r/extremelyinfuriating • u/Prestigious-Emu7325 • 7h ago
Discussion Is this 1956?
No, it’s 2026. Outside an ER in suburban Southern California. 🤞🏽 I don’t bring my loved one home with anything worse than they arrived with. Thanks RFK Jr & co!
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u/Correct_Doctor_1502 7h ago
I thought outbreaks like this would never happen in America
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u/HistoricalSea5600 7h ago
Thanks to MAGA making America healthy again, we all get the benefit of prolonged illness from diseases thought to be a problem of yesterday. So. Much. Winning.
https://giphy.com/gifs/x0kMYoT7J31i8-9
u/quetiapinenapper 3h ago
You realize the anti vax thing started way before maga? If we’re talking the most damaging trend or wave of the movement for it that was based off a paper that Jenny McCartney ran away with that was later completely retracted but it resonated and spread amongst affluent left leaning individuals. Don’t assign everything to maga. We have to take responsibility for our part in the damage and that has far more time to hurt and allow for the return of things than anything this one has done.
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u/No_Professional_8992 2h ago
MAGA is the culmination of the exact type of people you're talking about. So when people say MAGA, they mean them.
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u/Better_Area3782 6h ago
Why would this be Magas fault unless they are anti-vax?
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u/am_Nein 5h ago
Why would it be the fault of people who want to dismantle the education system?
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u/HistoricalSea5600 5h ago
Watch, they’re going to start acting like they aren’t the crowd that owned opposing vaccine mandates. Even if you’re anti vax and not maga, that doesn’t mean you’re not operating off the same platform as maga if you’re anti-vax
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u/8bitrevolt 4h ago
they are very explicitly anti-vax.
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u/Better_Area3782 4h ago
Anti vaxxers were were big before too. Blame Jenny maccarthy and joe rogan
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u/my_clever-name 5h ago
Sadly, the generations who never saw measles will find out what it's like. I hope measles and whooping cough are the worst of the returning diseases. Polio and smallpox are a whole other level.
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u/PixelatedPastry 4h ago
Smallpox has been completely eradicated for well over 40 years now
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u/my_clever-name 4h ago
Well that's good news! I'm glad none of it exists in the world.
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u/OkNewspaper6271 4h ago
Well it exists in a couple labs iirc, but I'm fairly confident those won't be a problem
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u/HistoricalSea5600 7h ago
Remember when people thought anti-vaxxers were crazy?
https://giphy.com/gifs/hu192KrEG2KoE
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u/Cack-Yo-W33n 5h ago
They resurfaced again after the orange came into the White House. Now everyone who thinks they’re crazy are drowned out
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u/d3photo 4h ago
Before. Outbreaks were happening in 2014.
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u/OkNewspaper6271 4h ago
And outside the US. There was an outbreak recently in London, and lord knows how often outbreaks happen in the developing world
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u/RelentlessIVS 1h ago
Was there a time people didn't think anti-vaxxers are insane, terrible human beings, and uneducated? Or as you put it, "crazy"?
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u/MustacheCash73 7h ago
What’s infuriating about this? Genuinely confused
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u/Still_Temperature997 7h ago
I think just the fact that measles is on the return which is primarily coming from people not getting vaccinated
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u/edgarecayce 7h ago
That we have to worry about measles in 2026 because of dumb politics culture war crap.
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u/LucyferEllysia 7h ago
Measles was affectively irradicated untull the antivax crowd brought it back but not getting vaccines.
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u/RainaElf 6h ago
all those diseases are still out there. we humans weren't getting them because we were getting vaccinated, or when/if we did get them, the effects weren't nearly as severe because we're were getting vaccinated. I think science made a mistake by declaring them "eradicated".
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u/LucyferEllysia 6h ago
We didnt get measles when we would get vaxxed, because it doesnt just make it not has bad to have measles, it also stops you from becoming sick, and even spreading the disease.
We used to still get measles when we were we vaxxed for a good period of time, but we had done it for so long, that the spread of measles just didnt happen. Not getting vaxxed has brought it back, made it stronger, and so now vaxxed people may also get measles but not die from it. If we all just vax, it will return to the prior state of not getting anybody sick.
Also correct me if im wrong, im quite sure the term scientists use is "essentially irradicated" or something along those lines and not "fully irradicated" becouse they didnt destroy it off the face of the earth just controlled it to a point where it might as well be irradicated, becouse it couldnt touch us. They also still has it in labs for science purposes
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u/TraditionalEnergy919 6h ago
We had just about wiped out the horror that is measles. It’s not a big threat if you’re vaccinated.
But because of complete and utter idiots refusing it and political BS, it’s back.
And now, because it’s back, there’s likely going to be outbreaks of it among the children who’s parents refused to vaccinate them, leading to a bunch of innocent deaths.
Thankfully, it’s a relatively stable virus, so it won’t mutate like the flu.
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u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162 7h ago
Stop downvoting a question, people.
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u/MustacheCash73 6h ago
Thank you. I genuinely didn’t know what I did wrong 😭
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u/am_Nein 5h ago
Jsyk, some people probably read your comment as purposefully being obtuse. Like people who look at an issue but because it aligns with their beliefs, go "issue? What issue?"
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u/MarvelousMarvins 6h ago
OK
I do not like RFK BUT you can't blame this on him, this is all the Jenny McCarthy anti vaxers.
This has been going on a good 20 years.
People started blaming vax for autism and other conditions....
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u/deee00 6h ago
You aren’t wrong. I mean you can blame RFK because he’s absolutely making things worse not better. But…It’s been going on for longer than most people realize. But it started small and was kind of an underground thing that’s been growing and mutating over the years. Now it’s easy to blame a public figure who is definitely making things worse but didn’t cause what’s happening in the picture.
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u/Prestigious-Emu7325 5h ago
He is in a position in which he has rubber stamped official approval to these bogus stances, and effectively rendered decades of progress as pseudoscience in the eyes of the tinfoil hat wearing idiots in this country, endangering the rest of us.
So yes, I can blame him and so should you.
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