The shock of the Kent (UK) meningitis outbreak and why it could happen here

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr’s nonsensical attacks on Public Health in general, and vaccines in particular, have set up our country for preventable diseases such as the meningitis B outbreak in Kent.

The Guardian reports:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/20/the-guardian-view-on-meningitis-in-kent-we-must-not-take-public-health-systems-for-granted

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Picklebobble2 · 61-69, M Best Comment

This outbreak in the UK is evidence (again) that short-sighted policy decisions to (supposedly) protect others by (try not to laugh here 🙄) 'allowing people to build their own natural defence' against common outbreaks of communicable diseases', rather than immunise everyone in communal settings,(knowing full well it's likely to happen again...as previous experience has shown us) clearly doesn't work.

Spend the money and vaccinate; test; trace; track, and do it properly.

KunsanVeteran · M

@Picklebobble2 Decades of data support immunizations. They are generally safe, effective, and cost effective.

Picklebobble2 · 61-69, M

@KunsanVeteran Especially when you have the evidence of what happens when you don't in front of you.

I don't know. Maybe this is all part of restructuring the cost of care.

Far easier to insist that students are responsible for themselves.
That way maybe universities would close their halls of residence and sell either the building and/or the land they're built on and pocket the money raised (after the tax people have had their cut of course) as government funding squeezes ever tighter.

It would certainly have private landlords rubbing their hands woth glee.

I notice nobody's making the same noises about prisons; hospitals; ports; airports...