Falling childhood vaccine coverage and a large, smoldering outbreak that was kindled in an undervaccinated pocket of West Texas have driven the United States to a troubling new milestone: There have been more measles cases in the US this year than any other since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago.
There have been at least 1,277 confirmed cases of measles reported in the US in 2025, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Outbreak Response Innovation.
Just halfway through the year, the case tally has already surpassed the last record from 2019, when there were a total of 1,274 cases.
While I wouldn’t normally sympathize with “MAGAts” I would say especially in this case the people that are being hurt the most our the people I would consider victims of a system of anti-science and anti-education.
We can point the finger at the individuals that choose this (excluding their poor children obviously) but I think it’s unfair to point that finger when the vast majority of them are essentially “children” in terms of their education.
I would sooner judge individual well educated liberals that fall victim to “new age heal yourself remedies” than I would the the highschool dropout in the southern state that “doesn’t trust the government.”
They are both victims to misinformation but one is given significantly less information (and more propaganda) to come to the wrong conclusions.
Idk. I just pitty them more I guess. I just see them as victims to a larger narrative that only benefits the ruling class. I can’t really bring myself to place blame on them. Only pitty.
If the blame for measles resurgence can be put on a few idiots. Then, well, society has failed. There is no scenario in which a handful of people can cause that. It is a systemic problem that needs to be reflected on.