Are Measles the New Red Scare?

[i]“Do we want to create a society of totalitarian medical rule where you don’t have a choice in anything that is dictated to you by the government and pharmaceutical companies? “[/i][b] ~ Roman Bystrianyk[/b], in [b][i]“Measles: The New Red Scare”[/i][/b] in [b][i]“Foreign Policy Journal” [/i][/b][c=#BF0000] https://tinyurl.com/yakeas45[/c] See also [i][b]“Why Measles is the Quintessential Political Issue of Our Time”[/b][/i], in [b][i]The New Yorker[/i][/b] [c=#BF0000]https://tinyurl.com/y4oqnhg3[/c]

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SheikYerbouti · 51-55, M

Anti-vaccination types are looney.

beckychandler · F

@SheikYerbouti The authors of these two articles are hardly loons, and these well reasoned articles are hardly loony.

And measles are hardly the Black Death.

SheikYerbouti · 51-55, M

@beckychandler They use to kill about 2 million annually before the vaccine.

The "doctor" who started all this has been discredited.

Frank52 · 70-79, M

@beckychandler Absolutely right. It is not the Black Death. Clearly you understand epidemiology. It does kill kids though.

MarkPaul · 26-30, M

@SheikYerbouti Even more reason to believe him even more.

beckychandler · F

@Frank52 All diseases kill but measles has a very low death rate. Eliminating it is not worth having a totalitarian state which does things like prohibit unvaccinated kids from being in public.

SheikYerbouti · 51-55, M

@MarkPaul They're as bad as the sovereign citizen screwballs.

MarkPaul · 26-30, M

@beckychandler Yeah, that's as good a reason as any to do something against your self-interests.

MarkPaul · 26-30, M

@SheikYerbouti And, possibly more reckless.

Shade70 · 51-55, M

@beckychandler The author of the first link has been soundly repudiated on this matter. The source for it, FPJ, is a known psuedoscuence site that serves as a signal magnifier by republishing material from less reputable and even fringier locales on the internet. Maybe that doesnt qualify for loon status, but it definitely isnt a recipe for credible information that one ought to base life decisions around.

SheikYerbouti · 51-55, M

@MarkPaul The guy who said that vaccines caused autism has been discredited, and nowhere else has any proof emerged supporting this theory. Yet, so many believe in some type of sinister conspiracy.

MarkPaul · 26-30, M

@SheikYerbouti They most likely hunt for sinister conspiracies to give their lives meaning.

SheikYerbouti · 51-55, M

@MarkPaul It's some kind of confirmation bias. If it's on the Internet it must be true. Like the Flat Earthers, they won't believe no matter how much proof you show them. Really disturbing.

MarkPaul · 26-30, M

@SheikYerbouti Indeed.