Measles

[JoeWeber 2,794]

  On 3/27/2025 at 1:55 AM, billvon said:

"US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has centered his response to the outbreak on vitamin A, even suggesting in a Fox News interview that it could work 'as a prophylaxis.' . . .The hospitalized children with the toxicity were all unvaccinated."

Up next - chloroquine.

I'm thinking infect the little nippers with HIV to help shrink their brains to counter the swelling from measles. Then a couple of weeks of yoga and a regimen of glucosamine with a chondroitin buffer and it will be over as soon as summer comes. 

[JerryBaumchen 1,418]

  On 3/27/2025 at 1:55 AM, billvon said:

"US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has centered his response to the outbreak on vitamin A, even suggesting in a Fox News interview that it could work 'as a prophylaxis.' . . .The hospitalized children with the toxicity were all unvaccinated."

Up next - chloroquine.

Hi Bill,

Are you telling me that they are not recommending sticking a light bulb up your ass as to how to deal with it?

I mean it worked so well with Covid.

Jerry Baumchen

[kallend 2,098]

  On 3/27/2025 at 9:06 PM, JerryBaumchen said:

Hi Bill,

Are you telling me that they are not recommending sticking a light bulb up your ass as to how to deal with it?

I mean it worked so well with Covid.

Jerry Baumchen

Perhaps if Herman Cain had done that he'd still be alive.

[normiss 840]

  On 3/27/2025 at 11:40 PM, kallend said:

Perhaps if Herman Cain had done that he'd still be alive.

He clearly had his head in the way.

[kallend 2,098]

400 in TX as of Friday. 

480 total in US.

[kallend 2,098]

Pertussis too. 6000 cases in the US so far in 2025:

In Louisiana, two infants have died of pertussis in the past six months, according to the state health department, the first deaths from the disease in the state since 2018.

Louisiana has had 110 cases of pertussis reported so far this year, the health department said – already approaching the 154 cases reported for all of 2024.

Cases are on the rise nationally, too. There were more than 35,000 cases of whooping cough last year in the US, the highest number in more than a decade, and 10 people died — six of them less than 1 year old. Experts say they see peaks and valleys with these kinds of illnesses over the years, but there have been about 6,600 cases already in 2025, almost four times the number at this point last year.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/health/whooping-cough-pertussis-louisiana/index.html

 

[kallend 2,098]

  On 3/30/2025 at 6:46 PM, kallend said:

400 in TX as of Friday. 

480 total in US.

481 in Texas today.

607 total in US

[GeorgiaDon 378]

  On 4/4/2025 at 7:02 PM, kallend said:

481 in Texas today.

607 total in US

Nothing to worry about.  It'll disappear as soon as summer comes.  Just like that other disease (cough cough cough).

[kallend 2,098]

Another unvaccinated child dies of measles.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2xyyj9w5o

Totally unnecessary deaths.

[dogyks 9]

  14 hours ago, kallend said:

Another unvaccinated child dies of measles.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2xyyj9w5o

Totally unnecessary deaths.

Look at it as Darwinian.  Stupid people shouldn't breed in the first place.

Given that a four year degree is now what a High School diploma used to be, do you favor another generation of Freshmen who can barely spell their own names?

Stupidity should be lethal - though it should be for potential parents rather than kids.

[TriGirl 325]

I saw the heat graph on Bluesky that shows the incidents of measles over time, in about 30 states.  The drop-off after kids started getting vaccinated was like turning off a water hose -- an initial decline and then a near immediate stoppage across the board.  That dramatic of a drop is not a correlation it's causation.

I haven't yet seen the story, but I heard on my way in to work this morning that Kennedy has had a change of messaging and is going to be encouraging vaccines now -- at least for measles.  Looking forward to reading more reporting on it.

[kallend 2,098]

  13 hours ago, dogyks said:

 

Stupidity should be lethal -

That would take out most MAGA supporters.

[JerryBaumchen 1,418]

  13 hours ago, dogyks said:

Look at it as Darwinian.  Stupid people shouldn't breed in the first place.

Given that a four year degree is now what a High School diploma used to be, do you favor another generation of Freshmen who can barely spell their own names?

Stupidity should be lethal - though it should be for potential parents rather than kids.

Hi dogyks,

Why stop at just stupid people?  Why not include the n****ers, the kikes, the chinks, etc?

I have seen some dumb stuff here, but that one contends for the prize this year.

Jerry Baumchen

PS)  And, just how far down that Stupid Scale would you go?  Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[billvon 3,050]

  9 hours ago, JerryBaumchen said:

Why stop at just stupid people?  Why not include the n****ers, the kikes, the chinks, etc?

It is notable that eugenics was quite popular in the US between the 1890s and the 1930s.  In 1896 Connecticut passed a law that prohibited anyone who was "epileptic, imbecile or feeble-minded" from getting married, in an attempt to keep them from breeding.  In 1920, INS official Lothrop Stoddard recommended that immigration of Jews be curtailed; he claimed that these immigrants would "pollute the national gene pool" if their numbers went unrestricted.  The Immigration Restriction League was active during this time, and tried mightily to get the number of inferior immigrants (i.e. Jews, Africans, Middle Easterners) reduced.  This would protect "the superior American racial stock" from dilution from the "inferior races" that had low IQ's, no work ethic and degenerate morals.

There was some challenge to this from the more liberal Americans of the time, who felt that anyone should get the same chance the other immigrants got.  American eugenicists tried to come with definitions for "fit" and "unfit" immigrants but struggled because differences in tested IQ were vanishingly small between average American populations and immigrants.  They solved this problem by claiming that social mobility was indicative of one's genetic fitness.  Thus, someone who has climbed the social ladder and was now rich/popular/powerful was by definition smarter than someone who was not in this position.  Since most economic immigrants came to the US dirt poor, this was an easy way to keep Jews/Middle Easterners/Asians out.  (And since the average American-born idiot would not be deported for that reason, this solved the problem of average IQs being about the same.)

Then World War II broke out, and suddenly conservatives did not really want to be associated with eugenics any more.  At least, until recently.

[JerryBaumchen 1,418]

  8 hours ago, billvon said:

It is notable that eugenics was quite popular in the US between the 1890s and the 1930s.  In 1896 Connecticut passed a law that prohibited anyone who was "epileptic, imbecile or feeble-minded" from getting married, in an attempt to keep them from breeding.  In 1920, INS official Lothrop Stoddard recommended that immigration of Jews be curtailed; he claimed that these immigrants would "pollute the national gene pool" if their numbers went unrestricted.  The Immigration Restriction League was active during this time, and tried mightily to get the number of inferior immigrants (i.e. Jews, Africans, Middle Easterners) reduced.  This would protect "the superior American racial stock" from dilution from the "inferior races" that had low IQ's, no work ethic and degenerate morals.

There was some challenge to this from the more liberal Americans of the time, who felt that anyone should get the same chance the other immigrants got.  American eugenicists tried to come with definitions for "fit" and "unfit" immigrants but struggled because differences in tested IQ were vanishingly small between average American populations and immigrants.  They solved this problem by claiming that social mobility was indicative of one's genetic fitness.  Thus, someone who has climbed the social ladder and was now rich/popular/powerful was by definition smarter than someone who was not in this position.  Since most economic immigrants came to the US dirt poor, this was an easy way to keep Jews/Middle Easterners/Asians out.  (And since the average American-born idiot would not be deported for that reason, this solved the problem of average IQs being about the same.)

Then World War II broke out, and suddenly conservatives did not really want to be associated with eugenics any more.  At least, until recently.

Hi Bill,

Yet, we survived.  AMAZING!!!!!

Jerry Baumchen

PS)  In 1973, I bought a 1/3 acre just outside of the city limits of Portland to build a house on.  The deed [ originated about 1946 ] said that the property could not be sold to any Jews, Native Americans, Blacks, on & on.  Damn good thing I am a white male.

[billvon 3,050]

  On 4/4/2025 at 7:02 PM, kallend said:

481 in Texas today.

607 total in US

Measles Are Great Again!

[kallend 2,098]

  8 hours ago, billvon said:

Measles Are Great Again!

I'm going to steal that.

[nigel99 555]

  8 hours ago, billvon said:

It is notable that eugenics was quite popular in the US between the 1890s and the 1930s.  In 1896 Connecticut passed a law that prohibited anyone who was "epileptic, imbecile or feeble-minded" from getting married, in an attempt to keep them from breeding.  In 1920, INS official Lothrop Stoddard recommended that immigration of Jews be curtailed; he claimed that these immigrants would "pollute the national gene pool" if their numbers went unrestricted.  The Immigration Restriction League was active during this time, and tried mightily to get the number of inferior immigrants (i.e. Jews, Africans, Middle Easterners) reduced.  This would protect "the superior American racial stock" from dilution from the "inferior races" that had low IQ's, no work ethic and degenerate morals.

There was some challenge to this from the more liberal Americans of the time, who felt that anyone should get the same chance the other immigrants got.  American eugenicists tried to come with definitions for "fit" and "unfit" immigrants but struggled because differences in tested IQ were vanishingly small between average American populations and immigrants.  They solved this problem by claiming that social mobility was indicative of one's genetic fitness.  Thus, someone who has climbed the social ladder and was now rich/popular/powerful was by definition smarter than someone who was not in this position.  Since most economic immigrants came to the US dirt poor, this was an easy way to keep Jews/Middle Easterners/Asians out.  (And since the average American-born idiot would not be deported for that reason, this solved the problem of average IQs being about the same.)

Then World War II broke out, and suddenly conservatives did not really want to be associated with eugenics any more.  At least, until recently.

Playing devils advocate, although it’s interesting that Windsor isn’t towing the MAGA line where they want more babies not less. 

I believe the stats show that the poor and disadvantaged tend to have more children than the wealthy and more educated. I know Musk is doing his best to single handedly make up the difference:) I’m not equating poor with stupid. But shouldn’t we be trying to address the balance? 

I’d like see the tax structures changed to make it easier for one parent to stay home for the children, rather than child care credits etc. I believe a lot of our modern problems are due to the breakdown of the family unit and children having a parent looking after them. I’m not suggesting it should be the mother, either parent is fine.