Antibiotics, industrial revolution, sanitation, fossil fuels, fertilizers, pesticides, and yes, VACCINES made this happen.
Posted on 10/29/2025 7:06:51 PM PDT by DoodleBob
As the measles outbreak in the Upstate has grown to 30 people, including eight new cases this week, South Carolina public health officials addressed disinformation and myths contributing to lower vaccination rates, including that it is better to be infected and get immunity that way than get the shot.
And as the measles outbreak in the Palmetto State continues to grow and one in Utah and Arizona takes off, the U.S. is closer to losing its status since 2000 of having eliminated measles from circulating in the country.
Even before the first cases were confirmed in South Carolina in July, public health officials were watching outbreaks in other parts of the country and anticipating it could happen here, said Dr. Linda Bell, state epidemiologist for the S.C. Department of Public Health.
“We most certainly did have response plans already in place before even our imported cases were recognized,” she said.
The first three cases, before the current outbreak of linked cases, was recognized Oct. 2, were originally considered on their own and add to the state’s 33 total cases so far this year.
As far back as March, Bell and other doctors told The Post and Courier they were concerned about an outbreak in South Carolina and the most likely place would be the Upstate, where vaccination rates have lagged behind other areas of the state.
Part of that may be from misconceptions, Bell said. One she addressed is the idea some have that it would be better to let a child get infected and gain immunity that way rather than vaccinating.
That is putting people, particularly young children, at risk for severe complications of an infection which can include hospitalization, pneumonia and even death, Bell said.
One out of every 20 children infected with measles gets pneumonia, and nearly one to three over 1,000 infected children will die from severe complications, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“It's such a serious concern that people may take that risk,” Bell said.
The outbreaks threaten to upend the idea that communities no longer have measles viruses floating freely among them. A year of ongoing transmission is all it would take, Bell said. Texas, which still has the largest number of cases at more than 800, recorded its first outbreak cases in late January of this year, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
South Carolina has sent its samples off for genetic testing to see if it is the same as that or other ongoing outbreak strains.
The U.S. is up to 1,648 confirmed infections as of Oct. 28, with 43 outbreaks, including South Carolina’s, CDC said. That is the highest number of measles infections the U.S. has seen since 1992, when there were 2,126, eight years before the elimination was declared.
“This is a great concern that we will have lost that huge public health success in eliminating ongoing disease transmission in our communities in the United States,” Bell said.
Well I blame all the corruption, gaslighting, suppression of information, and Covid “one size fits all” fascism on the part of Big Pharma and the broken American healthcare system in general for all this tribalism.
It’s important to be vaccinated. Especially against Polio, Measles…
But there are exceptions and the current vaccine regimen and schedule has gotten out of hand.
Unfortunately the tribalism forces people into these extremes.
[COVID]”Vaccine” deception has given the population a very healthy dose of skepticism.
After the Covid Vaxxx debacle, who trusts Public Health?
Dr. Fauci’s Fault!!!
If vaccines are so absolutely necessary, why didn’t the human race go extinct a million years before Pfizer even existed?
No big deal.
Total of 3 deaths in the USA in 2025.
This in a nation of 347 million people (or more)
More people die from the covid vax daily
Boohoo-
Covid: people were lied to, by over stating the danger, under stating the risks of the vaccine, lying about how it works or where it likely originated, the practicality of facial masks, etc.
When you (((LIE))) and lose credibility, these sort of things happen.
Here’s a great idea for an Add Council commercial: “Folks this time we really mean it. No deception and political election games. Please get vaccinated because the measles really can mess you up and the vaccine really is very safe. This isn’t like Covid where we misinformed you endlessly and kept talking about mis and dis information.”
Maybe give Fauchi another award. LOL
All you need to know you learned in kindergarten! Really. Ever read the story about the kid that kept crying wolf?
and your untested or undertested ‘vaccines’ are a great concern to us parents.
give us the data: trials and types of trial and studies, exact numbers vaccinated, exact contents and adjuvants, exact number of time clustered adverse effects—catagorized by type, and neurologic adverse events for developing kids like autism regression. then and only then, will i consider letting you jab my loved ones and kids again.
we now know things like the original salk polio vaccine caused more deaths from polio. we know the so called cowpox vaccine killed a bunch of people in leichester. we know that the mmr has known time clustered correlations with autism in those susceptible through studies released yesterday (see, McCullough, Wakefield, et. al.).
frankly, at this point, you’d be a fool of a parent to let your kids take any big pharma/big gov’t ‘vaccine’ with out in-depth study on our own.
I had the measles when I was a kid.
It was awesome. Missed school. Stayed in bed. Ate cereal. Watched cartoons.
It’s the illegal immigration misinformation that has led to this. We didn’t need measles vaccinations until unvaccinated, unquarantined people overran our borders.
Amen
Have they changed the measles vax to MnRNA type or is that prohibited information?
That is more of a problem to me than misinformation.
Measles aren’t deadly for most people, but it will mess you up (you won’t be happy if you have it). The vaccine is unlike the flu or covid highly effective and very safe (1:4,000 have a bad reaction) or .00025% chance.
It’s a game of weighing off cost and benefit.
No one should ever be forced. What happened during Covid with mandates, coercion, violations of privacy is scandalous, immoral, and shameful. The gold standard is “informed consent.”
What vaccine is right for you is up to you and varies based on location where you live, occupation, sexual behaviors, age, sex, race, pre existing medical conditions, travels, and personal values. Then on the vaccine side you need to factor in the vaccines efficacy, how long immunity lasts, how fast immunity develops, the probability of adverse reactions and their severity. Given these variables, you today have politicians “mandating” vaccines for everyone which makes about as much sense as chairman Mao mandating everyone to have a smelter because he wants to industrialize a China: stupid.
There is no one shoe fits all solution but that is where politicians (standardize), the MSM (ideology) and big pharma (greed) try to push things.
If I were a vet and working with certain animals, even an anthrax vaccine may make sense. If I travel to certain places in Africa, maybe ebola. If I’m promiscuous HPV. If I have no immune system because of chemo maybe even a flu vaccine. But the one size fits all shoe like politicians and our burocracy advocate, which big pharma pushes, and which the over simplistic MSM advocates is surely NOT the correct answer.
This was never right: https://www.texastribune.org/2011/08/15/facing-new-scrutiny-perry-walks-back-hpv-decision/
That said, many of the big hitters, the diseases that really mess people up and where a vaccine works (polio, tentus), were developed many years ago and refined over time.
Today it’s about making more money and like climate change, drumming up a big threat story where the MSM every year claims this is the worst flu season on record. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel with vaccines that are really only relevant to a certain and small demographic, that have more incidents or side effects and aren’t as effective. But MMR has been around a long time, is very effective, with a very low incidence of problems and these diseases can mess you up.
“highly effective and very safe”
This is the kind of dangerous misinformation that leads to long term problems caused by these poisons.
Best vaccine for measles? Get the measles.
Antibiotics, industrial revolution, sanitation, fossil fuels, fertilizers, pesticides, and yes, VACCINES made this happen.
V.A. is trying to push the yearly VAXes on me, and I don’t trust any of them anymore.
I have been refusing since 2020.
This one’s on Biden, The Latin American Measles, The African Measles, The Asian Measles, You name it they could have originated anywhere and been brought here by Biden’s open border idiocy !
Measles was considered eradicated here once upon a time.
Then Democrats and willingly stupid rinos decided to let illegal aliens in who had active infections without screening or return to sender and with a wave and tip of the hat “good day”.
Voila, measles outbreak.
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