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.
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.