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Isn't LA in California, which is one of the higher vaccinated states?
The infant contracted it before they could get vaccinated. Is this one of those rare incidents where correlation does not mean causation?
I'm just saying, let's get all the fact first before jumping on a hate train.
They almost certainly caught it from someone who was old enough to have been vaccinated but wasn't. If vaccination rates continue to decline like the current republican administration wants, more and more infants will contract measles even if their parents plan to vaccinate on schedule.
Exactly this, I was horrified when we had our first measles case in our state. Luckily, we were two days away from our MMR for our youngest. So, we just waited and didn't leave the house. But this right here, is why EVERYONE WHO CAN SHOULD BE VACCINATED. Those who can't will suffer, and they've done nothing wrong.
That's why if you make vaccinations optional they don't work even for people who do get the vaccine. This is an example of that - although the infant was too young, someone gave them measles because they weren't vaccinated.
Measles will be more prevalent this year and next year and next and so on because of idiots who hate science, women, and people who look different from them.
measles interferes with the dendritic cells that relays immunity, so you will be temporarily immunocompromised as a result.
COVID does it to a lesser extent, i had it last week the razor blade throat(i was vaccinatdd in may) and my atopic dermatitis suddenly turned off from that temporarily(like the rashes dried up like i was on strong steroids)
Measles is particularly dangerous and much more malignant than other diseases. Those that cannot be vaccinated rely on herd immunity for indirect protection. Measles requires a threshold of about 95% for effective herd immunity, and 90% is the critical threshold for it to be basically totally ineffective.
Measles is one of the most contagious diseases on the planet. It is airborns, lasts for hours on surfaces, has a 90% infection rate among those unvaccinated, and is contagious for 4-5 days both before and after physical symptoms develop.
The US is now down to about a 91% vaccination rate average thanks to anti-vaxxers. Meaning there are many places under that critical threshold where herd immunity effectively no longer exists. With anyone that cannot be vaccinated for whatever reason forced to roll the dice thanks to the idiots in society.
measles also causes orchitis, which can infertility in me, albiet temporarily. another nasty virus is chickenpox, which is severe in adults and can cause severe infection as well, instead of itchy poxes of children, its more likely to cause necrotic poxes.
the highly concentrated wealthy areas are ground zero. and the anti-vax movement was born in high end liberal households. this is GOOP central. this is where the problem began. and rich people with just the wrong amount of information are why it's been happening for so long. rich people don't learn shit, man. they can't be taught. if you don't make them feel like a very special and smart person for knowing the secret that the umbrella is why it rains, they don't even hear you talk.
it kinda started with jenny mccarthny in the early 2000s and then it bloomed from there to "left leaning groups" suddenly the covid made them all switch political parties out of convenience. Also funny in the midwest it also includes "chronic lyme disease" which isnt a recognized disorder(all fake based on pseudoscience" as the actual disease is treatable, and they also buy into the anti-vax movement as well.
How do you think the infant got it, from the measles fairy?
That virus was a gift from someone they came in contact with, so probably a family member.
And that family member was given it by someone else, who got it from someone else, who got it from someone else, and so on, and so on.
A whole long line of people that each bear responsibility for killing that child by not taking personal responsibility and getting vaccinated. Any one of them could have halted the transmission of the virus on that trajectory that lead to killing that child at that time. It only took one of them, but none of them did the responsible thing.
Most of those people didn't know that child, never met them, and are still blissfully unaware that their lazy selfishness killed a child. But that doesn't absolve them of responsibility. They killed a child.
the LA area, i feel like is more prone to anti-vax than nor-cal. early on in the pandemic people had a large number of cases there, and people were resisting mask and social distancing alot more than the bay area.