5 new cases of the measles in Los Angeles

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/05/5-new-cases-of-the-measles-in.html

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I keep waking up in the wrong century…

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the new patients are four county residents who were “exposed to an unimmunized, international visitor who was infectious with measles while in Los Angeles County.”

“So, I have teh Measles. Maybe it’s time for a vacation.”

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Obviously measles isn’t a big deal because my parents, grandparents and great-grandparents didn’t die of it when they were children.

(/s but pretty much the exact argument I’ve heard anti-vaxxers make…)

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The moron tourist was tooling around an area of town with a higher-than-average number of anti-vaxxer families; not the conservative religious fundie types, but affluent Goopy New Age leftist ones. I hope Jenny McCarthy is quaking in her Manolo Blahniks.

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