So here's some horrifying depressing news
to share with everyone.
The measles outbreak has now spread the 24
states in this country.
880 confirmed cases up 41 new patients from
just last week.
So right now a disease that we had officially
declared declared eradicated in 2001 or excuse
me, 2000 we as a country said, guess what?
We have killed measles for good in this country
now, yes, we had a few outbreaks since then
since we declared it dead.
But overall, those were exceedingly rare.
A couple of cases here and there for the last
1718 years and suddenly because this anti-vaxxer
movement has gained so much steam in spite
of a complete lack of evidence to support
any of their claims, we now have almost half
the states in this country that have at least
one person with a confirmed case of the measles.
And yes, folks, this is the fault of the anti-vax
or movement.
This is a movement that I have zero respect
for and absolutely believe that they are causing
irreparable harm to this country.
Because in case you're not aware of this,
in case you don't know how measles works,
measles, uh, what it does to your body in
addition to, uh, the disease itself, it also
basically wipes out the memory of your white
blood cells.
So other diseases that you may have been immunized
for or you may have gotten, and therefore
we're immune to, you're no longer immune to
those either.
That's actually part of what measles does.
It wipes out your body's, uh, antibodies.
So it makes you more prone to getting other
diseases later down the road, even if you
had already been immune to them.
So measles is kind of like the anti-vaxxers
of the anti-vaxxers because it wipes out all
the immunity you already had in you.
But here's the thing, and this is the most
important thing to know about the anti-vaxxer
movement.
They're no different than the climate change.
Denialist absolutely no different whatsoever
because there is no scientific research available
at all, not a single piece of it that suggests
that vaccines cause harm.
More importantly, the guy who made the link,
uh, Dr Wakefield, Andrew Wakefield, who said
that, oh, there is a link between vaccines
and autism.
Yeah, he was discredited because he made it
up.
He was stripped of his license and is known
as a total fraud in the medical community.
And that was the only piece of information
that anti-vaxxers had that gave them a little
bit of clearance to spread their phony claims.
Except now we know it's also a total fraud.
It's true.
It's not accurate.
No scientific, good body researcher, human
being whatsoever has been able to replicate
those results that Wakefield allegedly came
to even a study put together by anti-vaxxers
themselves prove that vaccines are okay.
And another point, which we've hammered on
before is that anti-vaxxers actually think
that somehow having a kid with autism is worse
than having a kid with "dead."
That is insulting and disgusting.
But so is the anti-vaxxer movement.
And I make no apologies for saying that because
all of the scientific evidence available shows
that vaccines are good.
They do not cause autism.
In fact, if you learned a little bit more
about science, you would understand that that
is scientifically impossible to do, but you
did succeed in one thing.
You brought back a disease that we had officially
as a country declared dead 19 years ago.
So I guess you got that going for you.
