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Anti-vaccine nonsense spurred NY's largest outbreak in decades
Health officials in New York are cautiously optimistic that they have a large measles outbreak under control after tackling the noxious anti-vaccine myths and unfounded fears that fueled the disease's spread.
Since last fall, New York has tallied 177 confirmed cases of measles, the largest outbreak the state has seen in decades. It began with infected travelers, arriving from parts of Israel and Europe where the highly contagious disease was spreading. In New York, that spread has largely been confined to ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. As measles rippled through those insular religious communities, health officials ran into members who were wary of outsiders as well as those who harbor harmful myths and fears about vaccines. This included the completely false-yet-pernicious belief that the measles vaccine causes autism.
To quash the outbreak, health officials met with rabbis and pediatricians in the community, who in turned urged community members to be vigilant and, above all, get vaccinated, according to The New York Times. "Good people, great parents were terrified," Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, founder of Darchei Noam yeshiva in Monsey in Rockland County, told the Times. Despite the fears, he insisted parents vaccinate their children. "They felt that I was asking to give their children something that would harm them."
(Score: 2) by edIII on Saturday January 19 2019, @10:09PM
My issue with the substance is that it contains Mercury. I have my own experiences with toxic levels in my body just from eating some goddamn fucking Tuna. Levels in the ocean doubled in the last 50-100 years, and corruption prevented California from outright warning citizens about said levels (Federal government sued California to stop them). The EPA and FDA can't agree on safe levels, and it was the FDA corruptly influenced by fishing lobbyists to increase their levels from the EPA's levels. Most fish like tuna, if you tested it, have unsafe levels according to the EPA, and yet are still sold on market. Absent the corruption, there would be very strong warning labels about limiting consumption. However, last time I went to the store the cans of tuna contain zero warnings. Hence why anything the FDA says I treat with huge asteroid sized grains of salt, and I always believe they're influenced by lobbyists and their money. I want the FDA to be corroborated with European institutions.
I really don't give a shit that it's in an organic form, and I understand the differences. I don't believe it justifies the use, and that's it more appropriate to choose something else. Removing it before injection through some other process is acceptable though, as long as that process is well understood and vetted of course.
Responding to your other post at the same time here,
All the more reason for them to cut corners to increase profits. Avarice as a disease makes corporate America constantly search for greater and more profits. They cannot accept something that cannot continually increase in profit somehow.
The difference would be in quality control, and the selection of preservatives and other compounds necessary for the vaccine to be stored, shipped, etc. While I don't have specific evidence of malfeasance, there is plenty of evidence for malfeasance in general WRT Big Pharma. I don't trust them, and they've roundly earned my distrust. The corporations in Europe I see differently, and are much more likely to be populated by less sociopathic people that would cut corners and produce inferior and/or dangerous medicines. Vaccines are really only one small part of the bigger issue.
My original point was that the average public has no way, or justification, to trust the scientific and medical community and unfortunately, high profile reasons to distrust them. The FDA is supposed to dissolve a pharma company when they are caught knowingly hurting people, but this hasn't happened in several instances. The excuse has always been a Too-Big-To-Fail excuse, and the executives involved faced no justice. Fines are NOT justice when people have died, and executives have zero accountability to the public.
It's not wrong for them to be suspicious when we are treated like cattle with an acceptable loss rate, statistically speaking. So when I hear fucking assholes like ikanreed unfairly denigrate families that are frightened for their children, I just remind everyone that the scientific and medical community are most certainly responsible for their share of the distrust. Sitting back and smugly calling them uninformed idiots only sticks their heads in the sand, and ignores the glaring problems in how we perform science, and how we regulate the medical community (which Big Pharma is a part of) to protect our citizens.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.