Measles, Migrants, and MAGA infections

Every now and then Republicans and rightwingers inadvertently admit that they do not believe the bullshit they spout;  this is evident when it comes to vaccines and germ theory.

While the Faith Healer General Joseph Lapado was telling parents it's okay to send your kids to school with measles and it's okay to send your unvaccinated kids into a cloud of miasma because Measles is a Woke Plot other Republicans across the country while decrying unvaccinated migrants being allowed into the country.

Just 9 years ago stalwart Reactionary outlets like National Review decried the growing AntiVaxx community;

The anti-vaccine movement has led to an increase in preventable infectious diseases, such as measles. Now, an infected person at Disneyland apparently caused nine children to get sick–and eight had not been vaccinated.  This is reckless and irresponsible.

The ardent right-winger who wrote this would be pilloried these days because nowadays every good conservative believes vaccines are poison and a plot to alter your DNA.  

Back in 2000 the MMR vaccine was so effective that Measles was considered eradicated in the United States.  Then came Andrew Wakefield's absolute bullshit lies about MMR as the leading to the cause of Autism and white people decided there was enough Herd Immunity around that they wouldn't "poison the blood" of their precious white child.  After all they never heard of anyone suffering from measles!

And so being 3 generations removed from the trauma of losing an infant, toddler, or young child to a curable disease, Parents have set their children up to suffer from diseases long since thought eradicated or at least conquered.  I can't imagine what the grandparents of these people would think knowing their descendants are wantonly and willfully ignoring what seemed like medical miracles to people years ago.

So, Chicago is now at the beginning of a Measles outbreak and the most affected are very young children.  Of course, in Chicago many unvaccinated children come from poor households or homeless families without easy access to health care for children.

School registration should go hand in hand with facilitating access to immunizations, said Dr. Olusimbo Ige, Chicago Department of Public Health commissioner. “We want people to be enrolled in school and we want to give them the opportunity to settle in while also simultaneously assessing their vaccination needs and then connecting them to meet those needs,” Ige said as the agency fielded questions on social media Wednesday.

Now contrast that with Traitor Trump's ignorant declaration at his Richmond Virginia Bloodbath Rally,

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“I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate."

Bloodbath, indeed. As always do not expect Republicans to be of any help in addressing vaccination because Anti-Vaxx is now a solid plank in the edifice of Fascism that Republicans are erecting. Measles is a Million times more infectious than Covid and leads to long-term illnesses but, the MAGA infection has completely consumed the Right and turned them into rampaging zombies. ➡

Of course, the rightwing response to these Measles outbreaks in Florida, Chicago, and elsewhere will be to demonize Migrants (I won't dignify the despicable rightwing term "Illegal Immigrants") because rampant racism remains the first and foremost plank of Republican ideology.  Trump and his gaggle of ghouls have already promised to round-up and "deport" millions of Migrants by militarizing local police departments and building concentration camps.

I can not express strongly enough how destructive this outright NAZI program will be for everyone; communities, police raids, police officers humanity, the illness and deaths of those captured and held.  If implemented this would destroy the United States both metaphorically and fundamentally.  But, don't expect any intellectual honesty from conservatives who claimed everything President Obama or Biden has done is the real Fascism whilst they plan to steal the 2024 Presidential Election by whatever means possible and murder millions of people.