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,

Rightwing Zombie Terrorists Attack America

“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.

Wisconsin Republicans would like you children to die by: Guns, Meningitis, or Heat

The day after Independence Day I recently read the worldwide temperature was the highest ever recorded at 62.9 Fahrenheit.  These records only date to 1940.  So right there Republicans can dismiss evidence of the rapidly warming planet.  Meanwhile, the New England area is experiencing torrential rainfall and a 1-in-a-1000 year flooding event...  Strange how these Once every Thousand year events happen yearly or even more often.

But, not satisfied with environmental catastrophes, Republicans in Wisconsin voted to spread diseases in Junior High,

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature on Wednesday voted to stop Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration from requiring seventh graders to be vaccinated against meningitis.  The Legislature’s vote also makes it easier for parents to get an exemption from a chicken pox vaccine requirement that is in place for all K-6 students. Evers’ administration wanted to require parents seeking a chicken pox vaccination exemption to provide proof that their child has previously been infected.

These are not the dreaded mRNA vaccines which Republicans demonized under the rubric as "the Jab" to fuel their phony propaganda campaign of died suddenly and millions wmore will die soon!  Chicken pox vaccines have been around since the 1970's and meningitis is CDC recommended for 11-12 year olds. 

Part of this is the decades long rightwing effort to undermine and destroy Education in the United States, and more broadly the on-going Republican effort to cause dysfunction in the government while making government totally unresponsive and unavailable to large swaths of American society; as say when the Supremacist Court ruled against Student Debt loan relief or baned Universities from addressing historical inequities in education.  This is why the Betsy DeVos funded Moms 4 Hitler group so lovingly embraced him; conservatives seek nothing less than the destruction of the Department of Education, tight restrictions of higher learning, and the indoctrination of the rest of America into accepting their Totalitarian dictates. 

So, when you couple this with every Republican policy; e.g. the mass proliferation of firearms (guns being the #1 cause of preventable deaths in children and teens), denial of medical care to women, reductions in every facet of the meager social safety net, and the rank climate change denial, it illustrates how much and how viscerally Republicans hate your children.  They really hate your fucking children but, being Republicans they do like fucking your children... over.

It also illustrates how little thought Republicans give to the future.  Crank that AC to 65!  Grow that Sod! Drill Baby Drill!  Drain those Marshlands!  Dump whatever you want into the Great Lakes!  Slash and burn those forests!  Fuck the Future! Republicans know that with Billionaires funding and influencing the Supreme Court and with the Boomer Generation getting older and feeling more and more entitled to draining as much resources as they wish, just like the fvcking Boomers have done their entire pampered lives, they can win enough elections to entrench their political power, until the day comes when Republicans have to use all those Guns they've been stockpiling to take Political Power by force.

Did Donald Trump kill Diamond? Did Traitor Trump's Plandemic and Operation Warp Speed Vaccine kill Millions? Why did the Republican Party attack America with Covid-19?

At this point it must be asked;  How much was Donald Trump paid by the Chinese Communists to help spread Covid-19 (which is simultaneously nothing but a mild cold and a deadly bioweapon engineered by the Chinese) in the United States and then fast track a Deadly Vaccine in order to Destroy America?

The Republican Party needs to answer the question of why they pushed a wild untested experimental Vaccine created solely by Trump via Operation Warp Speed who told his followers to drink bleach and stick light bulbs their asses?

There was some gaudy and shameless "eulogy" to Diamond, of "Diamond and Silk" (TM) in which her death wasn't due to her being unvaccinated against Covid but, because all of the Sheep who took the JAB are sloughing off genetic material called Viral Shedding which Diamond inhaled and died from.

Rightwingers & Republicans demanded an investigation but, I doubt they will investigate the man who has claimed to be solely responsible for developing the Vaccine and continues to take credit for the job he did he using the Vaccine to fight Covid?  Instead, the Republican investigation will conclude that Dr. Fauci, in cahoots with Hunter Biden and the Chinese used Gain-of-Function to craft Covid and then released it in America in a purposeful accidental Plandemic to undermine America's former Greatest President.  Thus, Donald Trump should have won in 2020 even though he actually did win and the loss was because the Chinese sent bamboo infused phony ballots on floating container ships which were off the California coast due to the 2020 Covid Shut Down waiting to be unleashed on the United States.  Therefore, it is hereby Resolved that Donald John Traitor Trump was the Real Winner in 2020.

The Republican House is going to be a shit show of ridiculous resolutions and votes down the Party Line (which is one reason "George Santos" will never be censored and removed by a 2/3rds House Vote no matter what) but, it wll make for fantastic television news coverage for the Corporate Media.

The Corporate Media's job is too make Republicans seem like a viable and rational party (Major Traitor Greene is currently on a media blitz to soften her Fascist image) and too make the rightwing agenda of intolerance, hatred, oppression, and adulation of the rich seem like a reasonable choice for Americans.

Right now we are engaged in a Great BothSides media blitz about classified documents, which covers up the Trump post-Presidency classified document crimes.  And along with the BothSides narrative touches on the second maneuver in the Republicans scandal playbook which so greatly help them get away with their crimes, Non-Stop Criming

Trump showed that they way through any scandal is to just keep committing new scandals.  These revelations got short shrift by the Corporate Media:

• On Truth Social TFG claimed to have sent the FBI and DOJ to Florida in 2018 to rig the election for Governor.  Certainly, this feels like dig at Ron DeathSentence to; keep him in his place or undermine his 2022 election 
• Trump wanted to weaponize the IRS to launch investigations of his political foes.
• Trump and his Department of Justice had a standing orders to field agents that everyone in Portland was an Anarchist Antifa and should be reported as such.

Those are just a one sentence on 3 major scandals...  Instead... what Trump did during his time in Office and since was simply deny his crimes and wait for the newest revelation which he would then deny and move on to continuing to claim to have won the 2020 election because repetition and the mayfly memory of the media work to his supreme advantage.

Trump and Conservatives killed a Million Americans

While despicable Republicans are busy being racists*, preening for the cameras, and slandering Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the United States just passed The Second Anniversary of Covid-19 reaching mainstream attention.  The United States also reached and surpassed the grim milestone of 1,000,000 official American deaths.  

Sadly, Covid deaths have been vastly undercounted and it's probable we reached a million dead from Covid months ago...  It's also testament to the conservative efforts to present a contrafactual version of history and the rightwing propaganda efforts to undermine mitigation and vaccination efforts.

To this day Trump, powerful rightwing voices, and elected Republicans do all they can to obfuscate and undermine efforts to combat Covid and to convince Americans to do things ineffective and often times harmful instead.  The GOP is unquestionably the Pro-Covid Party.

The odious Rand Paul is beaming about having forced the Senate to vote on a repeal of the travel mask mandate, chortling in his March 15th press release about defeating the "unelected bureaucrats imposing an ineffective mask mandate".  Conservatives social media accounts are festooned with the same collection of Fauci=Jim Jones memes, Candeath Owens quotes, "Communism" fear-mongering, ivermectin/hydroxychloroquine/vitamin C/immune system nonsense, and sadly pitiable pleas for thoughts & prayers when the duped and misled American succumbed to the conservative campaign of misinformation, contracted Covid and ended up dying a terrible death on a ventilator system.

So, at this point most rational people have given up trying to convince the Anti-Vaxx cadre and have become resigned to the conservative efforts to undo all sensible and necessary precautions.  Take care of yourselves and loved ones, because if Republicans are back in charge of the government when the next Pandemic hits you will be on your own.

*- Remember Republicans are all Reactionaries, so in response to the Civil Rights Era and successful anti-Racism campaigns the GOP has decided to be overtly racist and bigoted while accusing black people, white liberals, and Democrats of being the real racists.  Clearly, Cruz, Hawley et al see much more value in appealing to the overt racism conservatives enjoy than making a ham-handed show of diversity in an attempt to peel off some black voters to them.

Whooping (Cough)! There it is!

What happened in Los Angeles when a vaccination ordinance was submitted to a popular referendum is typical of what would happen anywhere under the same circumstances. The ordinance was rejected, and smallpox spread through the town. - H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy, pg.57

Outbreaks of Whooping Cough (Pertussis) occasionally occur in America. Back in June California had an 5 deaths and 910 cases attributed to the highly contagious disease. The 5 deaths in June were infants of Latino parents and, most likely, had no access or inclination to seek out Health care and Vaccinations.

However, what we are witnessing today is a spread beyond the normal expected areas, as evidenced by the outbreak of 20 cases in two schools in the fabulous North Shore school districts in Wilmette and Winnetka. And thanks to the Anti-Vaccination Mob being moneyed is not a protection.

The Anti-Vaccination Mob has succeeded in reviving and strengthening vanquished diseases. And while the current Mob gained traction from the completely false and dishonestly written 1998 British Paper by the wholly discredited Dr. Andrew Wakefield in which he blamed Autism cases on vaccinations, a large part of the blame for the recent anti-vaccination movement is due to the steadily anti-science narrative, most often championed by Republican Party.

Most scientific theories have negative consequences for Republican Political Power, as such, those theories must be destroyed. But, ignorance doesn't merely belong to Republicans. Celebrities, most famously Jenny McCarthy, and liberals Bill Maher and Robert Kennedy Jr, immune to normal lives have thrown themselves behind the movement. The Anti-Vaccination Movement crosses political affiliation because it is based on the sloppy thinking, which is the natural state of the human brain. The Scientific Method isn't natural and had to be invented to overcome the human predilection to falsely ascribe patterns where they are none and to engage in fallacious post hoc ergo propter hoc thinking.

Many of the techniques used by the Anti-Vaccinators were garnered from the Anti-Evolutionists. I recommend going over the Science Blog Respectful Insolence by ORAC who examines and dissects the various and numerous Anti-Vaccination proponents who are engaging in propaganda, distortions, pseudoscience and outright lies.