Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/12/26/vaccine-hesitancy-measles-chickenpox-polio-flu/

Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S.

An Ohio measles outbreak among unvaccinated children comes at a time of heightened concern about the public health consequences of anti-vaccine sentiment.

The Washington Post

@juddlegum

Social Darwinism in action. Leaning toward the macabre, perhaps Death itself will cost the Republicans enough support that the US can begin to behave like a civilized country again, and again allow the gov't to "promote the general Welfare".

@Threadbane Did you just literally "MAGA, but Blue!" right here in public? I'd be embarrassed if I were you.
@6of47
I'm just an old hippy (79) who's never voted for a Republican in my life. I'm a socialist, not a capitalist. I stand for equal pay for equal work, national healthcare, no more agricultural chemicals, no fracking, restore the Colorado River and stop growing lettuce and walnuts in the California desert. My not-so-radical Utopian ideas include ACTUALLY disarming the police and making it all-but-impossible to own a gun.
Anyhow, I'd bet my societal goals are FAR to the Left of yours.
@Threadbane @6of47 ahahahaha you what? You... are... based on your socialism you're a bit, sort of... racist? and a bit, like... the needless latin in your last message to us says a lot, dude

@12 @6of47 Ah. I see you are not merely a person who hates white people, but also an anti-intellectual.

To tell you the truth, your untidy thought processes seem to be hanging on the same nail now, and I'm bored: hate white people, hate the United States gov't (ie, the Constitution and the US Code of Law), hate education and people who have one (especially if they're white).
If you were white, you'd be a Deplorable.

@Threadbane @6of47 if we w-! You what, dude? We *are* white, or hadn't you noticed. We're just not a fan of theory-first communists who get all shouty about western civilisation. How about we, like, feed a homeless person, beat a fascist, give folks a place to stay, and then, like, do that a lot?

@12 @6of47
Western Civilization is synonymous with science. You seem totally oblivious to the Constitution being a product of the Enlightenment. It's a framework to "provide for the public Welfare" and rid government of the evil influences of religion and the Divine Right of Kings.

"our complaint is against white people! have you seen the dumb shit THEY do in the name of empire..."
You should have said, "WE do..." You hid your whiteness well.

@Threadbane @6of47 hid... our whiteness.... how do we "hide our whiteness". Also... you do realise that science existed in many, many countries that you would not class as "western"? And that science is kind of just inherently a thing that happens, no matter where you are?

@12 @6of47
The concept of mathematical proof and logic did not show up elsewhere. A reasonable approximation of pi did not exist elsewhere, nor did close approximations of the circumference of the Earth or the distance to the moon. Science might have eventually shown up elsewhere (it would be hard to argue not) but it DID show up in Ancient Greece.

You hid your "whiteness" by using "they" to disparage white people/Europeans, instead of "we". But I repeat myself.

@Threadbane @6of47 just because a bunch of crotchety old white cunts wrote it down and that became the version perpetuated by a bunch of other white cunts for the benefit of maintaining their power base...