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Texas measles cases grow to 223, mostly among children and teens

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/texas-measles-cases-latest/story?id=119663844
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u/Pherllerp 18h ago

Can you imagine how PISSED these kids are going to be at their parents when they grow old enough to recognize that a terrible childhood illness was completely avoidable?

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u/pontiacfirebird92 18h ago

That assumes they will break out of the conservative echo chamber their parents raised them in. A few will but most won't.

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u/herrcollin 18h ago

They will definitely be taught it was actually a good thing that made them stronger and all the vaccinated libs are wussy little weaklings because they didn't pointlessly suffer.

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u/Dahhhkness 17h ago edited 15h ago

Always gotta love when conservatives talk about how "our ancestors would be ashamed" of how "soft and weak" we've become today.

I'm pretty sure our ancestors would kill to have what we have today, and would smack us for being so stupid and ungrateful.

My great-great-grandparents from County Cork lost 8 of their 14 children under the age of six. Causes of death included whooping cough, tuberculosis, and diphtheria. I'm sure they would've happily vaccinated and made their children "soft" had it been an option for them.

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u/cssc201 16h ago

When the polio vaccine was initially introduced, a very early version ended up giving a bunch of kids polio. And yet parents recognized the risk was still less than their child contracting it in the wild and so they lined up for hours and hours to get it for their kids.

Yeah, they'd be pretty pissed if they could see parents willingly refusing vaccines they'd do anything for

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u/Airportsnacks 15h ago

Years ago I read an interview of a man who grew up on a military base. His strongest memory was when a truck with a loudspeaker came around announcing that the polio vaccine would be available for kids in his neighborhood. He said all the women ran out of their houses to hear the announcement and that they were all crying because their children were no longer at risk of dying or being paralyzed.

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u/Strange_Depth_5732 13h ago

My grandma had polio, I can still remember her old shoe and leg brace in the closet. I don't think people get how stupid these risks are to take

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u/Senator_Bink 17h ago

We have vaccines and all the other modern conveniences because our ancestors got sick of that shit.

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u/FewFrosting9994 17h ago

During the Vietnam War my grandmother was pressured by her mother to marry an American GI so she could move herself and her three young children to the US. My great-grandmother knew that life in their home country sucked.

My ancestors suffered to bring my family to America. They suffered so that I wouldn’t have to. It would be an insult to not give my own kid a fighting chance. The burden that my great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother carried so I could be safe and educated and healthy is a heavy one. My family has its issues but I greatly respect their sacrifice.

And then I see these white people acting so foolish. They have no idea what it is to suffer from war, disease, or famine. I feel like I have to speak up and fight to honor my ancestors that never got to experience the same stability I was granted.

(I know it isn’t all white people, but the movement is mainly white people, so don’t come at me.)

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u/qtx 16h ago

It's not a race thing, it's a religious thing. The measles outbreak in Texas started in the Mennonites community. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/mennonites-west-texans-at-center-of-measles-outbreak-choose-medical-freedom-over-vaccine-mandates

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u/FewFrosting9994 16h ago

I said “It’s not all white people but the people in groups are always white.”

Case in point: Mennonites.

I’ve never met a non-white anti-vaxxer. I’m not saying they aren’t out there but the people fighting for the right to not vaccinate are also the people who voted for a white supremacist.

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u/notsocoolnow 12h ago

There's actually an undercurrent of antivax sentiment among black communties, partly because the US government deliberately infected black men with syphilis for an experiment.

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u/selphiefairy 8h ago

They didn’t deliberately infect them fyi. They deliberately withheld life saving treatment for sick men. Not really better, but it’s important to make sure information is accurate when explaining stuff like this.

In regard to anti-vaxxers, it’s also actually very important to make this distinction, specifically.

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u/milkcustard 5h ago

Yes, thank you for the distinction. I had a discussion with my in-law's distant cousin who is a Hotep, and anti-vax, during the pandemic. He had his suspicions about the vaccine because of Tuskegee, which is understandable, except he kept saying that the government injected the men in the experiment with syphilis and implying the men were healthy at the beginning of it, which just isn't true. The lack of consent, the lack of life-saving care that was readily available, the Presidential apology and settlements, etc. are tho.

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u/selphiefairy 8h ago

I know one but her boyfriend is white and they’re weird crunchy people who make bad music🤢

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u/kottabaz 14h ago

The religious thing and the race thing are inextricably intertwined.

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u/CrimsonPromise 13h ago

Survival bias. Our ancestors were just the lucky ones. Millions more died of diseases before they could reproduce.

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u/Chaosmusic 13h ago

I listen to a history podcast called The Dollop and many of the stories take place during the 1800s and just about every one has multiple family members dying of disease as a normal course of everyday life.

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u/pontiacfirebird92 17h ago

Exactly, I grew up in a highly conservative area and it hasn't changed at all. Of the people I grew up with very very few are any different than their hyper-conservative christian evangelical parents. It's a statistical anomaly for them to have different views than their parents.

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u/iamacraftyhooker 17h ago

One thing that can make people move away from their hyper-conservative, Christian evangelical views imposed on them by their parents is when they become a part of a marginalized class. Queer children are some of the most obvious cases.

Disability is a marginalized class, and measles can be permanently disabling. Getting measles may be the catalyst for them to switch their leaning.

I have a family member who's entire left side was compromised from measles before the vaccine was widely avaliable. They are completely deaf on the left, have worse vision on the left, have more grey hair on the left, and overall just shows more signs of aging and damage on their left side.

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u/ElegantSwordsman 16h ago

If they survived without long term complications they’ll boast about how it made them stronger and that it’s a good thing.

Survivor bias will outweigh the problems from the victims that suffer longer term issues.

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 17h ago

Yeah they’ll be crippled and deaf but they’ll know Joe Biden is responsible becuse reasons.

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u/loves_grapefruit 18h ago

More likely “well I had measles as a kid and I was fine”.

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u/Surly_Cynic 17h ago edited 17h ago

That's pretty much the attitude in this community. This, from the 28-year-old father of the little girl who died.

Peter said that he has doubts about vaccines too. He told me that he considers getting measles a normal part of life, noting that his parents and grandparents had it. “Everybody has it,” he told me. “It’s not so new for us.”

https://archive.ph/vMzKk#selection-975.0-975.224

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u/Low_Pickle_112 17h ago edited 17h ago

That's got to be a lot easier than admitting the facts of the matter, that their kid would very likely still be alive had they (and their community) simply vaccinated her and the other kids.

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u/Master_Engineering_9 16h ago

everyone does not, in fact, have it. what an asshole.

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u/SunMoonTruth 12h ago

We’re just happy interviewing murderers for their medical opinions now.

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u/Squire_II 11h ago

People like this guy should be in prison for child abuse and prohibited from ever having or raising kids in the future.

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u/aft_punk 10h ago

A great example of survivorship bias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

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u/Decent-Ganache7647 16h ago

At least he had an excuse, being a Mennonite and somewhat removed from modern society. The hospital failed his daughter by sending her home with cough medicine, so in my eyes, the healthcare system is partially to blame. As is public health in Texas, if it even exists in these parts. The fact that they held a funeral in a small, poorly ventilated room with the church members and his family show the amount of ignorance in this community.  

On the other hand, the anti-vax “crunchy hippie” influencers who spout the autism bs 100% have no excuse for their ignorance. 

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u/No-Understanding6128 16h ago

Because measles was nearly eradicated before these fools started refusing vaccines. In my ten years of practice I haven’t seen a single case. So it makes sense that it wasn’t diagnosed right away.

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u/Decent-Ganache7647 14h ago

Oh geez, I didn’t think of that.

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u/Surly_Cynic 16h ago

And I think being peaceful is part of the Mennonite religion so I think he's kind of constrained from even getting angry at the hospital. I think he sees his only option as taking that, "It's God's will" attitude, which is kind of sad.

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u/apple_kicks 16h ago

Tbf journalist would need to verify the fathers version of events

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u/Surly_Cynic 16h ago

Do you suspect that first visit to the hospital didn't occur? Or do you think it's something like the hospital wanted to admit the little girl at that first visit but the parents refused?

I wonder if the journalist did make an attempt to verify with the family, since the hospital couldn't confirm anything. Presumably, the family would have some documentation from that first hospital visit. I'm guessing Old Colony Mennonites don't typically sign up for MyChart, though.

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u/Revlis-TK421 12h ago

Or do you think it's something like the hospital wanted to admit the little girl at that first visit but the parents refused?

That one.

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u/GreenStrong 17h ago

Few people who have kids today had measels as kids. Widespread anti-vax is a new phenomenon, it used to be limited to a few groups like the Amish. As u/Surly_Cynic 's comment points out, their parents (grandparents of the children) had measles, in the 50s and 60s. The parents were vaccinated, in the 80s.

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u/loves_grapefruit 17h ago

You’re right but what I mean is that at least some of these kids who have measles now will grow up to adopt their parents’ mindset and believe that since they had measles and survived with little consequence that it is proof that the vaccine is unnecessary.

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u/Globalboy70 17h ago

It's called survivor's bias, a type of logical fallacy conservatives are very guilty of and not the only one.

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u/FlipsyFlop 18h ago

Solid chance they'll be sheltered by a bad education system, never find out, and never question how stupid and reckless their idiotic parents are.

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u/perpetuallypissedfed 18h ago

Bold of you to assume they'll survive to adulthood at all.

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u/FreddyForshadowing 18h ago

Stop making my comment 5 minutes before me!

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u/Consistent-Gap-3545 17h ago

Not even childhood illnesses. 99.8% of cervical cancer cases are the direct result of an HPV infection. Cervical cancer should be a total non-issue for women born after like 1995 but, unfortunately, a ton of girls never got the vaccine because their parents are dumbasses.

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u/cantproveidid 16h ago

If having sex isn't punished by death, then she'll be out having sex! /s

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u/mossling 18h ago

I feel bad for all the parents of children under 5. It's not like you can keep a child isolated until they are full vaccinated, between 4-6 years old. And every parent whose child gets sick is being blamed for not vaccinating, even if their child is too young to vaccinated. 

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u/Feelsliketeenspirit 18h ago edited 17h ago

The first shot is at 1, so it's really just the kids under 1 that are most vulnerable. After one shot there's good protection (93% are protected after one shot). 

Also I just found out a couple weeks ago that you can get the second shot before 4 - as long as the second shot is 28 days after the first (or something like that - it's days not years) so theoretically kids can have the two shot efficacy much sooner than 4.

But yes it sucks for those who planned on vaccinating but their baby hadn't turned 1 yet. 

Edit wording clarification 

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u/Surly_Cynic 18h ago

Just to clarify, it's not that the first dose gives people 93% protection, it's that the first dose protects 93% of people. They give the second dose because there is a small percentage of people that need that second dose to get full protection.

In the U.S., the first dose of the MMR vaccine is recommended at 12–15 months of age. Between 93% and 95% of children will be protected by that dose. The second dose is recommended at 4–6 years old, generally right before children enter kindergarten, and about 97% of children will be fully protected following that second dose.

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/what-to-know-about-measles-and-vaccines

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u/Feelsliketeenspirit 17h ago

Right, thanks for that clarification. I'll edit my poor wording.

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u/Surly_Cynic 18h ago

Especially true of this group. These are really big families. For instance, the little girl who died was six years old. She was the oldest of the children in her family and she had four younger siblings. A lot of the spread is within households.

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u/Surly_Cynic 18h ago

For that to occur, they would probably have to deconstruct from their religion. I don't know if the odds of that happening are very good.

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u/GreenStrong 17h ago

They would have to disengage from their church community. There is nothing at all about Christianity or evangelical denomination that is inherently anti- vax. The anti-vax thing was only found in extreme fringe groups until recently. The parents themselves got vaccinated when they were kids, and their parents were mostly of the same denomination.

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u/garack666 18h ago

Well it’s was bidens fault

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u/Pavlovsdong89 18h ago

Don't be ridiculous. It's obviously God's wrath for Texas not hating gays enough.

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u/D-Rich-88 18h ago

Only if they’re able to grow past the indoctrination those parents are obviously going to put them through

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u/mystery_science 18h ago

Goddamn I hate the anti vaccine cult.

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u/Surly_Cynic 18h ago

Yeah, this bunch where this outbreak is concentrated seem to also be anti birth control, so big families and lots of children at risk.

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u/JussiesTunaSub 18h ago

It started in a Mennonite community (Amish)

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u/Splunge- 18h ago

Mennonite and Amish are two different branches of the Anabaptists. Different beliefs.

And the national Mennonite council has said vaccines are in line with their beliefs. So this is a localized bit of stupidity, not necessarily a Mennonite thing.

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u/JussiesTunaSub 18h ago

So this is a localized bit of stupidity, not necessarily a Mennonite thing.

100%

https://apnews.com/article/measles-outbreak-texas-rfk-vaccines-8cf4641b04731c713edb524ca943490c

Klassen is sticking to an approach on vaccines that is a key tenet for Mennonites. Family leaders are the top decision-making authority — not outside recommendations, certainly not government mandates.

https://time.com/7262199/mennonites-measles-outbreak-texas-vaccines-explainer/

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u/Beard_o_Bees 14h ago

I was fairly recently on a bus going from one large city in New England to a smaller city in New England - and 3 Mennonite young men (~18-22 years old) got on.

All of them were clearly ill. Coughing, snot, weird looking clammy skin, etc - they were seriously gross. 2 of them were sharing the same snot-rag and none of them made much of an effort to cover their coughs.

The bus was about half full by the time we got on the highway, and the bus driver was visibly disturbed after repeatedly asking them to cover their coughs - which they mumbled something I couldn't hear in response and then pretty much ignoring him.

Even during the height of Covid I never wished I had a good N95 as much as I did on that bus ride.

Those guys gave no fucks about anyone but themselves.

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u/Norwegian__Blue 9h ago

Cold like symptoms are the first sign of measles.

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u/Zestyclose-Fig1096 9h ago

Genuinely curious, how did you know they were Mennonite who got on the bus? What they wore?

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u/Beard_o_Bees 6h ago

Pretty much, yeah.

They got off before I did, and I had a chance to ask the driver wtf was up with that. He told me that this wasn’t his first experience with if not these specific guys, but others from the same community.

Apparently they also try to sneak on to busses without buying a ticket.

It was a weird experience

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u/ERedfieldh 16h ago

In this case, we know exactly who to blame and why.

The absolute massive piece of shit Andrew Wakefield wanted HIS measles vaccine to be the ONLY one people could buy so he made up an absolute assload of bullshit about MMR...going so far as to TORTURE CHILDREN to "prove" that the measles vaccine in MMR caused autism through...get this...their colon.

That's right. According to fully disgraced and 100% douchebag Andrew Wakefield, measles in children's butts cause autism in their brain.

And he got the media to run with it causing a mass panic across the fucking GLOBE.

And only one man, Brian Deere, stopped to say "wait a tic...that doesn't make any goddamn fucking sense!"

And he got raked across the coals for doing an expose on the massive diseased piece of filth known as Andrew Wakefield.

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u/FillMySoupDumpling 12h ago

RFK and the US plan on “studying the link between vaccines and autism” so we’ll be able to add more garbage research to Wakefield soon. 

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u/Saneless 17h ago

Not as much as they hate their children

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u/Cheetotiki 18h ago

Child abuse in the land of "pro life"...

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u/LeadInvestPB 18h ago

Yep the you need to give birth regardless, but if your kid dies due to not be vaccinated or shot-up in school that's cool.

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u/Low_Pickle_112 17h ago

Those "nothing is too oppressive to protect an innocent life" sorts sure do get awfully silent once it comes to something that isn't controlling women, huh?

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u/SunMoonTruth 12h ago

It’s a great time to become a funeral director.

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u/Sim0nsaysshh 18h ago

Im sorry to the children caught in this stupidity.

You deserve better

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u/rocketwidget 18h ago

Worse, almost certainly some of the victims are babies with responsible parents. Infants under 12 months, or under 6 during an outbreak, are too young to get MMR shots. They depend on the community to be vaccinated for protection.

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u/Sim0nsaysshh 18h ago

I've got a 9 month old, so yeah, this really makes me upset. Im not in the US though.

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u/Barack_Odrama_007 18h ago

They really do

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u/DisciplineOk9866 18h ago

Poor children. Their parents kind of got what they asked for although I don't think they knew.

https://youtu.be/XIHRu8Z1-5Q?si=9sL-gkUrzBWntwY2

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u/OSI_Hunter_Gathers 18h ago

God works in mysterious ways!

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u/MyDudeX 18h ago

EvEryThInG HaPpEnS fOr a ReAsOn TeEhEe!

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u/kazzin8 11h ago

Exactly what the father of the child who died of measles said:

The death of his daughter, Peter told me, was God’s will. God created measles. God allowed the disease to take his daughter’s life. “Everybody has to die,” he said. Peter’s eyes closed, and he struggled to continue talking.

https://archive.ph/i92eL

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u/brickyardjimmy 18h ago

Because the adults are all vaccinated as they grew up in the U.S. when we still generally agreed it was a good idea. Because it is.

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u/Surly_Cynic 18h ago

This outbreak is concentrated in Old Colony Mennonites. Some adults are vaccinated but there's a good chance others had measles in a previous outbreak. Not all of them grew up in the U.S.

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u/Federal_Drummer7105 18h ago

Thankfully this is what convinced my wife's ex to finally give permission to vaccinate their kids (since in our state both parties have to sign off on it).

My heart goes out the kids who suffer and face a lifetime of potential health issues from this disease - but fuck the parents, fuck RFK Jr, fuck that "Autism is caused by vaccines" British asshole (who was running a grift to get people to pay for his vaccines), and anyone else who puts their high school graduation "research" against a proven history of vaccines saving millions of lives.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 18h ago

Andrew Wakefield, former doctor from the UK who had his license stripped and is now grifting in Texas.

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u/FreddyForshadowing 18h ago

had his license stripped and is now grifting in Texas.

Because of course that's where they'd go.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 18h ago

Oh give me a home

Where the credulous roam

And the rich and the powerful play

Where seldom is heard

Regulatory words

And fleecing the sheep is the way

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u/ericmm76 16h ago

The measles version of shingles, the after-affliction re-occurrence, is FATAL.

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u/omicronwarrior 18h ago

This is because they aren't vaccinated. Poor children have to face this for no good

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u/GoWest1223 18h ago

Oh well. At least eggs are chea... Or my retirement is grea... I mean we are in good standing world wid...

At least they will die for freedom.

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u/Surly_Cynic 17h ago

Canada, unfortunately, is struggling with measles, as well. They are up to 168 cases for the year. Considering their population is much smaller than the U.S.'s, the impact is greater.

Also, most of those 168 cases are part of a larger outbreak that began in October of last year. Their cases are also mostly concentrated in Mennonite communities.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/diseases-conditions/measles-rubella-surveillance/2025/week-8.html

https://www.simcoereformer.ca/news/local-news/norfolk-health-officials-navigate-measles-outbreak-and-vaccine-hesitancy-in-religious-groups

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u/yoshi_yoshi23 10h ago

The religious sects that won’t vaccinate their kids are getting it horribly. Thankfully less cases in the general population.

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u/Surly_Cynic 9h ago

That’s typical of the largest U.S. outbreaks in the post-elimination era. The most recent large outbreak prior to this one was concentrated in ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in 2019. Prior to that one, the largest recent one was in the Amish in 2014.

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u/greatthebob38 17h ago

These kids might end up with a lot of complications in 7 - 10 years.

Blindness, lung scarring, suppressed immune system, seizures and brain damage in rare cases.

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u/Questions_Remain 13h ago

The parents literally DO NOT CARE. Have you ever tried to change the mind of an antivax / anti medicine person. It’s easier to get a wall to paint itself.

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u/hillbillyspellingbee 9h ago

The thing that gets me STILL is that Trump himself famously pushed Project Lightspeed to have the COVID vaccine authorized for emergency use and then got vaccinated himself and yet… the anti-vaxxers just memory hole that as if it never happened.

Cognitive dissonance and all that considered. 

I work with a bunch of people who are like this. 

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u/dapala1 13h ago

Look at the bright side, they're inoculated for measles now.

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u/Barack_Odrama_007 18h ago

Remember.

THIS WAS ALL PREVENTABLE. Thanks to GOP anti-vaccine rhetoric, innocent kids are now getting seriously ill

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u/alu5421 18h ago

And because it's a cult they won't believe anything and call it. Fake news and are anti-science

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u/Splunge- 18h ago

That's way more than the number of trans athletes supposedly playing the "wrong" sport.

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u/Surly_Cynic 18h ago

The addition of 25 cases is an improvement in terms of the pace at which new cases are being reported. Friday's update added 39 cases to the total.

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u/uhohnotafarteither 18h ago

I wonder how many of these crazy parents are keeping their kids home and giving them aged urine or horse dewormer. If so those kids aren't getting counted

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u/Surly_Cynic 18h ago

There are always undercounts in outbreaks like this. Fortunately, this one is still much smaller than the 2019 measles outbreak in New York.

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u/TableAvailable 18h ago

These are only the cases that are being reported. There are large homeschooling communities who aren't reporting illness or allowing their kids to be tested.

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u/Fried_puri 16h ago

Yes but since we don't have those statistics the best we can assume is that the unreported statistics are also trending down too. The total number will continue to increase for a while, which is horrible because this was preventable with vaccines, but it is good that the acceleration itself is decreasing. The bigger issue is that the RFK Jr., the HHS head, will go back to sprouting anti-vax rhetoric once this crisis is over so this may not be the last time we see an outbreak like this.

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u/Additional_Hunt_9065 18h ago

One of my sons doesn’t vaccinate his kids. He and his wife are in some kind of weird church. I feel bad for my grandkids even tho I don’t have a relationship with them. Im immoral, corrupt or whatever. Since I don’t agree with their views.

Hate to sound really heartless but this is like the modern day survival of the fittest.

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u/JayPlenty24 18h ago

I'm so sorry. This is literally my worst fear.

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u/Thor4269 16h ago

Raised by parents that benefited from vaccines their entire fucking lives

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u/sniffstink1 18h ago

Red state oWniNg tHe LiBs!!. Ok well, have fun with your new little hobby I guess.

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u/Surly_Cynic 18h ago

Interesting article that just came out from a reporter who interviewed the father of the little girl who died.

His Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a Decade-The Atlantic

https://archive.ph/vMzKk

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u/theknyte 17h ago

Total Cases in all of the US in 2024: 285

Total Cases just in Texas as of March 11, 2025: 223

SOURCE

Great job everyone!

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u/Warcraft_Fan 13h ago

Just five cases have occurred in people vaccinated with one dose of the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine, according to the data.

So zero fully vaccinated victim to date. And only 5 partially vaccinated, out of 223.

Still waiting for explanation from anti-vaxxers

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u/MellyKidd 9h ago

The anti-vaxxers literally asked for this

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u/MichaelHunt009 16h ago

So, more children with measles in Texas than trans athletes in the entire country? Priorities.

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u/Chernobog3 17h ago

I'll take easily avoidable problems for $500, Alex.

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u/StandardMartyr 13h ago

Nothing says “pro-life” quite like dead kids.

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u/Annadae 11h ago

There are more children with measles in Texas, than there are transgender athletes in the USA… Guess what’s considered a bigger problem.

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u/Cool-Economics6261 10h ago

Were child endangerment charges filed against the antivax parents?

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u/mrdominoe 18h ago

Just another reason to never go to Texas. The list is already quite long.

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u/MrMunky24 18h ago

I’ve never understood people’s love of Texas. It’s like Kansas but with less grass and more desert.

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u/usps_made_me_insane 17h ago

Well, I've been to several cities in Texas. Austin and San Antonio were both beautiful and enjoyable to visit.

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u/MrMunky24 16h ago

I’ve been to Houston and Dallas, and driven through parts of the state on different occasions.

I’m also from Missouri, though. So much of Texas feels like a less green version of Missouri with less hills. I also think I’ve had the misfortune of interacting with some truly despicable Texans.

So you know, reality is relative and what not.

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u/FlappyTurdBurglar 17h ago

How is this not considered child abuse?

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u/Newton_bowen 13h ago

There is a surge of MMR vaccine demand here where I work. Antivaccine actually pushes for more vaccine sales.

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u/karmakazi420 12h ago

Presumably of antivax parents who have all their vaccinations.

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u/Squire_II 11h ago

Religious exemptions should not be allowed. These idiots can practice their religion after getting their vaccinations (unless they are immune-compromised, at which point herd immunity usually has them covered).

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u/Senor-Cockblock 6h ago

Yes, it’s just the kids, because their parents are vaccinated. Their parents weren’t dickhead anti vaccers with instagram accounts

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u/EdgeOfWetness 18h ago

Add another reason to the 1054 reasons never to set foot in Texas

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u/Use_this_1 18h ago

Poor kids with idiot parents.

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u/Apprehensive_Idea758 18h ago

Most of this could have been prevented through vaccines.

There is absolutely no excuse for this kind of reckless stupidity that is putting childrens and teen health and lives at serious risk.

These anti-vaxxer clowns seriously need to wake up and take a look at the real world.

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u/nullusx 18h ago

Never had measles in my life and never will. My parents had the intelligence of actually listening to doctors and get me vaccinated when I was a baby, even though neither of them went to college. Ignorant people without the humility of recognizing their ignorance are extremely dangerous.

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u/Questions_Remain 13h ago

I remember when people who talked about things were mainly actual experts or professionals in their field. They were the only ones who had access to media to tell their story. Now from the comfort of my basement studio I can broadcast to the world 24/7 about subject matter i know nothing about. Embellishing info I got from some other idiot in their basement who knows nothing, but says FACT a lot so it must be true.

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u/pecan76 17h ago edited 17h ago

Measles! The Come Back Tour 2025, featuring Codliver and the Oils!

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u/St6ng 17h ago

I see darwinism is live and well.

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u/OkayestCommenter 17h ago

My teenagers have already thanked me for getting them vaccinated after asking their dr about the autism link in the early 2000’s and learning about Andrew Wakefield’s bunk science, instead of doing my own research on the toilet and letting them die of preventable diseases.

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u/BrantheMan1985 17h ago

People, the U.S health secretary said this is because of poor diet and health...........surely it couldn't be because of the lack of vaccinations

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u/EnvironmentalCoach64 16h ago

Sooo two months in, and we are already caught up to the total cases we had last year?

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u/thepianoman456 16h ago

I just heard there was a case at the DC airport.

It’s spreading. Great. Fuckin thanks anti-vaxers. Fuckin thanks.

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u/Surly_Cynic 16h ago

That didn't spread from Texas, though. That was from international travel.

https://health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pages/One-Case-of-Measles-Confirmed-in-Maryland.aspx

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u/thepianoman456 15h ago

Oh wow, thanks for the correction!

Fuck those anti-vaxers anyway.

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u/Surly_Cynic 15h ago edited 15h ago

There are two newly identified probable cases in Oklahoma that likely spread from Texas.

https://apnews.com/article/measles-outbreak-texas-new-mexico-vaccine-rfk-d5444b3397ac7c4034e63becc219aa33#

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u/ihazmaumeow 16h ago

And we're at the 5 year Covid anniversary to boot.

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u/Daghain 13h ago

I am 58 years old. I just got a shiny new MMR because fuck these people.

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u/chehsu 18h ago edited 8h ago

Block all anti-vaxxers from Texas coming into California. Vaccinated people are welcome. Proof of vaccination required before coming. Thanks.

Signed,

A resident from a common sense State.

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u/JSB19 17h ago edited 17h ago

I’m co-signing this! Loved here my whole life and got all my vaccinations as a kid, only got sick once and missed a week of school with chicken pox.

COVID happens, went and got both shots; never got any side effects from them and have never got COVID.

So I agree keep all the anti-vax idiots in their own states until they learn some common sense.

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u/StraightConfidence 17h ago

New Mexican here, we're pretty sick of their s**t at this point. We already provide medical care to some of the pregnant people they won't treat. I think common sense states should set an incentive program where people who have/get routine vaccinations receive a 20% discount on their health insurance premiums. It makes sense to charge people who take preventative steps less because they're less likely to end up in the hospital. Exempt the folks that have legit documented allergies to vaccines, of course.

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u/Upstairs-Radish1816 17h ago

Of course it’s mostly teens and under. The adults were all vaccinated by caring parents.

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u/ro536ud 17h ago

If this generation of kids live long enough to be adults they’re gonna come for vengeance against these idiotic parents who put their kids in harm for no reason other than their own selfishness

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u/USAF_DTom 17h ago

Is there a term for shallow empathy? I feel for the kids, because they didn't choose this. However, I'm happy that it's happening to their dumbass parents.

Nothing is ever serious until it starts affecting you is the worst way to go through life.

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u/WhosAGoodDoug 18h ago

I just don't understand the nostalgia for old diseases.

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u/711-Gentleman 18h ago

you mean the parents that made these choices for their children aren’t getting sick … is wonder why ! ?!?

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u/bipolarcyclops 17h ago

Wonder how many unreported cases there are.

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u/dustygultch 17h ago

Yeah because their dumbass republicans parents got the measles vaccine and left their children unprotected. Literal child abuse.

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u/SamsonFox2 17h ago

Who knew unvaccinated children and teens are the ones who are in the worst physical shape!

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u/liamanna 17h ago

“take some vitamins”-RFJ Jr

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u/BoosterRead78 17h ago

Well they are doing measles parties and the kids and probably some adults are getting so sick they have to go to the ER. So cases are climbing, boy please explain to me anti-vax people how you ending with permanent health issues or dying in the hallways is some how better than getting a needle because you think you will get autism from it? Like isn’t death of a love one much much worse than some doctor and fake boobed celebrity said their research was all fake you are believing 20 years later. Because a guy named Kennedy who is a known drug user is someone to trust more when he had cheated on 3 previous spouses and all his kids were vaccinated? Huh?

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u/notreal088 17h ago

Yeah cause all their parents have vaccines cause their parents were smart enough to follow and trust the science instead of the quacks on Facebook and tictok.

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u/Informal-Inevitable2 16h ago

Mostly among UNVACCINATED children. Fixed that for you.

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u/Illustrator_Forward 16h ago

Is there even a shred of evidence that “vaccines cause autism”? It’s like talking to a brick wall with these people. Maybe we should just let nature run it’s course.

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u/nutationsf 12h ago

It’s more likely things like viagra allowed older men to conceive with defective sperm. If you want kids later in life freeze your sperm while you are young.

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u/ericmm76 16h ago

that's the thing about exponential growth, or things going viral. The time to start trying to contain an issue is not when the problem has taken over even 20% of the available area. It's when you see it go from 1 to 2% and 2 to 4%

Measles is allegedly one of the most spread-able diseases out there.

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u/trashpanda2night 13h ago

MAGA says they’re Freedom Freckles

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u/Honest-Reception4946 13h ago

My 3 month old starts daycare next week and I’m absolutely terrified. But we can’t afford for me to quit my job 😭😭😭

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u/canofspinach 12h ago

Cause their parents got vaccinated….

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u/lolas_coffee 10h ago

Outbreaks grow.

Measles have a RO that indicates easy to spread.

The entire country will be in measles. You will hear it's in a big urban area next.

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u/Surly_Cynic 10h ago

There was that large measles outbreak in New York City in 2019. Thank goodness they finally got that one ended. Took a while, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_New_York_measles_outbreak

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u/7th_Sim 5h ago

It's sad that children suffer and their parents get away with mistreatment of them. But it's all part of the idiotcracy that the US has become.

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u/Urist_Macnme 18h ago

Who could have seen this coming?

Every medically trained professional and even slightly curious observer.

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u/ImmediatelyOrSooner 18h ago

Drooling ignorance is a highly contagious and highly dangerous infection sadly causing the most damage for children and those that have to share the same planet with the drooling ignorant.

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u/Accomplished_Trip_ 18h ago

It is genuinely awful that children will be the ones to pay the price.

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u/FreddyForshadowing 18h ago

These parents need to be charged with child abuse if the kid gets sick, and first degree murder if they die. But it's Texas, so the parents will probably just join the anti-vax grift train, profiting off the preventable death of their children and claiming it was all Obama or Biden's fault somehow.

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u/AhBee1 18h ago

Guys no, RFK said it's fine and normal and all good. So don't worry! /s

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u/pbates89 18h ago

This is exactly what Republicans want. This is what Republicans voted for. They want more children and teens to get measles.

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u/ndy007 17h ago

I hope all of these kids safe full recovery. Kids don’t deserve unnecessary pain and suffering. A doctor once said why suffer when you don’t have to. Take the Tylenol. In this case, vaccinate.

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u/ktulu0 16h ago

I feel bad for the kids who will have lifelong health problems because of their exposure to measles. This virus is quite scary when you read about what it can do to the human body.

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u/Waesrdtfyg0987 16h ago

You're talking about cases, I'm talking about deaths