The city of Philadelphia is blaming the recent measles outbreak on people declining to get vaccinated and failing to follow quarantine recommendations, after its Department of Public Health confirmed at least four cases.
The city’s Department of Public Health has confirmed at least four cases and is investigating two other possible infections.
“Unfortunately, we are seeing cases of measles that have spread to vulnerable individuals including young children due to people declining vaccination and also failing to adhere to quarantine recommendations,” Cheryl Bettigole, Philadelphia’s health commissioner, wrote in a Thursday press release. “Philadelphia is a city where we believe in a duty to take care of each other.”
I’m all for personal choice but if you choose to not have your children immunised, you’re not the one who suffers.
The children and those who can’t receive vaccinations do.
Which is why this infuriates me. People are harming others so that in most cases they can gain clout with other conspiracy fuck nuts.
There’s no personal choice when you live in a community when your choice affects such community. You don’t have a choice not to follow the laws, etc. There should be no choice not to vaccinate your kids. Don’t want to vaccinate? Move to another country.
When it comes to public safety, personal choice ends when you choose to take part in society. These people are selfish scum who refuse to give a fuck until they are personally affected.
You don’t get to choose, there’s a reason schools required vaccinations.
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It’s not simply “oh they will die, it’s their fault.”
It doesn’t end there, they spread the diseases farther allowing them to mutate. It negatively impacts everyone around them.
Yes. They must be shunned for the good of society.
NYC has an island they set aside for this purpose for scurvy when they thought it was communicable, right?
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What do you mean “blames”?? No it is the cause of the outbreak… people not getting vaccinated are the cause. Period. We have decades and decades of no measles with people being vaccinated…then dipshits magically thought they new better and stopped…and now we have outbreaks. All evidence points to them …not some vaccine resistant strain.
Measles doesn’t seem to mutate easily and still be infectious since the vaccines clearly worked so well, but it’d be better if we didn’t try our luck by letting it grow in all these unvaccinated people.
The last thing we need is to have to re-vaccinate people if it does happen to mutate to evade our immunity. It’d be a disaster in today’s climate.
Misinformed, gullible, idiotic people, the article failed to add.
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There is probably measles parties…
Maybe we can invite them to a rabies/ebola party and lock the door.
Polio isn’t far behind. FUCK YOU ANTIVAX SCUM
Darwinism.
Big pharma undermined its own credibility by pushing opiates and other flawed medicines. The conspiracy theorists brought a tiny spark to a huge pile of debris and now there’s a tire fire burning forever. I hope the short term gains and wholesale loss of lives were worth it for these sick individuals.
You’re completely ignoring Andrew Wakefield, who started the entire false “vaccines cause autism” scare, and the politicization of both vaccines and science by (mostly) red-hatted idiots who get their “science” news from people and corporations who get money/power by deliberately lying to their viewers.
What the fuck does the opioid crisis have to do with vaccines???
Nothing of course. The point they made was that pharma has undermined its credibility by pushing opiates.
Which is absurd, they are so fucking different and the bottom line is BOTH are effective as FUCK. The bad thing about opiates is that they tried to get doctors to prescribe them more often.
Ain’t nobody going in for another hit of the vax again and again
Opiates are effective, as are vaccines. What a brain dead take you have here. Nobody is chasing the vax high, the vax is demonstrably effective.
The only people seeing the over prescription of opioids as a reason to doubt all medical science is a fucking MORON like yourself
