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Sheril Kirshenbaum
Jayne 
🇪🇺🏳️🌈The USA where science goes to die 💀🤦
Gergovie
Michael BuschThe current version of vaccine denialism started in the UK 30 years ago, when Andrew Wakefield lied and tortured children for money.
It then spread worldwide.
See how Canada just lost its measles elimination status along with the United States.
I make this point because it is vital to understand the extent of the problem.
MidgePhoto@michael_w_busch @TCMuffin @Sheril
Wakefield currently lives, and I suspect still makes public appearances to unscreened audiences, in a country where a huge proliferation and poor control of guns is producing daily shootings.
And where gullible followers of advice he gave for personal advantage will soon be mourning dead children.
It isn't a risk I'd care to take.
Tinman
Kpl Klink
bewitchedmind@Sheril And as it's Fox News, you can't even be sure they don't count this as a "win".
Daniel M. Reck@bewitchedmind @Sheril Do we have a source link to this Fox News screenshot?
It isn't from their most recently published #measles story at https://www.foxnews.com/health/major-measles-outbreak-leads-hundreds-quarantined-us-county-officials-say where the host invokes #MAHA but still sounds a bit sceptical of the physician guest's recommendation to get the #vaccine.
If https://www.foxnews.com/category/health/measles is to be believed, FNC has published just 17 stories on this mess since it began earlier this year.
#vax #antivax #prolife #hypocricy #PublicHealth #USpoli #ScienceLiteracy
@bewitchedmind @Sheril Thanks to @ghouston we have the original source of the Fox News screencap at https://youtu.be/UNbPqtJV5w8?t=13s
Measles cases EXPLODE as vaccine rates drop across America
Martin Ruskov@bewitchedmind @Sheril they do use 2020 as a baseline. Not sure why, but I think using 2024 would show similar numbers
Axel van Bergen@mapto @bewitchedmind @Sheril
Ironically, 2020 may have been a good year (if you don't like measles) due to Covid-19. At least in Germany, measles cases were down by 85 percent from 2019 to 2020. It is quite plausible that the measures taken against Covid helped keeping measles down, too.
Therefore it can be assumed that 2020 was chosen because it makes the contrast to actual numbers look really bad.
@Axelotl @bewitchedmind @Sheril I deleted my comment because I saw others sharing timelines showing exactly what you say
https://m.cmx.im/@ilovemypotato/115716003379735133 and https://mastodon.social/@zygoteneverborn/115716767746409161
https://m.cmx.im/@ilovemypotato/115716003379735133 and https://mastodon.social/@zygoteneverborn/115716767746409161
当你平躺下来 :verified: (@[email protected])
@[email protected] Measles cases in the United States are currently at a genuinely serious level. However, this graphic is misleading because it frames the increase relative to 2020, when measles cases collapsed to just 13 due to COVID-19 lockdowns, reduced travel, masking, and disrupted reporting. By comparison, the U.S. recorded roughly 370 measles cases in 2018 and about 1,275 cases in 2019, which was the highest pre-pandemic year in decades. Current case counts are therefore high and comparable to past outbreak peaks, but not unprecedented when viewed against the broader pre-COVID historical context.(Data source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-measles-cases?time=2004..latest#all-charts)
Bruce Mirken@Sheril Tell your member of Congress: #ImpeachRFKJr
当你平躺下来 
@Sheril Measles cases in the United States are currently at a genuinely serious level. However, this graphic is misleading because it frames the increase relative to 2020, when measles cases collapsed to just 13 due to COVID-19 lockdowns, reduced travel, masking, and disrupted reporting. By comparison, the U.S. recorded roughly 370 measles cases in 2018 and about 1,275 cases in 2019, which was the highest pre-pandemic year in decades. Current case counts are therefore high and comparable to past outbreak peaks, but not unprecedented when viewed against the broader pre-COVID historical context.(Data source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-measles-cases?time=2004..latest#all-charts)
ZygoteNeverborn@ilovemypotato @Sheril
Y is logarithmic. Here, different scale.
source: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html
Quite different view.
Y is logarithmic. Here, different scale.
source: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html
Quite different view.
biddy_sue 🏳️🌈@Sheril yeah, but apparently there will be WAY less autism 🤣🤣🤣 😢
Juho Mäntysalo"Better dead* than autist" is quite the demarcation, even if there were a correlation between vaccines and autism, and not just between vaccines and healthy children.
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* Or in an iron lung, or otherwise paralyzed
Polly Kraisus@Sheril so Fox News is reporting on it. I wonder how they are framing it?
Linda Sgoluppi Artist@Sheril Sadly, it did. Quite simply, the people that caused this to happen, just DO NOT CARE. If those people are allowed into positions where their non caring impacts other people, (all those other than themselves) they need to be kept out of those positions. The greater failure is that they have not been kept out of those positions, especially now and especially, but not exclusively, in the USA.
#fediverse #mastodon
#fediverse #mastodon
hanktank61@hanktank61 @Sheril Ouch - scary.
@iveyline
caneToad 
Ⓥ Gregory Trolliet Ⓐ🔻 🇵🇸@Sheril This country is going to extinction.
🍀March Mastodoness🍀@Sheril "It is what it is." - Donald Trump about people dying from COVID.
@@Sheril didn't take long, did it?
Toni M.
Yora@Sheril This is no accident. This was deliberately planned.
Why the regime wants to kill its own supporters and kill the economy that enriches them, I really have no clue. But they are doing everything they can to annihilate their own country.
Why the regime wants to kill its own supporters and kill the economy that enriches them, I really have no clue. But they are doing everything they can to annihilate their own country.
DFX4509B (Joshua Mason)
Martin Rundkvist@yora
No, the MAGA crowd are genuinely incompetent. They just don't like educated people and their scientific claims.
No, the MAGA crowd are genuinely incompetent. They just don't like educated people and their scientific claims.
Rhondda
Alex von Kitchen@Sheril 2020 is a bad comparison year. That's about what you would expect from Fox, but you can find better sources
Anyway, this trend has been happening for a while, but the current administration is doing nothing to address the issue
(note: graph is 2025 up 7th July. I'm providing it here to show that 2020 is a bad comparison. 2019 is a better comparison year)
Krzysztof Sakrejda@Dangerous_beans @Sheril 2020 was a geographically restricted socially distinct religious population surrounded by an effective healthcare system (and we see how much damage that did). Currently we're seeing those kind of numbers across wider areas of two states with dysfunctional leadership. I wouldn't compare those, personally.
giuseppe leanzA@Sheril
No Great without a Rise
No Great without a Rise
Kostek Poland@Sheril How does it fit into the narrative "Make America great again"?
Maurizio 
Gazumi
Corb_The_Lesser@Sheril Republicans worked hard to revive the measles threat. They deserve all the credit for their achievement.
Der Haken@Sheril careful, the numbers given in the screenshot might be misleading.
If current CDC data are still trustworthy, there seems to be some kind of seasonal pattern in measels cases[1].
Measels cases seem to increase over time, but that seems to start in the early 2000s. Maybe vaxx-reluctance started to kick in then ... maybe because there hasn't been many outbreaks in the 90ies.
but still: the current admin is a problem.
xs4me2
Mike
Ω 🌍 Gus Posey@Sheril It does in a theocracy.
Gary McGraw@Sheril Republicans can't govern
Kevin RussellTrump pandemic. RFKed.
Miha Markič@Sheril If Trump was president there would be no measles. 🙃
The Dinosaur Dave@Sheril antiscience morons will burn the world to the ground, swim through miles of innocent peoples blood just to prove they are right, regardless of how demonstrably wrong they are.