J C again

The Hill ran a breathless story yesterday headlined, “Ohio measles outbreak may be fueled by vaccine misinformation, health official says: ‘We’re all going to pay dearly’.”

They are really milking those Ohio measles cases. I wonder if it will be even worse than monkeypox.

I’ve previously reported that Ohio’s measles “outbreak” has not yet even reached 2014 levels. Still, they’re blaming it on some kind of new “vaccine hesitancy:”

“The vaccine hesitancy is something that we’re all going to pay dearly for the next several years from the COVID fiasco,” said Charles Patterson, the health commissioner for Clark County Combined Health District.
Sounds bad! But if you carefully read the article’s details, there have been zero deaths and only 32 hospitalizations ALL YEAR. Fewer than three a month. Of those, 27 either had “unknown” vaccine status or were too young to be eligible for the measles shots anyway. The unstated point seems to be that a Utopian level of zero-measles would definitely be achievable if only everyone would get their damned jabs.

But the perfectly reasonable question parents are asking themselves is, which is worse: the risk of measles or the risk of the shots? The article didn’t mention shot risks or side effects, at all.

You know the answer.

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When we were kids we had Measles Parties…anyone remember ?