Federal health officials have linked two massive US measles outbreaks, confirming that the country is about two months away from losing its measles elimination status, according to a report by The New York Times.
Great. Huh?
After our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents vaccinated their children to eliminate this terrible disease from our country, a bunch of people have decided that the previous generations had it all wrong.
Vaccination is bad.
Better to contract the measles and perhaps help create an epidemic rather than do something that nearly all Americans have been doing for nearly 60 years.
We live amid dummies, fools, and selfish monsters. Some actually dismiss the measles as a disease not worth fearing.
But complications from measles infection can include:
- blindness
- encephalitis (an infection causing brain swelling and potentially brain damage)
- severe diarrhoea and related dehydration
- severe breathing problems, including pneumonia.
But these complications are rare, so why not roll the dice?
Also, if a woman contracts measles during pregnancy, this can be dangerous for the mother and can result in her baby being born prematurely with a low birth weight.
But since only about 4% of Americans are pregnant at any one time, the odds are once again low.
Roll the rice.
Complications are most common in children under 5 years old and in adults over 30. They are more likely in children who are malnourished, especially those without enough vitamin A or with a weak immune system from HIV or other diseases.
Again, these children make up the minority of the population, so fear not. Most will be safe.
Roll the dice.
Measles also weakens the immune system and can cause the body to “forget” how to protect itself against infections, leaving children extremely vulnerable to other diseases
But most kids will contract the measles and be fine, so why vaccinate? Most will be perfectly okay.
Before the measles vaccine, about two million children globally died of measles every year.
In the United States, before the measles vaccine, measles resulted in:
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Tens of thousands of hospitalized children
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Thousands of children with lifelong neurological injuries
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Hundreds of children dying each year
But those numbers were relatively small compared to the overall population, so it probably won’t affect your kids.
It will absolutely kill other people’s kids. Other people’s kids will also go blind and suffer brain damage, but probably not your kids.
So roll the dice.
You’ll probably be just fine.
Your parents, grandparents, and maybe your great-grandparents vaccinated their children so we could all be safe from this disease, but today is different.
Every idiot for themselves.
The collective good is no longer relevant if it stands in the way of your own preferences, predilections, and conspiracy theories.
One adult and two children have died from measles in the United States in 2025 — the first deaths by measles in years.
But they weren’t your kids, so fear not.
Roll those dice.
Many children will die because they will lose those rolls, but probably not yours.
