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Your rant makes no sense. How exactly is anti-science sentiment the cause of the first local malaria case detected in 20 years? It’s not like there’s a vaccine
by boeingUH60 3y ago
Your rant makes no sense. How exactly is anti-science sentiment the cause of the first local malaria case detected in 20 years? It’s not like there’s a vaccine approved for use in the US, or that malaria is something that spreads as easily as Covid..
And sure, you compared to Belize, an island country with much limited movement compared to the US.
- greydius 3y agoBelize is not an island.
- boeingUH60 3y agoOops, I stand corrected. Still a relatively small country through.
- toss1 3y agoBelize is not an island. Anti-science is not limited to anti-vaccines, it also encompasses all the public health measures, supposedly being a limitation on "freedom" and "bodily autonomy", claimed to be steppingstones to authoritarianism - all by people who want absolute 'freedumb', and all the benefits of living in a complex society but zero of the responsibilities of maintaining the complex society. I will grant that the connection here is more tenuous than a herd of anti-vaxxers making a measles cluster and spreading it. But the broad anti-science thrust both suppresses general public health measures, and in openly "anti-woke" states like Florida & Texas, the administrations actively undermine public health measures, even outlawing such measures, and preventing cities/counties from implementing their own. Thus, it is no surprise to find that Texas and Florida are the locus of these infections, and to find that juxtaposed vs Belize successfully eradicating the disease.