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CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours ago

Pennsylvania asks CDC for emergency help as measles outbreak spreads

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Pennsylvania asks CDC for emergency help as measles outbreak spreads

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CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours ago
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State reportedly asks for emergency assistance as state Democratic governor spars with US health secretary
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  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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    Kennedy has questioned whether deaths linked to the measles outbreaks since he took office were caused by the virus or by another condition. He also instructed the CDC not to include Pennsylvania’s reported fatalities in the national measles death count last month, a move health experts called “highly unusual” and warned it could lead the public to underestimate the dangers of measles.

    /facepalm

    Kennedy, meanwhile, has accused Shapiro of politicizing Pennsylvania’s outbreak and failing to seek out federal assistance.

    Oh. FUCK YOU.

    Fuck you and this entire administration and the idiotic voters that enabled donnie coming to power. This is from the movement whose party has politicized everything, including not only the weather but also every aspect of science, including our response to the pandemic and to vaccines for diseases for things like measles.

    To then have the audacity to claim others are the ones politicizing things.

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      What’s most infuriating: the near-90 MILLION registered whom chose not to vote at all.

      https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-11-15/how-many-people-didnt-vote-in-the-2024-election

      https://www.environmentalvoter.org/updates/2024-was-landslidefor-did-not-vote

      https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/how-many-people-did-not-vote-2024-election-ff7c8a

      https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/how-many-registered-voters-did-not-vote-last-election-69b7fe

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        I think the most infuriating people are the ones who are doing all this. Is it just that you find the less aggressive folks easier to pick on?

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    Bro WTF, they should start isolating infected people, this will only get worse. Measles is like one of the most infectious diseases we know of, it has like 90% or something ridiculous like that infectivity rate.

    Unvaccinated people should not be left to roam about infecting more people. What a shit show.

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      Oh, stop being so political about this. Also, But Mah Immune System!

      /s

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