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46 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Mexico has issued a U.S. travel warning due to the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas and elsewhere. With testing, the health authorities in Mexico linked cases in a border state in Mexico (560) to the west Texas outbreak. Last year, the entire country had 7 cases.

I don't blame them.

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3 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Tomorrow's update will likely add a new county as Denton has entered the chat. Link below.

I guess it was a grand day out for the afflicted as they visited several restaurants, a Rangers game, and a Walmart among other locations.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/measles-denton-exposure-rangers-game-church-restaurants/3829983/

Don't be surprised if there's a lag on it getting added. This story is from last Wednesday, and they still haven't added Scurry County into the official tally. That might be because they haven't been able to tie it to the Gaines County outbreak yet. Unsure why it's not in the mix.

https://www.reporternews.com/story/news/2025/04/23/measles-now-in-scurry-county-as-health-officials-investigate-abilene-texas/83237530007/

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The local health department did not state further information regarding the case--such as whether the strain was from the Texas outbreak or from international travel. They cited privacy issues.

 

**Thanks @bolverk--I was typing while you responded.

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We are the dumbest fucking first-world country on this planet.

RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research | WIRED

A research facility within the US National Institutes of Health that is tasked with studying Ebola and other deadly infectious diseases has been instructed by the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to stop research activities.

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FRIDAY UPDATE:

20 new cases since Tuesday in El Paso (+6), Upshur (+5), Eastland (+2), Lubbock (+2), Dawson (+1), Ector (+1), Hardeman (+1), Hockley (+1), and Potter (+1) counties.
*Bolded counties previously reported no cases.

DSHS still doesn’t mention Denton or Scurry counties, which makes me wonder if other cases we haven't heard about in the media are also present but haven’t been tallied by the state yet (or they’ve been determined to be unrelated).

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26 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

 

Have no fear, we’re pivoting way from evil vaccines, and HHS is going to focus on REAL health issues, like….chemtrails.
For real. I wish I was making that up.
But I’m not.

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When asked by an [Dr. Phil] audience member how to keep her and her loved ones safe from the poison in chemtrails. Secretary Kennedy said:

 

“That is not happening in my agency. We don’t do that. It’s done — we think — by DARPA and a lot of it now is coming out of the jet fuel. Those materials are put in jet fuel. I’m going to do everything in my power to stop it. We’re bringing on somebody who’s gonna think only about that, find out who’s doing that and hold them accountable.”

 

When you realize that the average (maybe even above average) American is someone who would intellectually enjoy allotting some of their free time to sitting in a Dr. Phil audience--and everything this administration does is catered to manipulate them--nothing surprises me anymore.

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5 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

What a fucking retard.

 

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With the United States facing its largest single measles outbreak in 25 years, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for the disease, including vitamins, according to an H.H.S. spokesman. The decision is the latest in a series of actions by the nation’s top health official that experts fear will undermine public confidence in vaccines as an essential public health tool.

The announcement comes as Mr. Kennedy faces intense backlash for his handling of the outbreak. It has swept through large areas of the Southwest where vaccination rates are low, infecting hundreds and killing two young girls. On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 930 cases nationwide, most of which are associated with the Southwest outbreak.

Critics have said Mr. Kennedy has focused too much on untested treatments — such as cod liver oil supplements — and offered only muted support for the measles vaccine, which studies show is 97 percent effective in preventing infection.

The decision to put more resources into potential treatments, rather than urging vaccination, could have grave consequences at the center of the outbreak.

“We don’t want to send the signal that you don’t have to get vaccinated because there’s just a way to get rid of it,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at the Brown University School of Public Health.

Scientists have already thoroughly studied various vitamins and medications as potential treatments for  measles, said Michael Osterholm an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota.

Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for the measles virus, which can cause pneumonia, making it difficult for patients to get oxygen into their lungs, and brain swelling, which can cause blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities.

“It’s not that there’s been a lack of studies,” he said.

Measles patients are typically offered “supportive care” to help make them more comfortable while the virus runs its course, like Tylenol to bring down their fever, supplemental oxygen and IV fluids.

The decision to look for new treatments is meant to help people who chose not to vaccinate, the H.H.S. spokesman, Andrew Nixon, said. He added that the C.D.C. still recommends the measles, mumps and rubella shot as the most effective way to prevent measles.

But, he said, “Our commitment is to support all families, regardless of their vaccination status, in reducing the risk of hospitalization, serious complications and death from measles.”

As an example of such a community, Mr. Kennedy pointed to the Mennonites in West Texas, who have experienced the brunt of the cases and hospitalizations in the current outbreak.

Mr. Nixon said the C.D.C. will collaborate with universities to test new treatments for a “host of diseases,” which may include a combination of existing drugs and vitamins. The news of this effort was first reported by CBS News.

Public health experts were baffled by Mr. Kennedy’s decision to hunt for new treatments, rather than endorse shots that have decades of safety and efficacy data. They said this seemed to contradict his longstanding focus on disease prevention instead of treatment.

“This is akin to saying, ‘Go ahead and eat whatever you want, don’t exercise, smoke like a chimney — we’re going to invest all of our resources in heart transplants,’” said Dr. Jonathan Temte, a former chairman of the C.D.C.’s vaccine advisory committee.

Over the course of the current measles outbreak, Mr. Kennedy has offered inconsistent, and at times contradictory, messaging about the M.M.R. shot. At some points, he has described the vaccine as “the most effective way to prevent the spread of measles.”

Other times, he has questioned its safety: “We don’t know the risks of many of these products because they’re not safety tested,” he said in an interview with CBS News last month.

Doctors in West Texas have said Mr. Kennedy’s focus on treatments, rather than vaccines, has already made their jobs difficult.

Early in the outbreak, he said on Fox News that he had heard of “almost miraculous and instantaneous recovery” with treatments like cod liver oil, which he said was “the safest application of vitamin A.”

While doctors sometimes administer high doses of vitamin A in a hospital to manage severe measles, experts do not recommend taking it without physician supervision.

Shortly after, doctors said they had encountered measles patients who had delayed critical medical treatment in favor of staying home and treating themselves with some of the supplements Mr. Kennedy promoted. Some children with measles were given toxic levels of vitamin A, they said.

Dr. Osterholm said Mr. Kennedy’s plan also assumed that people’s beliefs about vaccines were fixed, when in reality, clear information about their purpose and safety had encouraged thousands of vaccinations in past outbreaks.

Despite Mr. Kennedy’s claims that Mennonites have “religious objections” to shots because they contain “fetus debris,” historians who study the community say it has no religious doctrine that bans vaccination, and vaccine experts say there is no fetal tissue in the M.M.R. shot.

Local doctors have instead pointed to misinformation about the safety of the shot — which Mr. Kennedy has helped perpetuate — as the primary reason their Mennonite patients opt their children out of vaccination.

 

 

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4 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Because -- and let's be clear about this disparity -- RFK is smarter, and has thought of really super important and serious things to deal with measles.....that centuries of doctors and researchers, including some of the most brilliant minds in the world, most of whom are sincerely dedicated to improving public health and saving lives....never even considered.  https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/history-of-vaccination/history-of-measles-vaccination

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Measles is one of the most contagious diseases humans have ever faced. An ancient disease, it was described as early as the 9th century by Persian physician and scholar Abū Bakr Muhammad Zakariyyā Rāzī (also known by the Europeanized name Rhazes). 

It became more widespread as global exploration increased in the 16th century. In 1757, Scottish doctor Francis Home discovered that measles was caused by a pathogen: he transmitted the disease to healthy individuals using the blood of infected patients and demonstrated that it was caused by an infectious agent.

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Before the advent of vaccination, measles had long been endemic around the world – and it remains a worldwide epidemic disease. In developed countries, advances in the health of communities  – including better nutrition – meant mortality rates had dropped by the twentieth century. 

The availability of antibiotics, while powerless against the virus itself, could also help fight complications such as bacterial pneumonia. Yet common complications such as ear infections, croup, diarrhoea and pneumonia caused thousands of hospitalizations annually, and encephalitis, a more serious complication involving swelling of the brain, could result in brain damage, loss of hearing or vision, and death. 

Globally, mortality rates remained high, with approximately 30 million cases and over 2 million deaths occurring each year.

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In 1954, a measles outbreak at a boarding school just outside Boston, Massachusetts provided an opportunity for doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital to try and isolate the measles virus, taking throat swabs and blood samples from infected students. 

The culture that Thomas Peebles, MD obtained from 11-year-old schoolboy David Edmonston successfully led to the virus’s cultivation and enabled doctors to create the first vaccine against measles.

John Franklin Enders, Peebles’s boss, often called ‘the father of modern vaccines’, developed the measles vaccine from the ‘Edmonston-B’ strain, named after David and used as the basis for most live-attenuated vaccines to this day. 

Enders and his team tested their measles vaccine on small groups of children from 1958 to 1960, before beginning trials on thousands of children in New York City and Nigeria.  In 1961 it was hailed as 100% effective and the first measles vaccine was licensed for public use in 1963.

All of those people involved in the story above?  Morons, clearly intent on doing evil and hurting people.  RFK?  Super-brain-genius, here to save the day, and to walk boldly up to centuries of physicians who tried everything as children under their care slipped away, and say "hey, have you tried cod liver oil?  Also, where's my Nobel Prize for medicine for just now thinking of that?"

Dumbest.

Fucking.

Timeline.

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Dr. RFK Failson.

He's surrounded by disinformation specialists who are using him to grift their "healthcare" remedies and achieve their dream to get rich like the quack Joseph Mercola did by touting "alternative" medicine. Mercola's net worth (according to a 2017 article) is over $100 million.

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North Dakota says, "Hold my caesar!"

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North Dakota now has four confirmed measles cases, the Department of Health and Human Services said Monday.

All four cases are in Williams County in northwest North Dakota involving people who were not vaccinated, said Molly Howell, immunization director for the department.

The department announced Friday the first confirmed case, a Williams County child who is believed to have contracted measles from an out-of-state visitor. The three additional cases are people who had contact with the child, Howell said.

 

Kids.  All kids.

https://northdakotamonitor.com/briefs/north-dakota-confirms-3-new-measles-cases-bringing-total-to-4/

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22 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

China is just sitting back watching the US crumble. Waiting for the right time to press the button releasing the next biological weapon. 

It came from the lab. 

Posted
8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

This shit is going to get bad, isn't it?

I suppose it helps that the North Dakota population only numbers about fifty people, but joking aside, I believe there are several Mennonite communities there (as well as South Dakota) and have been there for many many years and the northwestern part of the state is also home to oil production which can bring traffic coming and going. The article didn't mention any of that, but measles being so contagious and the US having these pockets of low immunization rates likely means that the Lubbock health official who mentioned that it would take at least a year to bring case counts down was not wrong. If citizens don't vaccinate, then this will return to a seasonal virus that we, the people, will have to endure. Because we're stupid like that.

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9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

This shit is going to get bad, isn't it?

Not for the 98% of vaxxed people who vax "took."  Sucks for the children whose idiot parents didn't get them vaxxed, but we can't fix that.

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I suppose it helps that the North Dakota population only numbers about fifty people, but joking aside, I believe there are several Mennonite communities there (as well as South Dakota) and have been there for many many years and the northwestern part of the state is also home to oil production which can bring traffic coming and going. The article didn't mention any of that, but measles being so contagious and the US having these pockets of low immunization rates likely means that the Lubbock health official who mentioned that it would take at least a year to bring case counts down was not wrong. If citizens don't vaccinate, then this will return to a seasonal virus that we, the people, will have to endure. Because we're stupid like that.

ND has Hutterites, not Mennonites but the result is the same. I am not away of any Hutterite colonies in Williams county though.  I'm gonna associate it with just rando idiot parents.

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1 hour ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

I suppose it helps that the North Dakota population only numbers about fifty people, but joking aside, I believe there are several Mennonite communities there (as well as South Dakota) and have been there for many many years and the northwestern part of the state is also home to oil production which can bring traffic coming and going. The article didn't mention any of that, but measles being so contagious and the US having these pockets of low immunization rates likely means that the Lubbock health official who mentioned that it would take at least a year to bring case counts down was not wrong. If citizens don't vaccinate, then this will return to a seasonal virus that we, the people, will have to endure. Because we're stupid like that.

I lived in ND. There’s more people in Austin proper than the whole state, but they have a lot of really isolated communities, so if it’s making its way into really isolated communities, it’s widespread.

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24 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Not for the 98% of vaxxed people who vax "took."  Sucks for the children whose idiot parents didn't get them vaxxed, but we can't fix that.

ND has Hutterites, not Mennonites but the result is the same. I am not away of any Hutterite colonies in Williams county though.  I'm gonna associate it with just rando idiot parents.

I'm familiar with *Hutterites, and I believe they outnumber the Mennonite congregations in North Dakota by quite a bit, but given the number of Mennonite groups  just across the border in Canada (Manitoba, but I think they are clustered further east), it wouldn't have been a huge stretch but I think you're correct in that it's more likely a rando transmission that found an opportunity in an unvaccinated host.

 

 

*very fascinating history they have.

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We can empathize and still disagree with people.  North Dakota is filled with the decedents of people who had be oppressed by their governments (kings, czars, etc) for centuries.  It is to be understood they carry a generational revulsion to Government.*  We all agree that 3 generations in, they need to get over it, generally trust authority, trust science, but we also understand why they struggle to.  I'm still gonna judge parents for not keeping their kids safe, but I understand why.

*"Germans from Russia" (also called "Volga Germans")  People from Germany invited to settle in the Volga river area in the 1700's.  The Czar promised they would be left alone.  Just farm and produce and pay some taxes and we'll let you keep your language, religion, etc., and TOTALLY won't draft you into our army or anything.  RIIIGHT... Not long in, they'd go to the schools and take the kids.  "We'll give them back when you "volunteer" to fight for us (meat waves) in the war.  The Volga Germans later managed to get themselves expelled from Russia and not to the Gulags.  Went to ND because that is all that was left.  Tough people, they, and we need to respect that.

Also.  Russia has always been run by shitbags.  Taking kids to compel you to join the army?  Yeah they still do that.  Man, fuck those guys.

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14 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

I'm considering a booster Fauci Ouchy.  Should I worry about catching autism?

No. You should worry about this administration getting a hold of your vaccination records and deporting you to Libya for having gotten the booster. 

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10 minutes ago, Deej said:

No. You should worry about this administration getting a hold of your vaccination records and deporting you to Libya for having gotten the booster. 

I'm pretty sure the many covid vaccines I've already received are in those records.  Besides, I wouldn't mind the food in Libya.

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4 hours ago, drt said:

Small government scraping all your data. 

17 minutes ago, Js1 said:

This was the real "covid vaccines are tracking monitors" all along

Projection

The Office Thank You GIF
 

This is Big Government.  Just wait until this database leaks.  

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On 5/7/2025 at 6:41 AM, Parliament said:

We can empathize and still disagree with people.  North Dakota is filled with the decedents of people who had be oppressed by their governments (kings, czars, etc) for centuries.  It is to be understood they carry a generational revulsion to Government.*  We all agree that 3 generations in, they need to get over it, generally trust authority, trust science, but we also understand why they struggle to.  I'm still gonna judge parents for not keeping their kids safe, but I understand why.

How long do you think a generation is? As I understand it most of the immigration you are talking about was ~1910. That's a lot longer than 3 generations. Doesn't mean we shouldn't have empathy but that's also a lot of time to stay an intentionally ignorant asshole.

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32 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

I liked him as a poster, but I've never seen covid break a brain faster

thank god I kept my mouth shut when I had long covid. one of the most influential experiences of my life - my brain was FUBAR'd for seven months.

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