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'It will take off like a wildfire': The unique dangers of the Washington state measles outbreak
[...] "You know what keeps me up at night?" said Clark County Public Health Director Alan Melnick. "Measles is exquisitely contagious. If you have an under-vaccinated population, and you introduce a measles case into that population, it will take off like a wildfire."
[...] Anti-vaccination activists, for their part, contend that state officials are twisting facts to stoke public fear.
"It shouldn't be called an outbreak," Seattle-area mother Bernadette Pajer, a co-founder of the state's main anti-vaccine group, Informed Choice Washington, said of the measles cases, arguing that the illness has spread only within a small, self-contained group. "I would refer to it as an in-break, within a community."
[...] Clements eventually changed her mind, deciding to give her kids the shots after a doctor at a vaccine workshop answered her questions for more than two hours, at one point drawing diagrams on a whiteboard to explain cell interaction. He was thoughtful, factual and also "still very warm," she said.
[...] In Washington, state lawmakers supporting tougher vaccine requirements are mounting their second effort in the past three years to make it harder for parents to opt out of vaccinations.
(Score: 2) by lentilla on Saturday February 09 2019, @03:38AM
It's no good being correct if people won't listen to you.
Unfortunate as it may be, oftentimes the "best" solution has to be negotiated downwards to second or third best to appease the fools, and from there it is merely a matter of sales and marketing. I don't believe the grandparent is asking medical professionals to change their advice - they are suggesting a change of approach. If we developed vaccines with a hint of organic free-trade-sourced patchouli and that resulted in an uptake of vaccinations - well, so be it.
If you can't reason with fools... manipulate them.