PBP: Measles 2025

At this point it actually demonstrates the power of inoculation because the total cases is cresting at a pretty low level. Measles is crazy infectious and I thought it would wind it's way through all the unvaccinated but it seems to be having a hard time getting out of its few footholds.

 

It's about time

And don't let it make you question your own morals. The world is better off without Trump voters, period.

 

Clones was the hit that didn't sound like the rest of his stuff I heard.



I never heard Nightmare or School's Out, still haven't. They were hits, but they weren't mainstream radio where I lived, so no biggie to not have heard them. But You And Me? I Never Cry? How... See Me Now? All day long.

 

As MAGA officialdom has already said, they are going to die anyway.

 

No need to welcome me, I have been here since 2016.

 

Hate the sin, love the sinner!

It’s kinda ********ed up how important that cliche has become. Because there’s so, so much sin to hate with Trump and his fans.

 

Agree with the first, cannot be bothered to even try the second. Which leads to...

I know I'm supposed to receive a heavenly reward for those two actions combined (along with others), but for something as extreme as loving a conservative or centrist despite their hatred (or carefully plotted apathy, in the case if libertarians), I'm-a need verifiable proof of this great afterlife.

Being Black and having your eyes and ears open daily, for real, can get you past the fear of damnation.

 

Oh, and by "sin", I mean conservatism.

 

Lutherans believe we are saved by grace through faith. Works aren’t part of the equation.

 

No, but peer pressure to avoid certain behavior is part of the equation in practice. The "don'ts" are already codified, and now the job is to make sure everyone else conforms to that idea of propriety. Protestants as a rule are about grace thru faith. Doesn't mean they don't legislate to spread their don'ts. I'm down to my last few prerolls now because of that.

Grace thru faith is also (mis)interpreted around here in a way that negatively affects the most vulnerable. It tells people they can get away with all kinds of shit in life and then atone for it on their deathbeds.

 

So, I'm reading today that there are measles outbreaks in South Carolina and Minnesota.

 

And a baby died of whooping cough.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/ot...-whooping-cough/ar-AA1NCvtq?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Returning to the good old days.

 

Our American conservatives are really reactionaries and we are getting the real results of reaction.

 

I hope the left-leaning posters here and their immediate left-leaning relatives can survive this with as few issues as possible,

 

and 20, for now, in Minnesota

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-measles-cases-jump-to-20/

 

As it that increase (but only because of misinformation)

 

I have a fairly close relative who works in the field, with (but not at) the CDC. He said that vaccination models (ala Covid) had always assumed some modest level of public skepticism/resistance, but they had never accounted for our having a President like Trump at the decisive moment.

‘Trump lied, people died’ oversimplifies, but not greatly.

 

Here's the dumbest thing about it:

He was all about how Operation Warp Speed was going to push it out faster "than any other vaccine in history" with the usual hyperbole he spews. He had all those press conferences with Drs. Fauci and Birx, even if she was face-palming when he talked about horse medicine, eating bleach and zapping it out with UV light.

Now, all of a sudden, if you get "jabbed" you're a radical leftist who hates him, etc etc and probably paid for to "get the jab" or whatever.

It's mystifying.

And yeah, it doesn't take a genius to wonder what would have happened if George Bush said "9/11 was a liberal hoax" the way DJT said so about COVID.

They truly are a Qult.

"Al-Qaida, if they really do exist (they do NOT, BTW), are paid for by George SOROS and the Radical LEFTISTS! The so-called dead people are actually in hiding! DRAIN THE SWAMP! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! PRESIDENT DJT!"
--Probably.

"I'm not a doctor. I don't know much about this COVID thing, but I know it's really bad in Texas and it's probably bad where you live too. One thing I do know is that we have lots of experts working on it. I'm pressing Congress to increase funding to the researchers in order to get a safe, effective, vaccine out. With God at our side, we will get through this. God bless the troops. President George Bush."

What timeline do we live in that George freaking W Bush can easily be portrayed as reasonable?

 

Canada had completely eradicated measles back in '98 but it is back to being endemic again. US isn't quite there yet, surprisingly, but close behind.
Arstechnica

 

Good news, everybody!

C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time

https://archive.is/A5FIj