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Texas lawmaker says he's not worried about measles outbreak because of ‘antibiotics'
Texas state representative Bill Zedler says a resurgence of measles across the U.S. isn't worrying him.
Zedler, R-Arlington, is promoting legislation that would allow Texans to opt out of childhood vaccinations.
“They want to say people are dying of measles. Yeah, in Third World countries they’re dying of measles,” Zedler said, the Texas Observer reports. “Today, with antibiotics and that kind of stuff, they’re not dying in America.”
There is no treatment for measles, a highly contagious virus that can be fatal. Antibiotics treat bacterial infections and can't kill viruses.
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Texas Lawmaker not Worried about Measles because of ‘Antibiotics'
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 02 2019, @02:59PM (3 children)
Yes, the antibiotics do not kill the measles virus. No one ever claimed this was the case except the strawman in your head.
It is like you can't understand anything more complicated than "antibiotics don't kill virus".
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Sunday March 03 2019, @12:31AM (2 children)
And it's like you can't read past the first sentence or come to a logical conclusion. So, were we formally debating, you just conceded the rest of it to me. Thanks!
But since you're missing the logic here, I'll spell it out in the smallest words I can: Stop the virus from ever happening, you won't ever need the antibiotics to defend against the secondary infections opened up because you were stupid enough to allow a preventable virus to take hold. (Antibiotics which then allow other infections to form on top of the ones you just killed with the first round of antibis. Which then can form resistance if you don't get it all killed.)
Guess what the best, and to date only, way of stopping someone from getting the virus is???
So we'll send you back to basic logic in addition to elementary biology.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @06:20PM (1 child)
No one here ever claimed any of these things you are arguing against, its all strawmen made up by you. One after the other a new strawman pops into your head and you start arguing with it. It really looks like insanity.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday March 06 2019, @06:40PM
Logical consequences of the claim that "antibiotics were very useful for measles," which was wrong from the start. In fact it was a level of Luke Skywalker, "Amazing, every word of what you just said was wrong," level of wrongness about the post. Not anywhere approaching historically or medically accurate level of wrong.
So we can just let it go that the parent's post was insane. As is Bill Zedler.
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