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Vaccines - No man is an island

In 1963 the first measles vaccine was patented and released for the masses. Western countries have massively invested in campaigns to get people vaccinated. The consequence was, that measles was almost eradicated in parts of the world with high vaccination numbers.

Somewhere during COVID, when people had little to do during lock down, anti-vax narratives started flooding the datasets that we all live in. A percentage of people that suddenly got interested in vaccination started doing their own research. A segment of those, got hooked on the sensationalist narratives of global elites pumping you full of harmful chemicals. The consequence is that a segment of the population "delayed" or just "denied" the vaccine during this periode.

[quote]Measles is one of the most contagious infectious diseases, and also one of the most preventable: two doses of vaccine in childhood is 97% protective. WHO estimates that some [b]61 million doses were missed or delayed in 2021. In 2022, about 83% of the world's children received one dose of measles vaccine by their first birthday – the lowest proportion since 2008, when the rate was also 83%.[/b][/quote]

Ideas like: extreme forms of skepticism and ultra-individualism [i](With libertarian greatest hits like: I do what I want; You can't tell me what to do; Leave me alone; I know what is best for myself; Stay off my lawn; Only I know what is good for me; I'm smart enough to make my own choices; ...)[/i], are slowly coming home to roost.

[quote]The WHO's most recent global numbers, released in November, reveal that [b]measles cases increased worldwide by 18% to about 9 million, and deaths rose 43% to 136,000, in 2022 compared to 2021[/b]. Some 32 countries had large, disruptive outbreaks in 2022, and that number ticked up to 51 in 2023, Dr. Natasha Crowcroft, WHO's senior technical adviser for measles and rubella control, told NPR.[/quote]

The measles as a vaccin, is usually injected as a combination with protection for: the mumps and rubella. All these diseases have a new playing field to fester because a segment of the population has been thought to mistrust vaccinations. Something that worked for years without much pushbacks and had incredible positive results, is now suddenly a big societal issue. Our herd-immunity is being diminished purely because a small segment of entrepreneurs are making loads of money selling the gullible a conspiratorial narrative. From merchandise to books to revenue on social media sites getting payed for clicks and likes.

But as the ultra-individualist will find out... being a little Cartman can have great consequences on a societal level. [b]Because no man is an island.[/b]

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[b]SOURCE:[/b] https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/02/08/1229540182/its-no-surprise-theres-a-global-measles-outbreak-but-the-numbers-are-staggering
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Musicman · 61-69, M
Now with Biden opening the borders old diseases that we had gotten rid of are making their way back. What was that disease in the state of Washington that was just confirmed.
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
@Musicman I guess the immigrants are bringing in the diseases again. That's also a narrative that has been around for 100 years. It liberates the users of the narrative from their own personal responsibility by scapegoating an out group that they are hostile towards.
Musicman · 61-69, M
@Kwek00 That is what's happening. When you let that many people in without even a basic health screening you are going to have problems. 🤷‍♂️
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
@Musicman Man... During the COVID era, Trump proposed a migrant stop in 2020... there wasn't any screening demanded, it just had to stop because "COVID". At the same time, US citizens were still traveling outside the US, still coming back in. In 2022 a segment of the same people that cheered at measures that targeted immigrants during 2020, got pissed off because Canada enforced it's national mandates and that they felt that their personal freedom was limited by the Canadian government that was just enforcing it's laws on it's territory.

And why all these people tribalistic instincts are playing out in real time, a segment of them stopped using vaccines. And now that the consequences are becoming visible they are still pointing to migrants because there is ZERO self reflection. Because for some convenient lazy reason, this segment can't do anything wrong. They are the self labeled "good guys" in a story that needs scapegoats too blame the consequences of their own actions on.
Musicman · 61-69, M
@Kwek00 Right! If you just want to make this a Trump hate post then just say so. Don't ask for conversation. Here is one for you.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M
@ElwoodBlues Hey Mr. "Biden-opened-the-borders". It's not about Trump, it's about how segments of the population behave. Closing the border to immigrants, isn't the solution when every US Citizen can still travel and come in. The reaction to Canada also had nothing to do with Trump, most of these figures were just allied to the Trump movement. Anti-vaxers, are also not all republican partisans.

But segments of the population seriously need their scapegoats to make themselves feel good about the consequences of their own behavior. That this coincides with populist-narratives of homogeneous groups of "good honest people" fighting against a homogeneous group of internally "evil elites", just makes the appeal towards populists stronger.

And yes, these tendencies of blaming out groups for consequences of the shortcomings of the in group are often rooted in instinctive tribalistic tendencies.
Musicman · 61-69, M
@Kwek00 Sadly I am sure you actually believe what you are saying. 🤦‍♂️
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
@Musicman I guess bacteria and viruses are selective and don't infect the citizens of the country that travels back from where ever they came.
Musicman · 61-69, M
@Kwek00 You lost me when you brought Trump into it. We just can't have a reasonable conversation with him involved.
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
@Musicman Why not?