I cannot even understand the reasoning of these people. I did not expect “consumption” to be a thing during my lifetime.
John Green would like you to know that tuberculosis has never stopped being a thing, if you’re counting the whole world.
But yes, it’s ridiculous people are actively choosing to bring it back to somewhere it was no longer a thing
Sorry to put a damper on your Schadenfreude, but this has nothing to do with any maga anti-vaccine laws. Although this outbreak is in Kansas, the TB vaccine is not used in the US, not even in blue states, except in rare special cases.
In the United States, BCG is only considered for people who meet specific criteria and in consultation with a TB expert.
See https://www.cdc.gov/tb/webcourses/TB101/page7181.html and https://www.cdc.gov/tb/hcp/vaccines/index.html
(it’s so irritating how people just lap this crap up without an ounce of critical thinking)
I’m Canadian and I had the TB vaccine in 2019 when I asked my doctor if I should have my vaccinations boosted because I was traveling for work. He asked me if I was traveling to third world countries and I said, “Yes, the United States.”
He boosted my MMR, my DTP, TB, Hepatitis A and B, Yellow Fever, and added the Pneumococus and Meningitis vaccines.
This is an interesting point. So what is causing the TB outbreak.
Also, the right doesn’t have a monopoly on hearing what they want to hear.
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yup the evidence on the TB vaccine had been pretty iffy and many argued that lowered TB exposure and infection rates were due to better population nutrition and improved air quality. That said, most other countries still use BCG in the world.
Oh, the irony…you’ve managed to out yourself as not even having read the article. But go you for managing to try and shit on the subject.
I read it. It’s a politically slanted article trying to link a TB outbreak with anti-vaxxers and magats, implying it happened because people refused to get vaccinated against TB, implying that the TB vaccine is even recommended or routinely given in the US, WHICH IT ISN’T, which I explained in my post with links to reliable sources backing up my statements.
You apparently didn’t read either the article or my post, or maybe just didn’t understand them. If you think I said something incorrect, state what it was and back up your statement.
this has nothing to do with any maga anti-vaccine laws. Although this outbreak is in Kansas, the TB vaccine is not used in the US, not even in blue states, except in rare special cases.
Mate. It literally explains in the article that:
- Tuberculosis vaccine is not mandatory and hasn’t been required for almost 20 years.
- That the controversy around COVID vaccination and the laws they pushed validating those imaginary fears made people fearful of vaccines, and by proxy, basic preventative healthcare.
The whole point of the article was to point out that the unintended consequences of pushing laws and regulations built on fear have harmful repercussions - i.e. you now have a population that thinks COVID isn’t that bad, that won’t wear masks, isolate, or go to the doctors…in the middle of an outbreak that is extremely similar to COVID.
Except we don’t typically vaccinate people in the US against TB.
Few healthcare workers even get that particular jab.
More than you’d think. TB has geographic ties, so people in known high-risk areas generally get BCG, especially healthcare workers and people with autoimmune diseases.
And Kansas is not a high-risk area.
Somewhere, John Green is just raging.
I mean isn’t he pretty consistently in Indianapolis.
Make America La Bohème again
This is happening in the KC Metro. For those celebrating illness in a red state, this is US House District for Sharice David’s, a seat that we flipped blue in 2018
Find out, yes. Fuck around and find out.
Lololololololol fucking asshats
You can tell who just read the headlines by the ridiculous “anti-maga” rhetoric,
Being Anti MAGA means you are a normal and well adjusted person.
It’s not ridiculous to be anti Oligarchy
Reading the article you still might come away thinking it’s MAGA induced.
Most people still do get the vaccine, right along with their MMR, tetanus, and polio shots, an account of not wanting to drown in their own lungs from a preventable infection.
But I don’t think that quote is true given the info from the CDC links here in the thread.
