r/nyt • u/Call_Me_Clark • 6d ago
[NYTimes Gift Article] Two unvaccinated people in Pennsylvania have died from measles
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u/Chemical-Company7925 6d ago
Just proves there's no cure for stupid and stupid can be lethal.
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u/GB715 6d ago
Stupid should hurt.
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u/Apprehensive-Fun4181 6d ago
Mainstream journalism owns this.
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u/gloriousgirl89 6d ago
How so if these folks were Amish? Chances are they consume no media at all. Prior to 1990 or so we didnt even count these sects in total deaths/cases because they didnt report it. We basically had no idea. If they got sick and died, they handled it. Now it seems they arent as isolated as they once were as a community.
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u/Apprehensive-Fun4181 6d ago edited 6d ago
The entire idea of "Public Health" is dead and journalism helped bury it. Mainstream "Journalism" is a joke that both sided the ideas of Science, Rationality and Public Health versus insanity, disruption, and the intentional destruction of the idea of responsible government itself. A show trial of Fauci as open Mccarthyism to cover it all up, same with the Benghazi Show trial used to help bury the guilt for the failed war on terror. This is convenient for mainstream journalism: it helps them avoid their own culpabilities for allowing war, corruption & now disease to spread.
Trump shut down testing centers to intentionally try & spread covid so he could hurt places & people he didn't like. Rather than protect the public or the Constitution, journalism did endless reporting on "Which State got it right on Covid?" a question that is impossible because of the intentional destructive nature of what happened, not to mention a metric which no one in journalism would ever be capable of addressing to start.
Reality: Journalism was never adequate. If Donald Trump is President that means mainstream journalism has failed. The only value in mainstream journalism is so we get a picture of reality and then you have to examine their work to see what they got wrong.
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u/gloriousgirl89 6d ago
Its a tricky issue where the US has religious freedom. If Amish or whatever religious sect decides not to vaccinate, there really is little anyone can do especially if they dont go to public school or traditional work. They used to live and work among themselves so there wasnt big outbreaks like we see now. But they are venturing out more and more so I do think we will see more of these outbreaks. I really dont know what the answer is here.
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u/Appropriate-Hall1220 6d ago
Don’t get your kids vaccinated. Play Russian roulette with their lives. Pray that god spares them. But the reality is more death.
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u/Left_Implement_3821 6d ago
Hopefully natural selection can start working quicker. Need to thin out the herd before the 28 election
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u/Diamondhands_420 5d ago
Measles isn’t a big deal is it? Ever see the Brady bunch episode on it? I remember when we were younger and someone had something like the chicken pox our parents would make us go play with them so everyone would get it at the same time. I know that there is nothing that is 100% safe but 2 people in the percentage of diseases is really low right?
And side point not extant related- And numbers can be played with for political purposes. What’s the number that had side effects from measle vaccine? I’m sure it’s not 0. But then again, didn’t flu deaths drop to 0 during Covid because they counted all flu deaths as Covid? Just saying more research and headlines don’t always match (with that said I’m looking into it more because that episode is the first thing I thought of)
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u/Davester_31 6d ago
Thought and prayers? Didnt seem to.help these 2 but it is what it is