She’s hearing from people sick with the virus, as well as their caregivers, that “measles is so much worse than what they expected.”
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@bicmay @inquiline About 12 years ago, at an info session for my child's preschool, the question of measles vaccines came up. "It's not, like, *Ebola*," said the school's director, who was old enough to remember polio and should have known better.
I approached her privately after the session was over, and politely mentioned that Ebola's total mortality was in the tens of thousands, while measles has killed millions. She bluntly refused to process this information.
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She’s hearing from people sick with the virus, as well as their caregivers, that “measles is so much worse than what they expected.”
“A number of them clearly said if they had known, they would have vaccinated themselves and their children against measles, but they didn’t realize how bad it was,” Nolen said.
Measles is 'worse than expected' in Utah, officials say
In southern Utah, a measles outbreak that’s been simmering since last summer is showing signs of wider spread.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)
#PublicHealth #measles #vaccines #immunizations #prevention #outbreak #utah #ChildrensHealth #PrimaryCare
@bicmay Wait ‘til they try polio.
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️ Social media platforms and their algorithms can put people in bubbles. Some of those Texas families whose kids died from measles didn't want to vaccinate their other kids afterwards.Vaccinating your remaining kids, after losing one, would be an admission that your decision to not vaccinate that child was responsible for their death. @bicmay @thriftwicker @mossyrua
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@bicmay Wait ‘til they try polio.
@bicmay and small pox.
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She’s hearing from people sick with the virus, as well as their caregivers, that “measles is so much worse than what they expected.”
“A number of them clearly said if they had known, they would have vaccinated themselves and their children against measles, but they didn’t realize how bad it was,” Nolen said.
Measles is 'worse than expected' in Utah, officials say
In southern Utah, a measles outbreak that’s been simmering since last summer is showing signs of wider spread.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)
#PublicHealth #measles #vaccines #immunizations #prevention #outbreak #utah #ChildrensHealth #PrimaryCare
@bicmay didn't we have whole ass childrens books about how shitty measles were
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@bicmay and small pox.
@WideEyedCurious @bicmay We're all hosed if that one gets out of the lab because they don't vaccinate for it anymore
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Are they saying no one told them?
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Are they saying no one told them?
@mossyrua @bicmay That’s the language they’ll use, because they lack both the personal awareness and self-critical honesty it takes to say “I devalued all the voices telling me that I was wrong and now I’m angry that these same voices weren’t able to convince me because I want it to be someone else’s fault”.
The underlying problem remains.
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She’s hearing from people sick with the virus, as well as their caregivers, that “measles is so much worse than what they expected.”
“A number of them clearly said if they had known, they would have vaccinated themselves and their children against measles, but they didn’t realize how bad it was,” Nolen said.
Measles is 'worse than expected' in Utah, officials say
In southern Utah, a measles outbreak that’s been simmering since last summer is showing signs of wider spread.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)
#PublicHealth #measles #vaccines #immunizations #prevention #outbreak #utah #ChildrensHealth #PrimaryCare
@bicmay We need a vaccine for idiocy.
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She’s hearing from people sick with the virus, as well as their caregivers, that “measles is so much worse than what they expected.”
“A number of them clearly said if they had known, they would have vaccinated themselves and their children against measles, but they didn’t realize how bad it was,” Nolen said.
Measles is 'worse than expected' in Utah, officials say
In southern Utah, a measles outbreak that’s been simmering since last summer is showing signs of wider spread.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)
#PublicHealth #measles #vaccines #immunizations #prevention #outbreak #utah #ChildrensHealth #PrimaryCare
@bicmay They don’t understand it because it’s been eradicated for many years. My sister had it. It destroys your immune system so at the same time she got the mumps and chickenpox, and I think it really did terrible things to her mind and body. I remember how bad it was. I was able to be vaccinated before I could get it.
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She’s hearing from people sick with the virus, as well as their caregivers, that “measles is so much worse than what they expected.”
“A number of them clearly said if they had known, they would have vaccinated themselves and their children against measles, but they didn’t realize how bad it was,” Nolen said.
Measles is 'worse than expected' in Utah, officials say
In southern Utah, a measles outbreak that’s been simmering since last summer is showing signs of wider spread.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)
#PublicHealth #measles #vaccines #immunizations #prevention #outbreak #utah #ChildrensHealth #PrimaryCare
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She’s hearing from people sick with the virus, as well as their caregivers, that “measles is so much worse than what they expected.”
“A number of them clearly said if they had known, they would have vaccinated themselves and their children against measles, but they didn’t realize how bad it was,” Nolen said.
Measles is 'worse than expected' in Utah, officials say
In southern Utah, a measles outbreak that’s been simmering since last summer is showing signs of wider spread.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)
#PublicHealth #measles #vaccines #immunizations #prevention #outbreak #utah #ChildrensHealth #PrimaryCare
@bicmay Stupid motherfuckers.
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She’s hearing from people sick with the virus, as well as their caregivers, that “measles is so much worse than what they expected.”
“A number of them clearly said if they had known, they would have vaccinated themselves and their children against measles, but they didn’t realize how bad it was,” Nolen said.
Measles is 'worse than expected' in Utah, officials say
In southern Utah, a measles outbreak that’s been simmering since last summer is showing signs of wider spread.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)
#PublicHealth #measles #vaccines #immunizations #prevention #outbreak #utah #ChildrensHealth #PrimaryCare
@bicmay A deadly disease that resets your immunity to other diseases is "worse than they expected"? You don't say.
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Vaccinating your remaining kids, after losing one, would be an admission that your decision to not vaccinate that child was responsible for their death. @bicmay @thriftwicker @mossyrua
@BenAveling @bicmay @thriftwicker @mossyrua ...aka "sunk-cost fallacy"
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@bicmay We need a vaccine for idiocy.
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@MissConstrue @bicmay I had measles as a kid, and my Mom locked me in the bedroom and turned off all the lights and drew the blinds because she was afraid I would lose my vision. I know I warned EVERYBODY I knew when this epidemic broke out to vaccinate as soon as they could. They just don't listen.
@thepoliticalcat @bicmay I’m in that weird cohort of GenX who didn’t catch measles, but also didn’t get the vaccine because it didn’t exist. By the time it existed, I was old enough that nobody brought it up until I got pregnant in my 30s. (Surprise, infertile one, thou hast sex on a solstice? Baby for you.) You can’t get the vaccine while pregnant, but thankfully her cohort was the “autism is caused by vaccines”, so up to that point, herd immunity kept me safe. While I was still in the hospital after birth, I got vaccinated , and then got shingles vaccine last year, because iirc it’s the same disease vector. (Everyone she grew up with was vaccinated, even my snake handler fundamentalist friends weren’t crazy enough not to vaccinate their kids.)
