As someone very into genealogy, frequently finding families who lost most of their children in infancy to infectious disease, it would seem absolutely insane if we could go back and tell them we found a simple, harmless solution but now it’s routinely rejected.
We’ve lost the collective memory of actually watching a child die of a preventable disease, and it shows.
As a society we’re a bit like someone with an inhaler saying “why do I even take this? I haven’t had an asthma attack in years”
supergodmasterforce on
I posted something similar to this on a similar thread a while ago.
In the almost 50 years I’ve been on this Earth, I’ve never known anyone who had Measles.
I’ve looked up figures of recent Measles cases in the UK and a report for the first quarter of 2025 available on gov.uk shows there was 226 reported cases in England from January to March.
40 of them were classed as imported or import related so caused by people coming in to the UK already infected.
138 of the cases were in children aged under 10 and of those 138, only 11 of them had received a Measles vaccination.
Of these 226, 174 cases sought medical attention at hospital and of those 174, 88 were admitted to hospital due to the severity of their symptoms.
The same report from 2021 reads, and I quote:
“In the period between July and September 2021 there were no laboratory confirmed measles cases reported. The total number of laboratory confirmed measles cases in 2021 remains 2.”
In the UK, we’ve gone from 2 confirmed cases in 2021 to 226 confirmed cases in just one quarter of 2025.
Turbantastic on
I wonder if this is linked to the tin foil hat wearing anti vaccination brigade, they’ll be burning down the 5G masts again shortly….
currydemon on
I guess stupidity and selfishness are pretty contagious too.
Scientists and healthcare professionals have worked for years to eliminate these diseases and all it takes is some morons on Facebook to undo all that hard work.
Adm_Shelby2 on
We also had an outbreak of tuberculosis at an amazon warehouse recently.
Olivitess on
I knew someone who lost their seven year old due to measles, sweetest little girl.
The parents just did not realise how serious measles was, all happened fifteen years ago but I still think about it whenever the anti vaxxers throw a huff.
On_The_Blindside on
Absolutely mental.
The Anti-Vaxx crowd have the blood of every child that dies or is damaged by measels on their hands. Ridiculous.
TheLowestFormOfHumor on
Any parent who doesn’t vaccinate their kids should be prosecuted for child abuse.
Technical-Mind-3266 on
Anywhere I can see a breakdown of demographics? Do we know if there will be targeted campaigns to help reduce further outbreaks?
highwayuni2 on
So from working in paediatrics, I’ve seen a few cases of measles. It comes down to either missed vaccines (in most cases it was where a parent + child has immigrated to the UK and has failed to follow up the vaccine schedule) or parents flat out refusing to vaccinate their children. I’ve had a few arguments with parents who have refused to even give vitamin K to their newborn. It’s part of a growing trend of anti-intellectualism taking over
hime-633 on
Fuck me.
Slow clap for the anti vaxxers.
How can we get Penn and Teller onto the curriculum?
We can thank the uneducated mobs of idiotm mothers refusing to vaccinate their children because of the tripe they read on Facebook groups. Then they get patted on the back by the rest of their idiot friends who also do the same.
I know a young mother, about 24, who smoked, vaped, and drunk throughout her entire pregnancy, but vaccinating her child is apparently bad for it’s health.
Capital-Reference757 on
People really underestimate how infectious measles is. It’s considered to be THE most infectious disease known to man (although the omicron-variant of Covid is challenging that crown)
If a single person has it in a village, within a couple months the entire village will have it.
governmenttookmaporn on
Failure to vaccinate your children should be classed as child abuse and appropriate actions taken.
SableSnail on
It should be mandatory. They don’t just endanger their own children but they endanger everyone who is immunocompromised and by providing so many hosts to the virus we risk it mutating and rendering the vaccine ineffective.
The needs of the many outweigh the whims of the few.
life-is-a-simulation on
People refusing the vaccine should have all the benefits of society removed from them. They are literally endangering everyone else’s children as well as their own.
Clarac94 on
Social media has a lot to answer for, it’s very easy to slip down the rabbit role and COVID exacerbated it by x10 million.
There’s so little trust now in the Government and medical professionals that I have no idea how we’re supposed to claw things back. It’s the kids that will suffer, while their anti vax parents sit protected by their own vaccine.
Tetragon213 on
There’s a special place in hell reserved for that fraud Andrew Wakefield, who kickstarted the pro-disease movement.
Mario_is_paarthurnax on
The quiet part about this is that the measles outbreak in Birmingham that this refers to was overwhelmingly caused by vaccine skepticism in the Black African community. This isn’t conspiracy theory, and comes from a report published by the HSA, which I’ve linked – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12023730/.
These communities should be the focus of a wall-to-wall campaign to increase vaccination rates, as this is completely unacceptable.
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As someone very into genealogy, frequently finding families who lost most of their children in infancy to infectious disease, it would seem absolutely insane if we could go back and tell them we found a simple, harmless solution but now it’s routinely rejected.
We’ve lost the collective memory of actually watching a child die of a preventable disease, and it shows.
As a society we’re a bit like someone with an inhaler saying “why do I even take this? I haven’t had an asthma attack in years”
I posted something similar to this on a similar thread a while ago.
In the almost 50 years I’ve been on this Earth, I’ve never known anyone who had Measles.
I’ve looked up figures of recent Measles cases in the UK and a report for the first quarter of 2025 available on gov.uk shows there was 226 reported cases in England from January to March.
40 of them were classed as imported or import related so caused by people coming in to the UK already infected.
138 of the cases were in children aged under 10 and of those 138, only 11 of them had received a Measles vaccination.
Of these 226, 174 cases sought medical attention at hospital and of those 174, 88 were admitted to hospital due to the severity of their symptoms.
The same report from 2021 reads, and I quote:
“In the period between July and September 2021 there were no laboratory confirmed measles cases reported. The total number of laboratory confirmed measles cases in 2021 remains 2.”
In the UK, we’ve gone from 2 confirmed cases in 2021 to 226 confirmed cases in just one quarter of 2025.
I wonder if this is linked to the tin foil hat wearing anti vaccination brigade, they’ll be burning down the 5G masts again shortly….
I guess stupidity and selfishness are pretty contagious too.
Scientists and healthcare professionals have worked for years to eliminate these diseases and all it takes is some morons on Facebook to undo all that hard work.
We also had an outbreak of tuberculosis at an amazon warehouse recently.
I knew someone who lost their seven year old due to measles, sweetest little girl.
The parents just did not realise how serious measles was, all happened fifteen years ago but I still think about it whenever the anti vaxxers throw a huff.
Absolutely mental.
The Anti-Vaxx crowd have the blood of every child that dies or is damaged by measels on their hands. Ridiculous.
Any parent who doesn’t vaccinate their kids should be prosecuted for child abuse.
Anywhere I can see a breakdown of demographics? Do we know if there will be targeted campaigns to help reduce further outbreaks?
So from working in paediatrics, I’ve seen a few cases of measles. It comes down to either missed vaccines (in most cases it was where a parent + child has immigrated to the UK and has failed to follow up the vaccine schedule) or parents flat out refusing to vaccinate their children. I’ve had a few arguments with parents who have refused to even give vitamin K to their newborn. It’s part of a growing trend of anti-intellectualism taking over
Fuck me.
Slow clap for the anti vaxxers.
How can we get Penn and Teller onto the curriculum?
https://youtu.be/RfdZTZQvuCo?si=s7kFg6Gno5aIIMpT
We can thank the uneducated mobs of idiotm mothers refusing to vaccinate their children because of the tripe they read on Facebook groups. Then they get patted on the back by the rest of their idiot friends who also do the same.
I know a young mother, about 24, who smoked, vaped, and drunk throughout her entire pregnancy, but vaccinating her child is apparently bad for it’s health.
People really underestimate how infectious measles is. It’s considered to be THE most infectious disease known to man (although the omicron-variant of Covid is challenging that crown)
If a single person has it in a village, within a couple months the entire village will have it.
Failure to vaccinate your children should be classed as child abuse and appropriate actions taken.
It should be mandatory. They don’t just endanger their own children but they endanger everyone who is immunocompromised and by providing so many hosts to the virus we risk it mutating and rendering the vaccine ineffective.
The needs of the many outweigh the whims of the few.
People refusing the vaccine should have all the benefits of society removed from them. They are literally endangering everyone else’s children as well as their own.
Social media has a lot to answer for, it’s very easy to slip down the rabbit role and COVID exacerbated it by x10 million.
There’s so little trust now in the Government and medical professionals that I have no idea how we’re supposed to claw things back. It’s the kids that will suffer, while their anti vax parents sit protected by their own vaccine.
There’s a special place in hell reserved for that fraud Andrew Wakefield, who kickstarted the pro-disease movement.
The quiet part about this is that the measles outbreak in Birmingham that this refers to was overwhelmingly caused by vaccine skepticism in the Black African community. This isn’t conspiracy theory, and comes from a report published by the HSA, which I’ve linked – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12023730/.
These communities should be the focus of a wall-to-wall campaign to increase vaccination rates, as this is completely unacceptable.