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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.
It could be funny if it weren't so tragic.
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Texas Lawmaker not Worried about Measles because of ‘Antibiotics'
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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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