The measles outbreak in Texas has now reached more than 150 cases, and for the first time in more than a decade, a child — unvaccinated — has died.
Almost all of the infected are children.
But the news is even worse.
Over the past decade, immunologists’ research has revealed that measles also destroys immune cells. As a result, even people who recover from the virus lose much of their immune memory and, therefore, the protection they had acquired from prior infections or vaccines against all the other childhood illnesses.
This leaves measles survivors more vulnerable to many other diseases for years afterward.
These victims may now face those childhood diseases, to which they lost immune protection, as older children, which puts them more at risk for complications.
Here’s the most frightening statistic of all:
Before vaccines were introduced, earlier measles infections may have been implicated in as many as half of all childhood deaths from all infectious diseases by destroying the body to defend against these diseases.
Measles is a Trojan Horse with bite. Not only might it kill you, but even if you survive, it’s going to kill all of your soldiers in the process, making it far more likely for you to lose the next war.
Oh, and in case you forgot:
Measles is one of the most transmissible diseases known to humanity, which makes it incredibly dangerous to unvaccinated children, which amounts to every single American child under the ages of four to six, when immunity from their booster kicks in.
Not only are unvaccinated children at risk, but also every vaccinated child who is waiting for their booster shot and the immunity it eventually confers.
So…
Thanks to a coalition of the stupid who refuse to vaccinate their children, outbreaks of one of the most transmittable diseases on the planet — which we had essentially conquered prior to the rise of vaccine stupidity — are on the rise, threatening the lives of every single American child under the age of four to six with illness, death, and the threat of future disease and death as well.
One child is already dead.
But fear not. The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert Kennedy, is in charge, and he has assured Congress that he is not anti-vaccine.
I know what you’re thinking:
“But Matt! During a November 2019 measles epidemic that killed 80 children in Samoa, Kennedy wrote to the country’s prime minister claiming that the measles vaccine was probably causing the deaths.”
True, but that was six years ago.
He’s probably reformed his thinking since then.
Yes, he believed something nearly every doctor, nurse, scientist, immunologist, and American parent knew was stupid, dangerous, and without factual basis — and was clear if you simply looked at any historical chart of infection — but that was six years ago.
I’m sure he’s more informed now, which makes him perfect for the Secretary of Health and Human Services:
A former idiot just a little while ago who claims to be less of an idiot today.
Trump only hires the best people.
