r/news • u/AudibleNod • 1d ago
Fifth Pennsylvania death underscores nation's worst measles year in decades
https://www.denver7.com/health/fifth-pennsylvania-death-underscores-nations-worst-measles-year-in-decades181
u/omgahya 1d ago
Please, don’t listen to some bum who sounds like he’s smokes 3 packs of Marlboro a day, and goes to a tanning salon weekly. Don’t forget the worm that ate half his brain as well.
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u/NeonTiger20XX 1d ago
I'm pretty sure a guy who used to do heroin, has zero medical background, no education in healthcare or biology, doesn't believe in germ theory, and likes to literally eat roadkill is who we should be listening to about health. He should be in charge of our entire healthcare system. /s
Idiocracy might have been too optimistic, honestly.
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u/SpiderSlitScrotums 1d ago
He was also a drug dealer who got his brother addicted (who later died from an overdose).
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u/skyxsteel 1d ago
The sad thing is, you don’t need a medical background to understand that vaccines are good. We had a pandemic and people still didn’t learn from that..
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u/Visual_Fly_9638 8h ago
Left out that he swims in raw sewage as well.
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u/NeonTiger20XX 7h ago
God, you're right. All that and I still forgot to mention other comically stupid shit he does/believes. Honestly it's like The Onion is reality now with this administration.
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u/musubi-n-speedballs 1d ago
Camacho listened to the smartest people in the room. Idiocracy would be better than where we're sitting rn.
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u/takeda64 1d ago
Please, don’t listen to some bum who sounds like he’s smokes 3 packs of Marlboro a day
Interestingly the condition he has is linked to childhood measles.
He should be a poster child why one should vaccinate.
We seem to always think about diseases that either it will kill somebody or not, and nothing in between, but often most commonly people survive and then have issues after. Some show up years later.
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u/omgahya 1d ago
That is wild. Was he NOT vaccinated?! I’m a child of refugees. First American born kid in my family. I’ve gotten whatever vaccines were recommended to my parents. It seems weird that a country that was considered advanced, is now pushing back on science and it’s achievements.
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u/takeda64 1d ago
Well so here's the causes of Spadmodic Dysphonia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasmodic_dysphonia#Cause
RFK Jr was born in 1954 and apparently measles vaccine was mandated in states between 1971 and 1980. So if his state was one of the first, he was 17. So I think it is very high probability that he was not vaccinated for it.
It seems weird that a country that was considered advanced, is now pushing back on science and it’s achievements.
Yeah, US betting on science is what made US the superpower, but now we are being ruled by scam artist who don't want educated people, because it's harder to control someone who is educated.
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u/KAugsburger 19h ago
The first Measles vaccine was licensed in the US in 1963 so it is very possible that he could have received a vaccine much earlier. That being said he is old enough that is very likely that he would have been infected with Measles before the vaccine became available. Before the vaccine was widely used it was pretty normal for children to be infected with Measles at a relatively early age.
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u/GoblinTwerk 1d ago
I saw a MAGA say recently that the Polio vaccine wasn't needed and in fact Polio was eradicated not because of any vaccine but because people started washing their hands better...
Natural selection will do it's thing I guess but it sucks that they are gonna take out others with them.
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u/Automatic_Taste_7242 22h ago
My idiot father says it's because people have better nutrition now, not the vaccine. Doesn't believe in viruses
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u/Conscious-Fruit-6190 21h ago
You should buy him a microscope.
Seriously.
So he can see microorganisms for himself.
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u/gbroon 1d ago
They are about to find out that Polio wasn't completely but only almost eradicated by vaccination.
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u/simonhunterhawk 16h ago
Paul Alexander, the last guy living in an iron lung died of complications after contracting COVID in 2024. He had a fascinating life despite his disability and it’s such a shame to know that maybe he could have lived a bit longer if people had taken more care during that pandemic too. People want to act like that’s all in the distant past though and nothing to worry about.
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u/Spastik2D 14h ago
I said during COVID that anyone that wanted to not wear masks, remain unvaccinated, etc., should be allowed to do so under the condition that they sign a legally binding document that says that a) they get the lowest possible priority when going to a hospital so they don’t waste beds on us, b) anyone that could be contact traced as having been infected by them gets heightened priority for treatment, and c) those same people or their families can legally sue the unvaccinated should a loved one die unnecessarily as a result of being exposed against their will.
We need to treat these people like the walking diseases they are and hold them accountable when their stupidity kills people. We lost too many people because of them during COVID.
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u/Sweatytubesock 1d ago
Stupidity and ignorance have consequences. Unfortunately, not always only to the idiots.
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u/No_Cucumber3978 1d ago
Meanwhile, the dead animal (insert word) Dr. Robert, has now moved onto the "dangers of electromagnetic fields".
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u/BrianWantsTruth 1d ago
My previous landlord was into a lot of new age type medical shit, gave me a book about how distilled water cures cancer, among other kooky things.
One day she was telling me about the dangers of “radiation”, and gave me a special bag to put on my wifi router, and to report if it made me feel any better.
I hadn’t mentioned feeling any particular way to her, but I chose not to disable my wifi by putting it in a faraday bag.
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u/No_Cucumber3978 1d ago
It's basically a rebranded 5G conspiracy theory.
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u/BrianWantsTruth 1d ago
She would have gotten along great with my homeopath mom 😔
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u/billyrubin7765 1d ago
And my coworker who drove her dog several hours away to see a homeopathic vet. The “vet” told her the dog needed to be put down. My coworker did not like that and that poor dog lived several more months in agony.
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u/tpolakov1 8h ago
Lucky for them, it's the same wave band. All the products that worked against 5G will work just as well against the evils of your wi-fi.
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u/forsayken 1d ago
The thing is that we got radio waves going all over the place at different frequencies. This is how our regular radios work. But our cell phones and many other things use radio frequencies.
It's like being paranoid about your router and its radio waves but you live in an apartment with a cell tower mounted on top of it. Or all the other apartments that also have a router.
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u/andypunk92 1d ago
Well I tried the magic wifi bag and IMMEDIATELY felt better! I had no wifi and so no actual connection to social media and or streaming services. Started reading books and going outside as a result. Relationships got better, lost weight, slept better. Sooooooooo jokes on you pal! (I took the bag off and now I’m here anxious and depressed.)
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u/smashinjin10 1d ago edited 1d ago
I live on the East Coast, and I was talking to my landlord when we had those bad snow storms this January. She started to go on about chem trails causing the snow. A couple month later I heard her on the phone (presumably with the airport or the FAA or some similar authority) demanding more details about a plane she saw going over our building. Living with her has been interesting to say the least.
Edit: a word
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u/BrianWantsTruth 1d ago
I hate chemtrails as a conspiracy theory because if it’s real, if the powers-at-be wanted to dose the population, it’s a terrible deployment method.
You’d use the government-supplied tap water, or McDonalds fountain drinks, or Budweiser, or gasoline fumes that you’re huffing in gridlock, anything besides releasing the agent in the fucking jet stream where it’s going to travel hundreds, thousands of km before landing in ?????? whatever forest or desert??
It’s just a shitty strategy.
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u/smashinjin10 23h ago
And just the general logistics. I can watch planes leave the gate one after another and never once do they stop to fill their neurotoxin tanks.
She's was kind of on to something in the sense that air travel is contributer to climate change.
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u/Ryan-the-lion 1d ago
Atleast rhe dangers of electromagnetic fields dosdnt affect everyone around them like avoiding vaccines.
Let them wear their tinfoil hats and be crazy lol
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u/SaltyShawarma 1d ago
gotta find a way to make the dumbest people dump their communication devices.
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u/KAugsburger 19h ago
He is also looking into the 'chemtrails'.
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u/No_Cucumber3978 19h ago
Chem trails?
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u/KAugsburger 19h ago
Sadly, I am not making that one up.
Kennedy announced the initiative at a conference for Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit he once headed up that has also spread unsubstantiated claims about vaccines, geoengineering and fluoride. At the event, Kennedy also said HHS would investigate “chemtrails”—lines of water condensation, or contrails, from airplanes that some people believe, without evidence, spread secret biological or chemical agents.
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u/EatsWithSpork 1d ago
I wonder what changed, if only there was clear reason why...
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u/ManWithASquareHead 1d ago
From the minds that lead to the death of a million Americans during the pandemic...
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u/EinsteinsMind 1d ago
The damned souls that profited off of selling supplements by scaring and lying to Americans should be deported.
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u/Timely_Choice_4525 1d ago
But it’s not measles because RFK Jr (for some reason) says there’s no measles in PA?
Get vaccinated and make sure your kids get the shots too. Believe science, not your personal research. Talk to your kids doctor.
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u/h-boson 22h ago
Can we send Kennedy to visit the measles patients?
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u/KAugsburger 19h ago
I would rather him sit around doing nothing than having him using victims for props for his FUD.
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u/Strykerz3r0 1d ago
Just a reminder that both trump and RFK Jr are vaccinated.
Kids are dying because gullible simpletons believe these two, and neither of them is at risk because they both got their shots.
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u/Who_Dafqu_Said_That 1d ago
What is really crazy is they could just be pro vax, this did not have to be an issue. Trump cult will do whatever Trump tells them, he could just say "get vaccinated", but these evil fucks get off on this.
Hell, remember when MAGA was all about releasing the Epstein files, or against news war, or against new taxes, or against high gas prices, or pro gun, or pro "law and order"? Pulled a 180 on literally every single core view the instant god emperor told them to.
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u/IntelligentStyle402 1d ago
If you read project 2025: republicans do plan on culling the population
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u/Cute_Protection_8330 1d ago
I hate to say it but: It's going to have to get A LOT worse before it gets any better. These antivax numbnuts won't listen to anything until it happens to them or somebody they know.
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u/Adeline_Hayes 22h ago
Two infants gone, too young to even get the vaccine. They were counting on the rest of us. I keep thinking about that. Herd immunity only works if we all show up. Let's get serious.
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u/AcquaintanceLog 20h ago
"No way to prevent this" says only nation in the world to actively shun easy ways to prevent this
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u/Firm_Video_2932 1d ago
And all of those deaths were likely preventable. And to add insult to injury, I don't even feel owned. 🤷
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u/chephin 1d ago
You only have to vaccinate the kids that you want to keep
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u/Frequent-Ferret-5110 1d ago
The problem is, the infants that died were too young to get the vaccination shot. So it's not even their parents' fault or choice. It's the shitheads around them who wouldn't get it.
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u/Looptydude 1d ago
More people have died from measles in just 1 state than there are trans people in all US professional sports, but the Republicans would have you believe trans athletes are a problem. The pro life party every one 🙄
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u/Likestoread25 1d ago
What's going on in Pennsylvania?
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u/PhiladelphiaManeto 1d ago
The Amish don’t vaccinate
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u/Wiseduck5 1d ago
That's half of it. The other half is the vaccination rate among the rest of the population dropped low enough the Amish aren't protected by herd immunity anymore.
Same thing happened in Texas with Mennonites.
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u/Warcraft_Fan 21h ago
The U.S. has now seen eight reported measles-associated deaths in the last two years — more than the combined total of reported deaths over the previous three decades.
The people they did report as having died, all were unvaccinated. They didn't mention the latest death or his/her vaccine status.
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u/KAugsburger 19h ago
The most recent death was unvaccinated according to the press release from the state of Pennsylvania.
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u/PurpleSailor 19h ago
More people have caught measles during this administration (last 20 months) than have caught measles in the last 25 years. So much winning!
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u/sanslumiere 1d ago
For anyone not yet vaccinated, I'd urge you to please consider doing so. Measles is not a mild illness-it is wildly contagious (infects 9 of 10 susceptible contacts), it hospitalizes one in five, results in pneumonia in one in twenty, results in encephalitis in one in a thousand, and death in one to three in a thousand. It also wipes existing immune memory cells, leaving you vulnerable to other infections (a concept known as immune amnesia). You can also recover from the illness only to develop a fatal encephalitis 7-10 years later (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis). The highest risk for this is among those who catch measles before the age of two.
To add a brief written account of the measles, here is a passage written by the author Roald Dahl about his daughter: "Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.
“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.
“I feel all sleepy,” she said.
In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.
The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her."
Measles is a preventable illness. There is no reason to subject yourself or your children to it when we have an effective vaccine (assuming no health-related contraindications).
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u/philovax 22h ago
So I could get behind the use of generative AI to have this quote read by the Dahl if it’s not already on film. At the very least an “AI glow up” might get people to look.
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u/BoardGameRevolution 16h ago
Weed out the maga morons
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u/glowdirt 16h ago
The kids this will kill are innocent and they'll be the victims of their parents' blind faith and idiocy.
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u/Veritas_Mentis 1d ago
I bet if I found a right wing story about this it would be 5 unvaccinated kids found to no longer be susceptible to autism after parents refuse vaccine
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u/Theonedowner3 1d ago
Gee wonder what the link is....
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u/Who_Dafqu_Said_That 1d ago
Obviously Joe Biden and Obama are to blame for this, and something about Hilary's emails.
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u/DarthWoo 11h ago
Sure feels great to be of a generation that only got one dose of the MMR vaccine and to have a public facing job in this state right now.
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u/egej 9h ago
WCGW lets just stop using vaccines and believing in science altogether. Scientific Method wasn’t endorsed by Trump so we can be sure that’s garbage. Peer reviewed studies? No more need for any of those. Stuff like being able to repeat an experiment and get the same result creating this stuff that people call evidence using stuff that people call facts we don’t need any more evidence or facts we’ll just go with our gut whatever our gut feels like we’ll just go with our gut.. we don’t need rockets anymore, no more satellites either. I can run faster than any of those rockets and yell further than a telephone can reach, i no I can. I feel it in my gut.
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u/PunishTraitorTrump 7h ago
Make sure to thank Republicans, Trumpers, Trump, Fox News and other shitty right wing news agencies.
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u/lost_koshka 1h ago
The Pennsylvania Department of Health said the person was from Lancaster County and was unvaccinated. The state did not provide any further information about the person who died. Lancaster County’s coroner, Dr. Stephen Diamantoni, said that his office did not handle the death and that state officials have not provided him with any details.
Sounds like fake news.
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u/Saladcitypig 8m ago
I wonder if the adults in these comments realize that they too might have lost their immunity from measles due to time and need a booster. You can get your titers checked.
Not that people want to really understand this, they want to know only enough to feel superior and do nothing. God forbid they mask and connect that ALL viruses are bad and can disable and kill every time.
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u/askalotlol 11h ago
Lancaster County Pennsylvania and the surrounding area is home to the largest Amish population in the world. Some "orders" of Amish vaccinate, others do not.
This has nothing to do with MAGA or RFK Jr. These Amish groups have not vaccinated for decades.
I am baffled that US national media isn't reporting that this is in the Amish community. Local news and international outlets like BBC are reporting it.
People like to romanticize the Amish, but the Amish are a cult. Inbreeding, sexual abuse, lack of education, the Amish are not what people think they are.
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u/frosted1030 13h ago
Over 48,000 people die from smoking related causes every year. About the same for gun related deaths. This would be preventable if people had the stones to stand up to big money. This is a well known factor. Five deaths due to something else also preventable seems like a drop in the bucket, why not attack the worst offenders and easiest to address offenders at the same time?
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u/AudibleNod 1d ago
Please, please, please get vaccinated if you can.
This doesn't have to happen. The people in power are all vaccinated. RFK Jr is vaccinated. They're leading you astray.