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02-03-2015, 09:22 AM | #1 |
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Measles 2015
2/3/15 - in 14 states and growing....
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02-03-2015, 09:51 AM | #2 |
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what does the caption have to do with the thread title?
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02-03-2015, 10:08 AM | #3 |
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It means having measles blows because you can't see anybody.
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02-03-2015, 10:09 AM | #4 |
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And what imbecile thinks Portland is in Nebraska?
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02-03-2015, 10:51 AM | #5 |
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All right you silly people... it was just a screen shot, not a legal exhibit in a court case
... try this one from Boston: |
02-03-2015, 07:04 PM | #7 |
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02-03-2015, 07:08 PM | #8 |
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Eh, lamp, nobody wants to deal with the fact that measles are a 'thing' again.
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02-03-2015, 08:25 PM | #9 |
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Yes, I'm aware of that.
But it's on it's way to being a political issue as well as public health, so either way it's going to be around for a while. I'm sorry if it makes people uncomfortable... blame Jenny. |
02-04-2015, 03:12 PM | #10 | |
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Measles is *extremely* contagious. It's ten times more contagious than, say, ebola. And we lost our fucking minds when the shadow of ebola threatened to darken our shores. Jon Stewart has a brilliant piece about the "strange hospital bedfellows" made of people who show off for the camera their ignorant *and* mindful stupidity as anti-vaxxers. Civilians and politicians alike hold forth providing comic fodder for Stewart. I especially liked the part where President Obama was asked about measles, he said "parents should vaccinate their children". Which sent Stewart into a tizzy remarking that now half the population of the country will avoid vaccination, just on their political principles. duuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Which brings me to this related news item about a politician who thinks individual freedom from government meddling in things like public health should take the form of... different governmental meddling. Thom Tillis: Keep Government Out of the Bathroom Quote:
Shit's spilled, people are sickened, or injured, or killed, but hey, we were upfront and transparent, so what? You know? We're only having a conversation about an outbreak of measles, we only have an OUTBREAK of measles strictly because of the effectiveness of vaccination. JFC.
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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02-05-2015, 12:31 AM | #12 |
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The reality is the regulation makes Starbucks post the sign. It forces neither the employee to wash their hands, nor Starbucks to enforce it.
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02-04-2015, 03:47 PM | #13 |
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Things that were also very effective at their given purpose: asbestos, Thalidomide, DDT. The argument has never been over effectiveness, and it's a straw man to keep pointing it out.
Phil Plait, aka Bad Astronomer, has a good piece about all the anti-anti-vax polemics. http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astro..._all_this.html In short, you are making your own problem worse with all your ranting and facepalming and JFChristing. |
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We, as a nation, are having a conversation about measles outbreaks. The reason it's noteworthy on a national scale is because it's novel. It's novel because it's uncommon and it's uncommon because of the effectiveness of measles vaccinations throughout our population. This is not a straw man argument. I am not doing anything like this: Quote:
Anyhow, I'm not making blanket statements. While we're discussing each other's logical arguments, associating "asbestos, Thalidomide, DDT" with vaccinations is just throwing some unhelpful red herrings into the conversation. Not helpful.
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Phil Plait is like the A-Number-One Super Shamer when it comes to anthropomorphic global warming. He loves it, he's all over it. So what Plait is now anxious about is that the rhetoric he loves so well on his favorite topic is now being co-opted -- for example the word "deniers" is now being applied to anti-vaxers. I'm in agreement with him on the science and the skepticism. But he's a hypocrite, and part of the problem. |
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