At least 146 measles cases have been identified in West Texas so far, including 20 hospitalizations and one death.
      • Hegar@fedia.io
        53·
        1 天前

        A less intentionally broken education system would reduce the scale of the harm done.

          • Hegar@fedia.io
            13·
            23 小时前

            I suspect that’s an effect of the under-education of our country. A more functional education system would probably produce fewer proudly ignorant people.

            • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              22 小时前

              Nah I grew up rich. My public school was ranked among the top ten in the nation at the time. It still produced a lot of dummies that have great jobs in finance and business.

              It isn’t under education. It is the cultural celebration of individualism in the face of the advice from the relevant academic sectors that is an issue. I know too many people here who will agree with the phrase “The experts don’t know what they are talking about” while overlooking the fact that they lack the education or experience to make that call.

  • Botzo@lemmy.world
    32·
    1 天前

    I know the article says this is just something going around on social media, but fuck me, sometimes I go to a dark place and think maybe measles should win. Maybe evolution needs to cull this dipshittery.

    Then I think of the kids who don’t have a choice. Why are people so fucking dumb?

    • Snot FlickermanEnglish
      35·
      1 天前

      Maybe evolution needs to cull this dipshittery.

      Okay here’s the issue, the parents who are pushing this are probably vaccinated for measles.

      As a smart kid born to absolutely dumb as living fuck parents, genetics does not mean two stupid parents automatically beget a stupid child.

      So in your proposed scenario you’re risking killing intelligent children whose worst crime was being born to absolute fucking idiots.

      • Botzo@lemmy.world
        19·
        1 天前

        Exactly, hence the last sentence of my comment.

        Evolution is cruel, and if that particular strain of stupid results in fewer successful offspring, maybe we’re better off as a species.

        I definitely read too much science fiction and think about this shit on a grand scale constantly, so sometimes I have to be reminded about being fucking human. And apparently these dumbass parents might need to be too.

      • echo@lemmings.world
        4·
        1 天前

        If good genetic material can be trained to be stupid as fuck which is a high probability with the parents in question. It’s unfortunate for the children, but probably best for society.

        • Snot FlickermanEnglish
          4·
          22 小时前

          Look I just can’t help not responding to this. I need to emphasize this.

          This is not how genetics actually works at all and what you are suggesting is fucking eugenics rooted in a complete misunderstanding of genetics. Go peddle what amounts to Nazi shit elsewhere fucking please. They misunderstood genetics in the same fucking way.

          • echo@lemmings.world
            2·
            19 小时前

            Maybe blow your load on the person who first inserted genetics into the conversation? I was just responding in-kind to them.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      4·
      24 小时前

      Problem is the parents are mostly fine, because they were vaccinated. The victims are almost all children AFAIK.
      Also if this continues, it will hit vaccinated people too, because vaccination is not 100%, but with high enough vaccination rates, it prevents the disease from spreading.

      Antivaxxers however prevent the rate of vaccination to be high enough in some communities!

      • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
        3·
        22 小时前

        This is contrary to what the article says:

        So far, 116 of the 146 cases are under the age of 18, with 46 being 4 or under. Only five of the 146 were vaccinated with at least one dose of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine.

        5/146 is ~3.4%

        You can get measles when vaccinated, particularly if you only had one dose (the standard for people vaccinated before 1989) but it’s much much less likely.