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NireBryce
@NireBryce

On Feb. 24, the Kentucky Department for Public Health identified a confirmed case of measles in an unvaccinated individual with a history of recent international travel, the CDC said.

While infected, the individual attended a large religious gathering on Feb. 17–18, with an estimated 20,000 people there from other states and countries, the national agency said.

Measles is one of the most contagious human viruses and is almost entirely preventable through vaccination. However, it requires 95% vaccine coverage to prevent outbreaks among populations.

grim-and-worse-news: the revival was evangelical, and led by gen-z students at a christian school, so doing the napkin math that's right about when antivax started.

You'd think after the second plague the right-evangelicals would get the message.


amydentata
@amydentata

these people are determined to be a vector for disease and i'm tired of being polite about it


rotsharp
@rotsharp

it sure as hell is on purpose, brought to you from the same people as "have children as weapons" who should get zero doubt that theyre trying to crash the planet to incarnate their god with blood sacrifice at this point, or serving as useful fools to the people who verifiably want that exact thing

i am so insane about having to pretend there arent supervillains


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fortunately-unfortunately I don't think this is planned, measels outbreaks are common, especially in populations that encourage missionary work and discourage vaccination.

whether antivax itself is intentionally genocidal (ca. 1996) is a question I've wondered for awhile, though, especially w/ evangelical connections to the movement

it doesnt ultimately matter because if we say that "not providing medical care to people in a world where private interest groups can casually start outbreaks of lethal diseases" is a method of genocide then the groups causing them are likewise responsible for being the cock sleeve that capitalist genocide fucks us through. it amounts, imo, to a chilling effect on society indistinguishable in social role, scope, and targeting as stochastic terrorism and i simply dont care whether people mean to anymore, with probable millions of dead miscounted and erased from the public consciousness by covid denialism

I don't disagree and won't get deep into the weeds because it doesn't matter that much outside of audiences that largely aren't here anyway.

just, remember that intentionality is often parsed as an escalation from stochastic.

and some people, especially people newer to the movements, have a lot of, mmm, lets say "uninformed reactions and/or plans" when they hear things that sound that dire. and don't bother to get context.

And I suppose I'm just wary of more of those as the years go on.

understandably so. i am not trying particularly hard to be legible to that kind of person anymore or pretend that i have some kind of mass media-scale of responsibility with my language. i am mad that we all have to live this way and i want blood about it, since peace is not forthcoming