Philadelphia blames measles outbreak on people declining vaccines, failing to quarantine

thehill.com Philadelphia blames measles outbreak on people declining vaccines, failing to quarantine

The city of Philadelphia is blaming the recent measles outbreak on people declining to get vaccinated and failing to follow quarantine recommendations, after its Department of Public Health confirm…

The city’s Department of Public Health has confirmed at least four cases and is investigating two other possible infections.

“Unfortunately, we are seeing cases of measles that have spread to vulnerable individuals including young children due to people declining vaccination and also failing to adhere to quarantine recommendations,” Cheryl Bettigole, Philadelphia’s health commissioner, wrote in a Thursday press release. “Philadelphia is a city where we believe in a duty to take care of each other.”

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What do you mean "blames"?? No it is the cause of the outbreak.... people not getting vaccinated are the cause. Period. We have decades and decades of no measles with people being vaccinated...then dipshits magically thought they new better and stopped...and now we have outbreaks. All evidence points to them ...not some vaccine resistant strain.

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- Measles doesn't seem to mutate easily and still be infectious since the vaccines clearly worked so well, but it'd be better if we didn't try our luck by letting it grow in all these unvaccinated people.
  
  The last thing we need is to have to re-vaccinate people if it does happen to mutate to evade our immunity. It'd be a disaster in today's climate.
  
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I'm all for personal choice but if you choose to not have your children immunised, you're not the one who suffers.

The children and those who can't receive vaccinations do.

Which is why this infuriates me. People are harming others so that in most cases they can gain clout with other conspiracy fuck nuts.

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- There's no personal choice when you live in a community when your choice affects such community. You don't have a choice not to follow the laws, etc. There should be no choice not to vaccinate your kids. Don't want to vaccinate? Move to another country.
  
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- When it comes to public safety, personal choice ends when you choose to take part in society. These people are selfish scum who refuse to give a fuck until they are personally affected.
  
  You don’t get to choose, there’s a reason schools required vaccinations.
  
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- In the wild, some animals eat their young. This is the human equivalent. Some people just aren’t meant to exist. Whether it be because of their own stupidity, or the unfortunate luck of being born into stupidity.
  
  We can do what we can to educate these idiots, but at the end of the day- they’re still going to do what they want.
  
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  It’s not simply “oh they will die, it’s their fault.”
  
  It doesn’t end there, they spread the diseases farther allowing them to mutate. It negatively impacts everyone around them.
  
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  They're not the only victims of their shitty decisions.
  
  There are folks with health conditions that make them much more susceptible to catching illnesses that could affect them long-term or kill them.
  
  I am the one being told to stay home if I'm "so afraid of getting sick". They are not being told to stay home when they're openly and freely putting folks at risk of dying?
  
  They get a choice. I don't.
  
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Misinformed, gullible, idiotic people, the article failed to add.

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- Maybe we can invite them to a rabies/ebola party and lock the door.
  
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Polio isn’t far behind. FUCK YOU ANTIVAX SCUM

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There is probably measles parties..

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- Maybe we can invite them to a rabies/ebola party and lock the door.
  
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Darwinism.

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Big pharma undermined its own credibility by pushing opiates and other flawed medicines. The conspiracy theorists brought a tiny spark to a huge pile of debris and now there's a tire fire burning forever. I hope the short term gains and wholesale loss of lives were worth it for these sick individuals.

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- You're completely ignoring Andrew Wakefield, who started the entire false "vaccines cause autism" scare, and the politicization of both vaccines and science by (mostly) red-hatted idiots who get their "science" news from people and corporations who get money/power by deliberately lying to their viewers.
  
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- What the fuck does the opioid crisis have to do with vaccines???
  
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  Nothing of course. The point they made was that pharma has undermined its credibility by pushing opiates.
  
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- Opiates are effective, as are vaccines. What a brain dead take you have here. Nobody is chasing the vax high, the vax is demonstrably effective.
  
  The only people seeing the over prescription of opioids as a reason to doubt all medical science is a fucking MORON like yourself
  
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