The U.S. is in the grips of a historic measles surge, with more than 3,000 measles cases reported in 45 states across the country since the start of 2025. So far, two unvaccinated children have died from the disease. At least 920 people have been infected in South Carolina, and a similar number in Texas. In both states, nearly all infected individuals were unvaccinated.
Now Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is urging Americans to get the measles vaccine as the country is on the brink of losing its measles elimination status.
“Take the vaccine, please. We have a solution for our problem,” Oz said on CNN’s State of Union on Sunday. “Not all illnesses are equally dangerous, and not all people are equally susceptible to those illnesses. But measles is one you should get your vaccine [for],” Oz said.
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Dr. Oz needs to go back to Emerald City and die.
Yeah turns out there’s a reason for that whole MMR thing
Mumps and Rubella are no walk in the park either as I understand it. We are so spoiled we don’t even know how good we have it with these vaccines, because of the vaccines we don’t appreciate vaccines.
because of the vaccines we don’t appreciate vaccines
It’s like all these things - I’ve had people tell me climate change won’t amount to anything because “look at the hole in the ozone layer, it just went away”. It went away because we did something about it! Same with the millennium bug. People worked round the clock fixing it before it was too late.
The ozone hole has not disappeared. It is shrinking, but there is also a new threat to the ozone layer: the large wild fires are a major problem.
It’s not a crisis that features on front pages though, and the main drivers at the time were identified and eliminated (Montreal protocol). I didn’t know wildfires had an effect, that’s interesting, and worrying.
Yeah mumps is real bad, and iirc rubella is generally not too bad after birth, but if a pregnant person gets it it’s known for causing birth defects.
Vaccines are amazing. Like I get that some like covid and smallpox are unpleasant, but even those are better than the disease. And while many people may not like the idea of giving their kid a vaccine for an std, the hpv vaccine prevents cancer.
HPV is everywhere too. Granted the vaccine I believe is only for one or more strains of hpv, while there are a couple of hundred total. But basically anyone that’s had sex with anyone has some type of hpv, most people don’t show any symptoms for it. But yeah the more problematic ones are a big cause of oral cancers, some anal cancers, cervical, etc.
Also in old age it can do other stuff, like eat into your brain, idk how common that is but it has happened.
Girls who were HPV vaccinated now have almost zero cervical cancer 10 years later.
Free cure for cancer… But nah.
I remember being puzzled that my Christian (“pro-life”) parents were so against the HPV vaccine, especially considering that they don’t have any daughters.
Turns out they’d prefer women to die of cervical cancer for having sex than to even suggest to a 15yo girl that sex before marriage isn’t the most evil thing to ever exist.
Shit is just so painfully fucking stupid and hateful
Same thing at my daughter’s school, “the HPV vaccine turns daughters into sluts”.
incredible to see this level of ignorance in the 21 century.
Like you literally don’t even need to tell them it’s for an STD if that’s your prerogative. Just tell them it’s to prevent cancer.
It’s so fucking stupid I hate it so much
I think men and woman can get oral cancers from those same strains, and others, of hpv too. Like throat cancers. But there are like hundreds of strains, near 200 just in people.
Boys should get it as well.
True story - mother in law, Deep South railed against it. She never stood a chance. But we said, effectively “wait, so cancer runs in your family, and this prevents a type of cancer, what kind of monster doesn’t want their grandkids protected from at least some cancer”
“B-but… Vaccines BAD! Vaccines give babby autism!”
Don’t forget about the 5G tracking microchip you can easily detect if you bring a metallic items near your arm.
Now that it’s been years since anyone brought this up, it sounds completely insane and stupid. I think someone should have documented all of this absolutely hilarious trash that used to float around the internet during the pandemic. Future generations are not going to believe how wild it got.
Hey now, my cell phone coverage has been great since the vaccine, even in the upstairs corner!
Reminds me of a video where a guy was freaking out because magnets would stick to his arm. Comments said ‘put some talcum powder on your arm and try again’ so he did; magically the magnets wouldn’t stick anymore…
That was hilarious. There were so many videos like that.
Let’s add wifi and cell towers giving you migraine, cancer and whatnot before everyone got a mobile. Say 1995-2000 was probably the best moment to hear all those morons tell you how dangerous the “radiation” was.
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And now wifi is everywhere, but we still haven’t died. Go figure…
The diseases that vaccines prevent are so horrible and spreadable that even if vaccines did cause autism, it would still be completely worth it.
Sorry, most recent science indicates Tylenol and the amount of foreskin.
No, that was 2025, scientific advances now reveal a small green elf living in your stomach as the cause.
My lil’ elf is a pompous SOB. His name is Claudius and he thinks he can make my shit smell better.
This is one of the few instances of AI slop that I actually chuckled at
I didn’t generate it, just saved it from somewhere someone else posted it. Can’t help but agree with you.
I wonder if we can get someone to recreate it without the use of AI.
Id prefer stick drawing to AI slop. You can convey an artists emotional intent with a stick drawing. This is kinda bland in its execution.
You wouldn’t have to beg people if you didn’t fund and propagate medical misinformation? Just a thought…
Eat shit Mehmet.
Go fuck yourself oz. You helped and continue to help this happen. It was certain the first time we let these trash humans decide not to let their kids get the vaccines. They put people in jail for letting their kids walk a block to the store on their own but these horrible people get a free pass.
Measles is spreading because this administration made vaccines a terrible word when Trump was in charge in his first term with COVID. Trump and his group of ass-faces are WHY America is in this crisis.
The US led the world in Covid deaths because vaccines were why people were dying, not a preventable disease. Now people who have hitched their wagon to that orange turd want to try and right the ship?
Fuck off, Oz. People are dying in the most horrible ways because of people like you just wanting an easy pay day siding with this Trump administration. You’re the problem. Too late now to go back on that.
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You get it.
Dipshits spend 15 years dismissing and spreading fud about vaccines, only to beg their people to get a vaccine. Too little, too late.
The measles vaccine has been applied to hundreds of millions of people already, maybe billions even. It is one of the safest vaccines ever. You have to be a moron to not have it.
You have to be a moron to not have it.
Maga/QAnon enters the chat.
Just saw a news article. Someone in my area with measles and contagious went to the gym, a couple of grocery stores, out to eat. People don’t give a fuck about anyone else.
Well hello to you too my fellow triangle resident
A percentage of American have been emboldened with “ain’t my problem”.
It happened when they made COVID-19 political.
Nothing like making everyone’s health and well-being a political hot-button issue. I missed the day that every politician suddenly knows more than every doctor and research scientist combined.
“You’re all protected by your precious vaccines, right?”
Guy who advocates against vaccines shocked at disease outbreak
Oprah has promoted so many evil people. She’s culpable for so many deaths. Don’t look up the time she had John of God on her show.
You retched fuck.
You might have meant wretched. “retched” is a single-syllable word meaning dry heaved. I mean, I will believe you if you told me he makes you gag.
That was a typo and I did mean wretched, however it’s not impossible that he came into existence by being vomited up by some Eldritch entity.
No need for supernatural evil when his character and behavior can be explained by perfectly ordinary money and fame.
At this point I’m not sure there’s a difference anymore.
I’ve noticed an uptick in people spelling it without the w, and even changing the spelling to “ratchet”. I’m not sure if it’s a joke and at thins point, I’m too afraid to ask.
Hey, don’t get retched, pass me that wretched ratchet, I got some rat shit on my shirt and now I’m also retched.
We are talking about the removal of a silent W which is probably there because someone who wore breeches wanted to make literacy harder for the poor.
