(Yes, that’s the Liberian flag. You think the people who would call measles that pay attention to minor details like which country they’re supporting?)

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 28 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Want 1950s government? Enjoy your 1950s diseases. 🤗

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I'm doing my own research on the disease. Not that I'm scholastically or intellectually able to grasp microbiology or have any concept of epidemiology other than this YouTube channel that tells me things that make me feel safe, but I'll be damned if I let some college kid tell me what's real and what's not.

Some might say it's cutting off my nose to spite my face, but jokes on them, I already had my nose removed due to a fungal infection I got from using shoe polish and mayonnaise as a cure for warts my cousin told me he heard worked. Real shame about losing my cousin a few years back, never did find out the real reason for it, hospital would only say it was COVID to cover up for whatever it really was.

What's important to me, poor, uneducated and with no control over my life or outcomes in a world around me is that someone gives me an outlet for all my frustration, and if I'm lucky I get to watch them suffer. It's all I've got.

-America, 2024

[–] formergijoe@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He stopped at a Buccees in New Braunfels? You should lead with that rather than the universities.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

As a recent expert on NPR said, "If a person with measles walks into a room of unvaccinated people, 90% of those people now have the measles."

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

But I wanna hear from the non-experts.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

This is borderline in need of a /s. A staggering number of people think being self-taught automatically makes you smarter than a highly-educated person.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Oh lord, we’re boned

[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago

tldr - is RFK Jr going down to check on this? Breathing deeply and shaking hands all 'round?

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was really hoping that area of the texas NM border was isolated enough that it would stay contained :/

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

Right? And why was this person going around while infected. Doesn't measles have pretty visible symptoms? I just read the timeline and I was at the riverwalk the day after and the bucc-ee's they were at 10 hours later. Thankfully I got re-immunized recently (2 years ago) so hopefully that's a lot better than having been vaccinated as a kid.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 6 points 22 hours ago

Because these kinds of people are developmentally incapable of thinking about their actions beyond how it immediately impacts themselves

[–] 10001110101@lemm.ee 3 points 22 hours ago

If I understand correctly, measles can be very contagious 4 days before rashes appear (through respiratory droplets from coughing). I think a person could mistakenly think they just have a cold or flu (or Covid) before rashes appear. It can also have a ~12 day incubation period without symptoms (but I don't think it's very contagious before symptoms appear).

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

This makes me want to get my titer drawn for sure.