Over 100 children at the school are susceptible to virus.
Any parent of a kid that is unvaccinated should be charged with abuse and child endangerment IMO.
At first I though this was a bit draconian; that is, solving what is largely an education/misinformation issue and diminishing civil liberties all the while opening the door to abuse from a more nefarious government — on the other hand, it would force the topic of vaccinations into a court of law where anti-vaxx fallacies would fall completely flat.
Personally I’d much rather bring up charges against the primary sources of such misinformation; then that might cause them to think twice about spreading lies in the future.
But America is open for business when it comes to grift. From Alex Jones and Joe Rogan to Steve Bannon — they understand that the gullible are profitable.
The problem is with primary souce is that for all intents and purposes there isnt one anymore. Sure back in the 90s there were but its a lot like creationism, a rat king of lies and stupid shit. Self perpetrating bullshit has to be dealt with via other means.
Over 100 children at the school are susceptible to virus.
Wrong. They’re all susceptible.
As many learned during COVID, mass vaccination is necessary to prevent the spread of a virus.
The devil is in the details though. Covid vaccines are not a good example of this as they mostly reduce the risk of dying from Covid. You can still get sick and distribute the virus, it is just a ton milder and much less dangerous (which is still useful and you should get vaccinated obviously, just saying before anyone thinks I am anti vaccine). The measles vaccine however prevents people from getting sick at all, unless I am mistaken.
Sadly, ou are mistaken. The 89% of vaccinated kids are at risk of measles as it is circulating in that community.
No. The measles vaccine is around 97% effective at preventing the disease. Yes, some who got the vaccine are still at risk, but the vast majority of them have effective protection.
If nursing a patient with measles, there is a reason why gloves and hand hygine is still required. Medically, we consider the 97% effective as a population average besed upon “usual exposure”. That means 3 in 100 vaccinated children are likely to contract measles this way. If your. local exposure is higher, then there are higher infection rates in that peer group. If you sit next to me for 5 mins you have one risk of exposure. If we are kids in a classroom together for several hours, then the transmission risk is higher. So yes, just like COVID, the higher the proportion of infective people and the longer the contact time the greater the risk of infection and also transmission.
Is it 97% on the basis that herd immunization makes your exposure unlikely, so that you’d at best be exposed to a single person that could contract it to you?
Or is it 97% on the basis that you are submerged in an atmosphere full of people sick from measles?
WHO information on these numbers
So either it refers to a clinical trial with a defined exposure, or it referes to empircal data that is based on the conditions in the real world, which critically includes the herd immunity.
Herd immunity is a critical factor and it works exponentially. E.g. from 100% to 95% is less of an issue than from 95% to 90% The critical point for measles is at around 92% to prevent exponential infections. This included the risk for people who are vaccinated
Measles are among the most contagious diseases. To interpret the graph. Because of the high R rate w.o. immunization, you need 92% immunization rates to have one measle case cause another measle case, e.g. reproduction = 1. You go below and it goes exponential.
3% risk is really freaking high when there’s lots of virus around you
3% of the 89% times how many students? That’s a hell of a lot of suffering invaccinated individuals.
So 89% of children have a 3% risk of catching measles if exposed, that’s 30 children given the article numbers, out of 1100 total children.
I believe this is called a risk, given you can’t know which children the vaccine won’t work.
You aren’t mistaken.
Afaiu it also saves them from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subacute_sclerosing_panencephalitis, which is a delayed death sentence.Exactly. Long measles is like slow rabies
Yah, less contagious, but as deadly, which is kinda horrible 😕
Failing to vaccinate a kid (unless there are legit medical reasons) should be a chargeable offence in the same way that letting them sit in the backseat of a car without a booster / seatbelt is. These parents, as stupid and credulous as they are, have endangered their kids and some of them might suffer life altering injuries or death from that.
Manatee Bay in Weston Florida. I saved you a click.
It’s a very affluent neighborhood in a very affluent city. Homes start at $1 Million in the entire city. Feel bad for the kids.
Great. They just had a huge soccer tournament there this past weekend, with kids (and parents) travelling from all of Florida and out of State. This is going to be 👍
If I had a time machine, I’d abduct antivaxxers and take them back in time before vaccines existed and ask them to explain their position to someone who lost half a dozen children to now-preventable illnesses.
Hey guys, thanks to anti-vax grifter podcasts we now have diseases we had almost defeated circulating again! Humans are so cool!
Sad the children have to suffer for their idiot parents.
Wow, who could’ve ever precicted not vaccinating your kids because you saw your neighborhood drunk stay at home mom who believes in healing crystals “explain” why scientists are wrong was a dumb decision that would lead to this ?
It’ll take losing their children to maybe knock some sense into them. Maybe
This is so sad it turned comical. Those suffering are not the ones to blame, but it seems there’s no other way than have people start dying for “belief” in science to return.
Measles coming back might finally cow those susceptible to antivaxxer propaganda. But it will have to be widespread. People will have to die horrifically before we beat back antivaxxers to a small percentage of the population once again.
People are too fucking stupid to just get their vaccines unless there is a stick. Carrots don’t work well enough, apparently. Over a disease once considered eliminated, too. I’m salty that people can’t do literally anything for the greater good one a year, or even once every 10 years.
Over 500k people died of COVID-19 and yet anti-vaxx still exists and they are still growing in numbers.
Measles and chicken pox has been coming back for years, they will not change their minds. Unless it happens to them of course.
