Congratulations to Florida. US eradicated measles in 2000 and now in 2024 we have an outbreak.

[cytg111]

Well if I was an adversarial nation and dictatorship if I could drop a few social media bombs and get half the country to stop trusting institutions hereunder national health institutions… I mean whats not to like.
Social media is literally the west exposing our arterial arteries to the enemy. Its not like King Goon can just shut down the flow of information if he chooses to invade Ukraine… For example.
Combine that with literacy levels in the US and your ripe for the raping.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Can someone explain to me how and why vaccines have become intrinsically tied in with populist right wing politics and religion in the US?

Because the right wing of the US is contrarian to the left wing, at this point. Virtually any stance a left winger can possibly take, the right wing has to take the opposite. This extends to absurd conclusions, like antivax.

 

[Brainonska511]

Skipping MMR is such a horrible idea - beyond the immediate impact of hospitalizing and killing a few kids per 1000 infected, there are also a bunch of fun long term issues that can arise. Long-term disability, several years of immune suppression (immune amnesia) that makes you more susceptible to other illnesses, and for a select group of people, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (swelling of the brain), which can arise 7-10 years after infection (and sometimes even later).

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Can someone explain to me how and why vaccines have become intrinsically tied in with populist right wing politics and religion in the US?

I firmly believe it’s propaganda that came from Russia/China around the time Obama was President.
Red States (States that typically vote Republican) historically have had the strictest vaccination policies and schedules.
Something has happened over the last 12 years.

 

[Brainonska511]

I firmly believe it’s propaganda that came from Russia/China around the time Obama was President.
Red States (States that typically vote Republican) historically have had the strictest vaccination policies and schedules.
Something has happened over the last 12 years.

It just became another item in the culture war. There were some religious exemption stuff, but nothing to big. COVID really supercharged the sentiment, and plenty of grifter organizations were ready to sprout up or redirect their anti-vax mission to a new, receptive audience.

There might be some propaganda aspect to it, but they're really just taking advantage of existing sentiments.

 

[Jaskalas]

Boomers aren’t having kids any longer.

No shit Sherlock.
The point was to share the ideology, that didn't disappear just because they got old. In fact, it probably just got worse. And now it sounds an awful lot like Florida's policy, which is why it is relevant. There happen to be kids, and more, at the mercy of Florida's decisions.

Not to mention that spreading disease might actually be MAGA policy, if their COVID response and if their favorite state are any indication.