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Vaccines work, measles is a fucking awful disease and too many people in the world, but particularly America, are fucking stupid
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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In America we have so many morons that they actually control reality now. I guess the smart ones weren’t smart enough.
The stupids always outnumber the smarts.
I'm fine with ppl being stupid. They just need to be willing to listen to others more educated than them
Europe needs to quarantine, if not ban American tourists and immigrants....
Hate to break it to you but vaccine skepticism is high in Europe: https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-vaccine-skeptic/
This idiocy recognizes no country borders.
Or demand proof of testing before onboarding towards EU, at the least.
I'm sure half the population (vote for which one in the comments!) will just get fake papers or an exemption from their pastor...
I always roll my eyes when I read hyperbolic comments like this; both the incident rate and the absolute case count is higher in Manitoba Canada than the entirety of the United States and if that isn't enough the European Region has a skyrocketing case count with over 120,000 cases reported to the W.H.O. in 2024 which is more than 10 times the cases in the United States.
So the numbers say that the Europeans should ban themselves first, then the Canadians, and then the Americans.
You might have missed the point that this statistic includes central Asia for some strange reason. Western Europe has way less cases, and nearly all of them in Romania.
Western Europe has way less cases...
Fair enough, so lets move those goalposts to the west a bit.
Here's the EU data from April 2024 to 31 March 2025, which seems to be the latest available. You'll note that in that time period there were 26,222 cases. Romania, Italy, Germany, France, and Belgium reported the most.
...and nearly all of them in Romania.
True but Romania is part of the EU and so they count against the numbers. Just like Texas does for the US.
Looking at the data we can plainly see that in 2025 the EU has reported more cases of measles every month than the US has in all months combined. The EU had 4482 cases by the end of March while the US is still under a thousand partway into May.
For funsies though let's remove Romania from the data completely and see what it looks like.
Of 26,222 cases Romania accounted for 21,620 which leaves a remainder of 4,602. On the United States side there has been 935 cases YTD and there were 285 in 2024 for a total of 1,219 in the past 16+ months.
I've linked and quoted Official Sources from both the EU and the US and the data clear; the EU is having a worse measles outbreak than the US.
Lest you feel I'm picking on the EU I'm also going after Canada because they too have had more cases of measles since just last October than the US has had in the past 16+ months. You can find that data linked in my post here.
While all of this sounds true, none of the EU states has a health minister of the caliber of RFK... At least that I heard about.
Nor who has enacted policies as stupid as he has.
So this data might not remain true very long...
I wrote my original acidic comment in the hope to shake some sense in the US and make them realize how nonsensical these policies are, I'm European and well aware we have our own crackpots, I have some familial relationships with a few of them...
Forbid all travel in and out of the US, and bring back lazarettos for those who must travel.
Here we go again.. another plague brought on by worshiping a false god. Yet Christians will still forever suck the orange doofus’ dick. (Even if you believe in anything like that which obviously it’s bs)
A plague on all headlines telling me "what to know". I'll decide for myself what to know, and once that's done, I may, or may not, read your article to see if it contains information about any of those things. A pox on you, nitwit clickbait headline-writers.
What is Kennedy's plan for combating these measles outbreaks?
Cod liver oil and farm work.
You ever see the movie 28 days later? There is a sequel coming out the we will be living through the 3rd one here shortly.
It's starting to spread in southeastern Manitoba as well. Southeastern Manitoba is a low vaccine intake area in our province.
"Starting" is somewhat of an understatement; since October of 2024 Manitoba has had over 1,200 measles cases. In that same time frame the United States has had 951.
With less than 1% of the US population Manitoba has nearly 30% more cases between 10/1/24 and 5/1/25.
I honestly had no idea there was even a problem in Manitoba until I read your comment. Now I'm wondering why the US is headline news for this.
As of today, MB has reported 20 confirmed measles cases
As of April 19, all of Canada has 1177 measles cases (158 of which are probable and not confirmed)
Where are you getting your info from?
Where are you getting your info from?
The OP's article.
"One in Ontario, Canada, has resulted in 1,243 cases from mid-October through April 29. "
It's literally the 2nd sentence of the 3rd paragraph.
Additionally Canada's Health Minister has updated the total to 1,384 as of today, May7th.
If your own Health Minister being quoted in a Canadian News Source isn't good enough then I guess this conversation is over.
This is strange. I'm trying to find the full stats, however this says as of Nov 9 2024, Canada had a total of 130 cases. Granted this was only 6 provinces, but the 6 most populated.
The spike lately is certainly way more than I was aware of, though everything I could find about MB specifically has 20 total in 2025 so far.
This is strange.
Let me know when you figure it out. I'm happy to revisit.
You may be correct on MB though. I pulled that number from a news article that I can't get into again because I exceeded my daily threshold of free ones. I'll just concede that I'm incorrect on the case count in MB specifically, at least until I can get into the dang article again.
Oh dude, no worries. I was wrong about the totals too. There's way more cases in Canada than I was aware of. It's weirdly difficult to find the specifics. Actually really surprised there's fewer than 1000 in the US overall as well.
Nurgle blessings spread
I wish all nations in the world could agree to build a huge wall around the US and just let them fester and rot in there, and leave the rest of us in peace.
Banned from my instance for sidebar rule violation. Innocent Americans don't deserve that. Grow up.
Thats just a larger scale version of escape from New York.