Warning of measles outbreak in London

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 14 Jul 2023 at 14:29

Warning measles could hit tens of thousands in London

The rest of the UK is considered to be at low risk of the virus taking off.

www.bbc.co.uk

Yikes!

A disease we had pretty much eliminate looks like it could return in force.

Now unless I am mistaken we haven't seen any massive positive benefit from all these children who haven't been jabbed.

With the very real risks that come from measles I wonder how many parents could end up beating themselves up if their children catch it and end up with complications.

Will a proper outbreak and some poor sods being impacted reverse the general anti vax movement. Or will they just go full blown CT over it.*

* Where going CT seems to be the easiest way to deal with it instead of admitting you got it wrong.

SixTwoSix · 14 Jul 2023 at 14:44

Doesn't help you still get people parroting Wakefields nonsense all this time later and propagating rubbish across social media - it's a topic that really does get my back up.

CaptainRAVE · 14 Jul 2023 at 14:55

SixTwoSix said:
Doesn't help you still get people parroting Wakefields nonsense all this time later and propagating rubbish across social media - it's a topic that really does get my back up.

This. There was a huge outbreak where I grew up, coinciding with the excessive reporting of the MMR fake news and resulting non-existent reporting when it was found to be fake news.

smilertoo · 14 Jul 2023 at 14:57

We're getting a lot of diseases returning, but to say why makes you a racist Hitler lover.

Minusorange · 14 Jul 2023 at 14:59

If only we had a vaccine for Measles, all these people could be saved

Ayahuasca · 14 Jul 2023 at 14:59

Yeah but vaccines do cause autism, I know because Shirley on Facebook shared a completely legit post about it.

Jokester · 14 Jul 2023 at 14:59

Measles jab uptake fell through the floor the last 3 years for some reason.

CaptainRAVE · 14 Jul 2023 at 15:03

Jokester said:
Measles jab uptake fell through the floor the last 3 years for some reason.

The irony is that vaccines have made people feel too safe. If people saw their kids and neighbours suffering the effects of these diseases they’d soon get vaccinated. Not that we ever want to see that again, which brings us to the importance of education.

Jokester · 14 Jul 2023 at 15:08

CaptainRAVE said:
The irony is that vaccines have made people feel too safe. If people saw their kids and neighbours suffering the effects of these diseases they’d soon get vaccinated. Not that we ever want to see that again, which brings us to the importance of education.

I don’t think it was for a lack of want of vaccination, our health service didn’t see it as a priority at the time.

Minusorange · 14 Jul 2023 at 15:10

Ayahuasca said:
Yeah but vaccines do cause autism, I know because Shirley on Facebook shared a completely legit post about it.

It's a shame there's no vaccine for stupid

Diddums · 14 Jul 2023 at 15:16

This is what happens when you have a society where everyone's opinion matters and everyone gets a medal.

The reality is that some people shouldn't be allowed near sharp objects or shoelaces, but you can't tell the that because the twitter police will come and get you.

Jim Jefferies said it perfectly. I can't post it but go on youtube and type in "Jim Jefferies Dumb Runts" (similar to runts obvs)

Haggisman · 14 Jul 2023 at 15:18

Jokester said:
I don’t think it was for a lack of want of vaccination, our health service didn’t see it as a priority at the time.

That must be a regional thing, we had no issues getting our youngest vaccinated at the usual times

Minusorange said:
It's a shame there's no vaccine for stupid

Plenty of cures though

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 14 Jul 2023 at 15:18

Minusorange said:
It's a shame there's no vaccine for stupid

Durex.

mrk · 14 Jul 2023 at 15:20

I watched a mini docu about measles a while back and how one company had the vaccine rolled out but because of all the CT nonsense at the time that followed, the company pulled the plug on it and said sod it.

And here we are today, a diseas that WAS on the verge of being eradicated, but because of a sodding few, isn't.

SixTwoSix · 14 Jul 2023 at 15:31

My best friends daughter has autism and his ex-wife is adamant that the MMR jab caused it, you can't have a reasoned conversation with her, as she's the one with the autistic child, she automatically knows better. Despite the fact there were complications during the birth and both mum/daughter came close to dying, as well as some oxygen deprivation with the daughter but that definitely has nothing to do with it of course.

mrk · 14 Jul 2023 at 15:32

You can't change stupid, you will get dragged down to their level rather than the other way round.

Lightnix · 14 Jul 2023 at 15:33

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Durex.

Unfortunately requires a certain presence of mind.

Efour · 14 Jul 2023 at 17:31

smilertoo said:
We're getting a lot of diseases returning, but to say why makes you a racist Hitler lover.

loool i wanted to say this politely but this is better and true.

VincentHanna · 14 Jul 2023 at 17:42

smilertoo said:
We're getting a lot of diseases returning, but to say why makes you a racist Hitler lover.

Efour said:
loool i wanted to say this politely but this is better and true.

So your theory/conclusion (I don't want to put words in your mouth) is the increase is due to migrants?

My conclusion is that's it's down to stupid people still believing debunked Conspiracy Theories about vaccines (And yes, that will include some migrants who also hold these views)

NVP · 14 Jul 2023 at 17:47

It's probably both, however the proportions will be weighted towards the former.