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Not deaf, dumb and blind ....

Just dumb, dumb and dumb.

 

A young woman I know posted about this yesterday. Her mother and father spent crazy money on IVF for five years before she finally caught. As is often true several embryos were introduced, and she and her twin brother were the result. Her mother has been in tears off and on ever since this decision was announced. She knows intimately what that emotional rollercoaster is like, and her empathy for the despair felt by the people who are currently trying to have children is tearing her apart.

 

Maybe some people shouldn't reproduce..

Measles outbreak in Florida: Cases concern pediatrician – NBC 6 South Florida

 

Who says MAGA never did anything good for us?

 

It's worth quoting the WaPo article on the Florida measles outbreak for those outside the paywall. There's a part of me that wants to see this thing blow up to enlighten and punish the wilfully ignorant, but that would come at the expense of children who had no defense from being born to morons.

I remember the pictures of terribly damaged Thalidomide babies in Life magazine. If Florida children who go deaf or blind from measles became known as "DeSantis babies" it would be simple justice.


Florida surgeon general defies science amid measles outbreak
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/02/22/florida-measles-outbreak-ladapo/


"As a Florida elementary school tries to contain a growing measles outbreak, the state’s top health official is giving advice that runs counter to science and may leave unvaccinated children at risk of contracting one of the most contagious pathogens on Earth, clinicians and public health experts said.

Florida surgeon general Joseph A. Ladapo failed to urge parents to vaccinate their children or keep unvaccinated students home from school as a precaution in a letter to parents at the Fort Lauderdale-area school this week following six confirmed measles cases.

Instead of following what he acknowledged was the “normal” recommendation that parents keep unvaccinated children home for up to 21 days — the incubation period for measles — Ladapo said the state health department “is deferring to parents or guardians to make decisions about school attendance.”

The controversial move by Ladapo follows a pattern of bucking public health norms, particularly when it comes to vaccines. Last month, he called for halting the use of mRNA coronavirus vaccines, in a move decried by the public health community.

Ben Hoffman, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said Florida’s guidance flies in the face of long-standing and widely accepted public health guidance for measles, which can result in severe complications, including death.

“It runs counter to everything I have ever heard and everything that I have read,” Hoffman said. “It runs counter to our policy. It runs counter to what the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] would recommend.”

Measles outbreaks have been on the rise in recent years. So far in 2024, at least 26 cases in at least 12 states have been reported to the CDC, about double the number at this point last year. In addition to the six cases confirmed in the Florida school, cases have been reported in Arizona, California, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York City, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Experts say the outbreaks are linked to the growing number of parents seeking exemptions from childhood vaccinations in recent years following political backlash to coronavirus pandemic mandates and rampant misinformation about the safety of vaccines."

In January, the CDC issued a warning to health providers to be on alert for more measles cases. Infected people are contagious starting four days before a rash develops and until four days afterward.

Because measles virus particles can linger in the air and on surfaces for up to two hours after an infected person leaves the area, up to 90 percent of people without immunity will contract measles if exposed. People who have been infected or received the full two doses of the MMR vaccine are 98 percent protected and very unlikely to contract the disease. That is why public health officials typically advocate for vaccination amid outbreaks.

 

Donald Trump event removes empty chairs, photos show

 

Tucker should be in prison for the rest of his life for lying about George Floyd’s murder and the Jan. 6 terrorist attack.

 

We've talked about working class voters going (or not) to the GOP. This is the college educated upper-middle-class wandering away.

 

That school is 5 miles from where I used to live. Broward is a very blue county, BTW, typically 2:1 Democratic.

 

Senator Moldy Potato is happy to contribute some authentic frontier gibberish.

Tommy Tuberville Completely Flounders on Alabama IVF Embryo Ruling