Measles growing in the U.S., largest number of cases reported since 1992

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/06/03/measles-growing-in-the-u-s-l.html

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If future historians of the American empire want to date the beginning of its fall into decay and darkness and superstition, the simultaneous return of measles and resurgence of right-wing populism over the past few years will be a useful marker.

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Somewhere on some social media platform there are scores of right wing assholes blaming Obama and the Libs for this.

Surely more tariffs will help this situation.

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Yea, I’m getting my booster soon. I found out I was given my one and only shot in the middle 60’s.

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Yep, I had a blood test done and found I wasn’t immune to measles. I’ve had one MMR shot now and the second one will be a few weeks.

The 981 cases in 2019 sounds really bad – because it is – but let’s spare some sympathy for Ukraine which has had over 52,000 cases of measles so far this year.

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