This is what happens when you assign the job of safeguarding the public health of a nation of 330 million citizens to a former heroin addict and current drug abusing, conspiracy mongering anti-vaccine quack and his fellow anti-science, anti-medicine conspiracy nuts.
Good job American voters -- this is the kind of shithole, third-world, disease-ridden country half of you voted for, and you know damn well which half of that voting electorate I refer to.
Link: SC measles outbreak has gone berserk: 124 cases since Friday, 409 quarantined - Ars Technica
"A measles outbreak in South Carolina that began in October is now wildly accelerating, doubling in just the past week to a total of 434 cases, with 409 people currently in quarantine.
Amid the outbreak, South Carolina health officials have been providing updates on cases every Tuesday and Friday. On Tuesday, state health officials reported 124 more cases since last Friday, which had 99 new cases since the previous Tuesday. On that day, January 6, officials noted a more modest increase of 26 cases, bringing the outbreak total at that point to 211 cases.
With the 3-month-old outbreak now doubled in just a week, health officials are renewing calls for people to get vaccinated against the highly infectious virus—an effort that has met with little success since October. Still, the health department is activating its mobile health unit to offer free measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccinations, as well as flu vaccinations at two locations today and Thursday in the Spartanburg area, the epicenter of the outbreak."
Measles had been officially declared 'eliminated' in the United States in 2000. Then along came the the anti-vaccine, conspiracy whackos with the former heroin addict son of a slain former US Attorney General, and nephew of a slain former US President leading the charge, I mean, how fucking bizarre is that, right?
Anyway, what's even more frightening is that these insane bastards want to eliminate ALL childhood vaccines if they can. And by God, they have already started, and where else of course but Florida. The Sunshine State's MAGA governor Ron DeathSantis (living up to his nickname again) and his witch doctor Florida Surgeon General Joseph LaDapo have opted their populace into being the guinea pig experiment into seeing what happens when you unleash previously eradicated/eliminated diseases worse than measles upon your unsuspecting citizenry:
Link: Florida plans to become first state to ban all vaccine requirements
That's one state I will be avoiding for the foreseeable future for traveling. Same would go with any other state that chooses to follow the same foolish and reckless route.
---TFG
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