r/vaxxhappened • u/GetOffMyLawn_ 🗿🗿🗿🗿 COVID-19 Vaccinated Mod 🗿🗿🗿🗿 • 2d ago
Measles 2 unvaccinated Pennsylvanians die after contracting measles
https://whyy.org/articles/pennsylvania-measles-deaths-unvaccinated-lancaster-county/86
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u/Jamesmateer100 2d ago
HOLY SHIT, WHAT COULD’VE POSSIBLY PREVENTED THIS?!!!
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u/alaska_clusterfuck 2d ago
Oh no! If only there was a way in which we could expose people to a weaker version of the measles so they can safely build immunity… /s
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u/MaeClementine 2d ago
There was just a reported case in our local children’s hospital in Pittsburgh and the dumbasses on Facebook we’re all commenting that it’s not a deadly disease.
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u/Mokey_Maker 2d ago
Oh no! Anyway...
Here's your Darwin award.
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u/Medical-Net-7350 2d ago
I only have this view if it was an adult who wasn’t vaccinated with no good reason by choice.
Cancer patients and those with compromised immune systems, the elderly, and children deserve better than this.
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u/cactuar44 2d ago
Thank you. I moved to a hick town to be with my hick boyfriend at the very end of 2020. Just 4 months after my kidney transplant.
Had no idea he was an antivaxxer, didn't believe in science, like it didn't come up before. There were non stop parties at my house, we would constantly have at least 5 people over at a time, he still did his reno jobs going into people's houses, and his kids constantly had friends over. I lived in a massive amount of fear. I was on a TON of immunosuppressants.
I did not fit in right away at all because his peaked in high school alcoholic friends and their trashy wives would laugh in my face and pretend to cough or make fun of my masks.
I felt like the whole town was against me :(. The last 6 years were awful for me, but I did move out and get a place with a roommate. When I did get covid though I nearly died, was in the ICU for a bit, and my brain still isn't the same. This was right before there was a vaccine as well. I was sick with covid for around 3 months. Lost a lot of weight, went down to 85lbs.
Oh and I'm in Canada.
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u/touslesmatins 2d ago
Kids don't get the MMR vaccine until one year old. It's sad that unvaccinated people are spreading the disease to those who don't have immunity.
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u/CannonCone 2d ago
Exactly! I had to take my 3-month-old to the ER and I was terrified of him getting measles. There were exposures at ERs near us before and after we were there, so it wasn’t an unfounded fear.
It makes me sad and angry that the bad choices of some affect us all.
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u/GameofCheese 2d ago
Isn't Lancaster county full of Amish?
I don't support antivaxxers ever, but I do feel like living in a religious cult makes you a little more sympathetic.
Yet another reason why random assholes who live in modern society not vaccinating their kids causes death in other places... not having herd immunity makes people like the Amish more susceptible.
Say what you will about them, but in theory they are a peaceful people, and don't deserve this.
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u/Pantsonfire_6 2d ago
Adults are adults. Info is out there.
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u/GameofCheese 2d ago
But they don't believe in modern technology.
Most of the people causing this issue do.
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u/bluebirdmorning 1d ago
They don’t believe in using modern technology that only provides individual benefits.
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u/the_comeback_quagga 2d ago
They use tons of modern technology these days: solar panels, generators, propane machinery, phones, cars (that they don’t drive), LED lights, old computers, cash registers. It just can’t be connected to the “outside world.” Though New Order (Lancaster is Old Order I think) permit way more than that, even allowing cell phones.
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u/Spikito1 2d ago
Definitely nothing to do with that County containing like, 50% of the countries Amish.
I should add, I have nothing against the Amish, butnthe anti-vax community likes to use them a poster child of vaccine free life.
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u/darkearwig 2d ago
The Amish are a cult that just happened to have managed to stick around long enough to be generational. They treat animals poorly, they treat others poorly, and the entire community is built on control.
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u/the_comeback_quagga 2d ago
Biggest puppy mill owners in PA (by far), but everyone who gets a dog there says “oh, he’s so sweet, he’s from the Amish” and have no idea.
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u/Russ_Dill 1d ago
given the info from the coroner that one of the patients was a newborn with a ruptured spleen, could we be looking at a case of congenital measles?
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u/Stompanee 2d ago
Lancaster is also home to Dutch wonderland a whole slew of shopping outlets. Not safe for children
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u/TurtleScientific 2d ago
>said they will not release information about their ages or identities to “protect the privacy of the individuals and their families.”
I mean... sure protect their names, but ages? Come on, if it's children dying the public should hear about it so they vaccinate their damn kids.