Measles scare: Packed theatre possibly exposed, cruise ship quarantined in Caribbean
As theatregoers packed an Orange County, California theatre, the health department confirms a measles victim may have spread the contagious virus. Meanwhile, a cruise ship off Saint Lucia was ordered to remain docked and quarantined after one confirmed case of measles. People are searching for proof of vaccination.
Thank goodness that this disease doesn't turn you into some sort of monster... It only kills. (do I need the sarc tag?)
No, you don't. Most intelligent people know what measles can do.
But there are many dumb people who fear vaccines more than the disease and they dont care or don't realize if their stupidity harms others.
The ship is a Scientologist ship - I'm pretty sure those people are not vaccinated. They're anti-drug and anti-science.
I thought ithat was christian scientists who abhorred medicine and science? I wasn't aware that also applied to Scientologists, outside of psychology.
Heard this is one of the most infectious of diseases.
Unclear what is unclear abut the value of getting vaccinated.
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Correct. It only takes one infected person's sneeze to transmit and infect others.
Measles was eradicated in the US in 2000. But, there's still a lot of anti-vaxxer misinformation spread on the Internet.
Parents where scared into thinking that there child would become autistic if vaccinated. Pushed by a few of the Hollywood crazies. The propaganda was compelling and many where convinced.
So, now we have a public health problem because of it. I wished more had been done to combat the loud mouth idiots in Hollywood.
And Trump spread the same lies ... his loud mouth holds more weight than actors for many people.
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The only "Hollywood" person I know who was pushing the anti-vax agenda was Jenny McCarthy who got her disinformation from some study she read (didn't realize she could read) from some quack who published a non-peer review study linking vaccines to autism. He was later proven to be completely wrong
I don't recall Trump going on a feverish campaign against vaccinations like the Hollywood idiots did going back many years. He admitted he was wrong to repeat the nonsense and is now encouraging vaccinations.
Unfortunately, Wakefield is now in the US peddling his lies, after being totally discredited and removed from the medical register in the U.K. Trump met with Wakefield ... and then Trump vocalized his fraudulent bullshit to the American public, claiming that he had personally seen how vaccines cause autism.
Wakefield even talked Trump into considering hiring another vaccine skeptic to head up a commission on vaccine safety.
Wakefield should be deported. We don't need that crap here
Who's dumb enough to listen to a bunch of non-educated, ignorant Hollywood types?
Good question....
He never admitted he was wrong. He never recanted the more than 20 anti-vax tweets he's made, or all the times he was recorded saying to the American people that vaccines cause autism. His crazy lies probably contributed to the current outbreak. Of course, only an idiot would take advice from a reality TV star, right?
He did make one comment recently telling people to get measles vaccinations, but not until lots of people had gotten sick. He needs to go a lot further and recant all the lies he told about vaccines and autism, though - but he will never admit he was wrong about anything, so that won't happen.
Funny how you give him a pass since he's a Republican while complaining about the crazy loud mouth Hollywood types who are liberals. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Obviously I never listened to them and I'm just a stupid liberal, right?
Indeed
Like I said, I don't recall Trump going on a media hype campaign for years against vaccinations as the Hollywood idiots did. And I doubt Trump had the same effect as celebs do.
If you want to blame him, I really don't care.
You care or you wouldn't repeat the same thing over and over ad nauseum
Yup, she's the only 'Hollywood' person I've heard also spouting that nonsense.
Such a dumb bitch.
Really, you think the President of the United States doesn't have the same effect as a former Playmate? When he made those claims during a Presidential debate???? And he pushed the lie for YEARS before that. You don't recall it because you refuse to believe anything bad about him.
And you don't realize that Trump was nothing but a Hollywood celeb himself?
Well, I don't have TDS, and blame everything on Trump.
hmmmmm......
Maybe just a smidge of TDS would do you some good....ya know....like a vaccine
There are quite a few ... among them Bill Maher, Jim Carrey, Charlie Sheen, Alicia Silverstone.
I've also noticed that the MSM and Hollywood media tried to put Donald Trump in the same category. In 2013, Donald Trump expressed a concern, but what the MSM and Hollywood media omitted and still omits is that he referred to giving babies and toddlers too many vaccines within a short period of time. He never said that he was anti-vaccines.
Jim Carrey, who was dating her at the time, also jumped on the anti-vax bimbo bandwagon, I believe.
I'm not sure that Jenny McCarthy's son was actually definitively diagnosed with autism. I've read that there is some doubt about that.
And tattoo artist Kat von D recanted on a statement about not wanting to inject her kids with vaccines. Ink is ok, vaccines not, apparently. She backpedaled after some public derision.
And they are sometimes elected to public office. Even folks who are only celebrities in their own mind.
No, you have LDS, and just blame everything on liberals.
If you would like to dispute something I have said with facts, please feel free.
Anyone who is on the anti vaccine campaign or shares that position also shares some of the blame.
Did someone say different?
I was actually agreeing with you, then expanding on the sentiment.
Throw that fucking idiot Trump into that statement, he has pushed anti-vaxx bullshit (publicly) on several occasions.
People who listen to other people without informing themselves are the problem. Not Jenny McCarthy, Trump or Skeetz MacGrewder for that matter.
Why would anyone put the heath of their child in anyone else’s hands but their own and their Doctors?
Sheer stupidity is the only reason I can come up with.
That goes for any conspiracy theorists, really. When people want to believe something, they'll believe a non-expert who is saying what they already think, rather than an expert who's telling them what they don't want to hear.
And unfortunately too many people don't understand causation and correlation. I still know people who claim the flu shot gave them the flu.
I think the so-called rise of autism is really due to better diagnoses. Did people really know what autism was 30-40 years ago?
That, and it's also linked to children being born to older parents, especially older fathers. For various reasons, couples are putting off childbearing more commonly than they used to do.
Because celebrities/politicians are wealthier, more famous and thus know more than myself and my doctor. Duhh (sarc)
Incoming --------->> More measles?
I'm beginning to think we should quarantine anti-vaccers along with those with measles. Anti-vaccer stupidity seems to be contagious.
I don't know what to think about this anymore, Gordy. For a disease that was eradicated in the US in 2000, we've seen it slowly creep back in ... with several spikes over the years.
The unvaccinated live not only in North America (Canada, US, Mexico) but also in Africa, Central and South America, Europe, and Asia.
It's creeping back in the US largely because of the anti-vaccer mentality and stupidity. I just don't get it.
Those of us who were vaccinated years/decades ago need to have antibody titers done. It's a simple blood test to see if we're still immune.
Indeed. And booster shot are easy to obtain if needed.
I have been saying that for awhile. Let them live in their own disease infested rat holes, but they should not be allowed to endanger the rest of society because they are idiots. As I have said previously, I wonder how quickly they would change their tune if Smallpox managed to find its way into one of their retard dens?
My initial reaction was "that sucks", until I found out this is the scientology cruise ship. After that all I can do is laugh.