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.
Pro death party strikes again
They really are.
Check out these sweet thangs on black friday 2026…
As much as there is to say about Kennedy, vaccine conspiracies started decades before his tenure, and there are many villains to that story.
I think it’s counterproductive to pin it on him.
there are many villains to that story.
But none of these assholes were United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Have the country you voted for assholes.
Unfortunately, viruses don’t follow geopolitical boundaries. The extremely far right’s vaccine hesitancy will put the world in danger and cause a resurgence of various diseases, alongside emerging threats, such as fungal infections.
Trouble is half of us voted against it and still get to suffer the consequences. I’m not having fun anymore.
It wasn’t enough to stop or even curtail this fascism even a little bit.
our country has the following factions:
- death cultists
- sensible people
- sports team voters
- folks who think themselves sensible when they vote for neither party
- folks who can’t tell the difference between all the other factions
the death cultists got their candidate on the ballot as one of the sports team candidates and won. they will now kill everyone else in service of their death cult
It feels like a bad game of D&D where the DM keeps heavily pushing the evil path, despite player choices not choosing that path.
and the DM is Larry Elison
“Look you can return the artifact either Chuck Schumer or the Golden King of Racism. If you return the artifact to Chuck Schumer he will eventially yeild the artifact to the Golden King of Racism after several weeks of commenting how hard his decision was.”
Trump was the result of decades of voting farther and farther right while catering to middle class white America. We got what we deserved
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.
Poor too. They need you to be poor.
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.
Isn’t dead children like the #1 totally acceptable sacrifice in the US at this point?
Sandy Hook made that ABUDANTLY clear
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.
So you’re telling me, as it’s spreading across the US, as it has been doing for months now, that it’s currently still considered eliminated? Cool. Just like how visiting the CDC’s covid page shows it hasn’t been updated since late Sept. Everything is cool.
COVID still at #5.
Alzheimer’s #6 so the solution was end all Alzheimer’s research via NIH in 2025.
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RFK stands for Rubella For Kids!
rubella fried kids.
Thanks RFK Jr, you cunt.
Waiting for the day something like Cancer will be downplayed by these parasites.
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.
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.
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Maybe you could just eat or smear some ivermectin on it. Or pray that it goes away.
Or do some pullups at the airport. The health effect is maximized if you wear jeans and no shirt.
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If only we had some injection to prevent this.
Maybe we could weaken the virus or kill it, so it just floats around until the body attacks it…
Then the body could learn how to defend against it? Are we on to something here? Maybe we call it…a MAGAination?
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
IDK who downvoted you but this is just republicans on every issue today as well as the entire media sphere that’s backing them.
I am quite sure that prefacing a sentence will soon become a a mark of notoriety,
Another thing we aren’t gonna do anything about!
Something needs come through and kill all the antivaxers, so it might as well be this.
Unfortunately, it’ll just kill their kids
And people in the community that they infect while walking around as contagious carriers.
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Ah but RFK knows fire kills measles, COVID and cancer.
