Ooh, I like that! Except, now I can’t use it. Darn it!
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I can quite literally use that for the chicken pox vaccine. I had CP as an adult (7 days of hell!) and literally have the scars to prove it. While they have diminished over time, I can point to them and say, “See that crater? Chicken pox. See this one? Chicken pox. etc, etc, etc, go get vaccinated.”
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Samoan authorities have blamed low coverage rates in Samoa in part on fears caused last year when two babies died after receiving vaccination shots, according to local media reports.
The country’s immunization program was also temporarily suspended. The deaths were later found to have been caused by medications that were wrongly mixed.
eta: Nov 18, 2019 Samoa officials declare emergency in measles outbreak that has killed 6
In two weeks, from 6 to 50+ deaths.
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Regardless of what the know-nothings want to be true, measles is a bitch. It kills kids, adults, old folks. It does not care if you eat organic foods or avoid gluten or tune your chakras or steam your vagina, it kicks ass. Even if you don’t die, your risk of dying of something else goes way up, and you will wish for death for a couple weeks. Vaccines are easy. Measles is not.
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"Most notably, the deaths were picked up by the Children’s Health Defense, run by the prominent anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. As The Washington Post noted, Kennedy’s organization spent months highlighting the deaths on Facebook while questioning the safety of the MMR vaccines. But the organization did not correct the posts or update its audience with information regarding the nurses’ error and convictions.
Kennedy visited Samoa in June, appearing alongside local anti-vaccine advocates and even a staff member of the US embassy. In November, Kennedy’s organization sent a letter to the Samoan prime minister, encouraging officials to question the MMR vaccine. Kennedy peddles the false and dangerous claim that vaccines are linked to autism, despite the fact that numerous scientific studies have robustly debunked the baseless claim."
Deaths on his hands. Not that he will ever accept that, of course.
Emphasis mine. Antivaxxer in chief…
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140k people dead last year. Mostly young children. And this is not yet to a level that causes vaccine deniers to rethink their positions.
And some just keep digging.
Truly truly I hate this timeline.
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Look, whoever invents the time machine and travels back to kill Hitler, can we make a stop along the way and get Wakefield, too? End of the day, their body counts might be close to the same.
The downside of not believing in Hell is that fuckers like him won’t be in it.
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I’m in.
Still soldering flux capacitors, though. And looking to source a cheap Delorean.
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I don’t think he’s one of the jet-set anti-vaxxers. Pity.
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Just another day, right?
(Edit because I left one out…)
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Regarding Polio vaccines, there is a good reason that the Pakistanis dont trust them. Fool me once and all that.
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Among the many sins of the CIA, I feel this one hits very close to home. However, the “sterilizing little Muslim boys” conspiracy theory extends far beyond Pakistan, unfortunately.
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Samoa is making sure everyone is vaccinated
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Antivaxxer melt down coming…
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Hey, now. Bleeding from your eyelids and fingernails and puking up blood is a small price to pay to prevent a nonexistent risk of autism!/s
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A little bit of good news to round out the year:
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From mice on to human trials, good.
If this is successful, let’s see how consistent the anti-vaxxers are.
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Early results on monkey trials, probably not directly applicable to humans yet, but it is been a very long time since there has been any progress on tuberculosis, so there is that:
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/02/792976293/researchers-have-found-a-way-to-improve-tb-vaccine
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