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Measles outbreaks are spreading across the U.S., and the nation is likely to lose its status as a country where the disease is eliminated, something that infectious disease specialists say is directly related to Trump’s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

South Carolina this week quarantined at least 254 people after confirming more than two dozen measles cases in the state. It’s the latest in what has been the worst year for measles in the U.S. in recent history.

An outbreak in West Texas this year saw more than 700 confirmed cases since January and the deaths of two children. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been 47 reported outbreaks in the country this year.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
      7·
      18 days ago

      Kennedy is a huge part of the problem, but MAGA weaponizing/turning vaccines and healthcare into political topics unfortunately started long before anyone thought Kennedy would ever hold any position. Basically when Trump thought he may lose office his team tried to flip the script that the vaccines, he pushed for, and the lockdowns he started were somehow only because of Democrats. By 2022, near any conservative you talked to were saying Biden started the lockdowns and Trump never pushed for vaccines. And Kennedy wasn’t even in the picture yet for most people.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
        3·
        17 days ago

        Yeah. It’s incredible that people forgot the Trump year of Covid 19 so quickly; I think that single handedly changes how I perceive politics, and voters’ attention spans.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    19 days ago

    Why did Kamala and Biden do this to us? They left us a horrible medical situation and we are just trying to dig out from under it…

    -cheeto mcpedo, probably

  • AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world
    47·
    18 days ago

    1 person potentially dies if a vaccine with suspect evidence and we hear nonstop about how dangerous vaccines are. Children start dying of measles and it’s a risk they’re willing to take.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        17 days ago

        Yes and no, ostensibly everything the US does is to protect the children and keep them alive but the problem is our society is too broken to understand the value of children/human life and thus we must brutally and publicly sacrifice children to shock ourselves into a state of pseudo-empathy so that we can then extract the possibility of feeling deep emotions about protecting the children in a sense that spiritually absolves our guilt. So no, I am offended you would think that dead children is an acceptable sacrifice in the US! We feel a lot of emotions about dead children and you dismiss them all when you attack US culture that way, we feel terrible the entire time we are sacrificing children we promise you!

        You know it isn’t easy sacrificing children and feeling bad about it when you refuse to stop sacrificing children, it is a Sisyphean existence we commit ourselves to as a form of worship at the altar of greatness that this most godly of countries embodies.

    • Inucune@lemmy.world
      2·
      17 days ago

      Maybe we could weaken the virus or kill it, so it just floats around until the body attacks it…

      • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
        2·
        17 days ago

        Then the body could learn how to defend against it? Are we on to something here? Maybe we call it…a MAGAination?

  • nonentity@sh.itjust.works
    22·
    18 days ago

    A healthy, well educated population which feels safe and secure is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

    They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.