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Don't worry, Rockland County NY will ensure it remains "on the Brink" indefinitely.

arp242 3y ago
Since I had no idea what this referred to: "the county has the largest Jewish population percentage of any U.S. county". So looks another "(((them))) in (((control)))" bollocks.
- dragonwriter 3y ago
  Its probably about a particular subculture within the Orthodox Jewish community in that county that leads to certain environments (notably, private schools in that community) having vaccination rates persistently below the level needed to prevent outbreaks of several diseases that are controlled by vaccination otherwise, not about any kind of deliberate plan or other conspiracy theory, antisemitic or otherwise. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/why-measles-hits-so-hard-within-n-y-orthodox-jewish-community/ https://kffhealthnews.org/news/why-measles-hits-so-hard-with...
- scottLobster 3y ago
  Rockland County recently had an unvaccinated man paralyzed by polio, despite the disease supposedly being eliminated from the US in 1979. https://www.chop.edu/news/2022-ny-polio-case-why-and-what-does-it-mean https://www.chop.edu/news/2022-ny-polio-case-why-and-what-do... There's a large concentration of ultra-orthodox Jews living there that don't vaccinate for anything on religious grounds. As a result the county is notorious for essentially being a living archive of otherwise eliminated diseases, in particular they have outsized issues with any disease that could be dealt with through vaccination. All of this is on the first page of google search results for "Rockland County polio", but thanks for not doing even that much and jumping straight to "hmm, lots of jews live there, this guy must be a neonazi!".
  - arp242 3y ago
    > All of this is on the first page of google search results for "Rockland County polio", but thanks for not doing even that much and jumping straight to "hmm, lots of jews live there, this guy must be a neonazi!". I look up "Rockland County"; I see a bunch of things that specifically mention it being Jewish. So okay, what am I supposed to assume on a topic that 1) has nothing to do with Jews, but which 2) has a long history of conspiracy theories attached to it, which sometimes includes Jews (because all conspiracy theories do)? I did not think of a list of search queries I could possibly do in order to find some obscure event I didn't know existed. If you don't want people making assumptions then try being less vague in your references to some obscure little-known non-obvious event, because "making assumptions" is pretty much the only think anyone can do with a cryptic comment like that unless they're already aware of what you're on about.
    - cade 3y ago
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  - makomk 3y ago
    As the original article explains, whilst the inactivated polio vaccine used in developed countries like the USA does provide good protection against being paralyzed by polio it's not terribly effective at preventing transmission. So it's not actually all that clear whether Rockland County's attitude to vaccination will impact anything other than the people living there in this case.

Since I had no idea what this referred to: "the county has the largest Jewish population percentage of any U.S. county". So looks another "(((them))) in (((control)))" bollocks.

dragonwriter 3y ago
Its probably about a particular subculture within the Orthodox Jewish community in that county that leads to certain environments (notably, private schools in that community) having vaccination rates persistently below the level needed to prevent outbreaks of several diseases that are controlled by vaccination otherwise, not about any kind of deliberate plan or other conspiracy theory, antisemitic or otherwise. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/why-measles-hits-so-hard-within-n-y-orthodox-jewish-community/ https://kffhealthnews.org/news/why-measles-hits-so-hard-with...
scottLobster 3y ago
Rockland County recently had an unvaccinated man paralyzed by polio, despite the disease supposedly being eliminated from the US in 1979. https://www.chop.edu/news/2022-ny-polio-case-why-and-what-does-it-mean https://www.chop.edu/news/2022-ny-polio-case-why-and-what-do... There's a large concentration of ultra-orthodox Jews living there that don't vaccinate for anything on religious grounds. As a result the county is notorious for essentially being a living archive of otherwise eliminated diseases, in particular they have outsized issues with any disease that could be dealt with through vaccination. All of this is on the first page of google search results for "Rockland County polio", but thanks for not doing even that much and jumping straight to "hmm, lots of jews live there, this guy must be a neonazi!".
- arp242 3y ago
  > All of this is on the first page of google search results for "Rockland County polio", but thanks for not doing even that much and jumping straight to "hmm, lots of jews live there, this guy must be a neonazi!". I look up "Rockland County"; I see a bunch of things that specifically mention it being Jewish. So okay, what am I supposed to assume on a topic that 1) has nothing to do with Jews, but which 2) has a long history of conspiracy theories attached to it, which sometimes includes Jews (because all conspiracy theories do)? I did not think of a list of search queries I could possibly do in order to find some obscure event I didn't know existed. If you don't want people making assumptions then try being less vague in your references to some obscure little-known non-obvious event, because "making assumptions" is pretty much the only think anyone can do with a cryptic comment like that unless they're already aware of what you're on about.
  - cade 3y ago
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- makomk 3y ago
  As the original article explains, whilst the inactivated polio vaccine used in developed countries like the USA does provide good protection against being paralyzed by polio it's not terribly effective at preventing transmission. So it's not actually all that clear whether Rockland County's attitude to vaccination will impact anything other than the people living there in this case.