The WHO European Region is experiencing an alarming rise in measles cases. Over 30 000 measles cases were reported by 40 of the Region’s 53 Member States between January and October 2023. Compared to 941 cases reported in all of 2022, this represents a more than 30-fold rise. The rise in cases has accelerated in recent months, and this trend is expected to continue if urgent measures are not taken across the Region to prevent further spread.
  • BobVersionFour@kbin.social
    151·
    10 months ago

    The “parents know best” movement as to die parenting is hard but making kids is easy AF that why dumb people do it all the time and dumb people make dumb parents

  • _lilith@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    10 months ago

    So at what point is this straight up child abuse? It’s at least negligence right?

  • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.netEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    My sister didn’t vaccinate her daughter and the whole family is not able to convince her otherwise :(

        • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.netEnglish
          9·
          10 months ago

          Yes basically, she exaggerates how often the side effects happen compared to how often the complications happen and says it’s to dangerous to give a vaccine. All while she her self is vaccinated against measles …

          They also went unvaccinated through COVID with the worst symptoms of all the family (everyone else vaccinated) but still claiming that this is the right decision.

          • CAVOK@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            Weird. I mean it’s all a cost benefit analysis. On the cost side you have a few common but mild side effects and a very small number of more severe but still harmless side effects.

            On the benefit side you have not having a child to visit in the cemetery.

            To me that wasn’t hard.

            • erwan@lemmy.mlEnglish
              11·
              10 months ago

              It’s not the harmless side effects they fear, it’s (overblown) serious side effects that they fear. There is the Guillain Barré syndrome that is real but very rare, as well as a lot of imagined serious side effects like death.

              • CAVOK@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                1·
                10 months ago

                Yeah, I mean most drugs have side effects. The thing is that many of the side effects is also there if you get the disease itself, so it’s not like you’re extra protected by not vaccinating, quite the opposite.

                Sadly it seems logic isn’t really what’s needed to get people to change their mind. I don’t know what can though.

  • lulztard@feddit.deEnglish
    61·
    10 months ago

    I’ve made my peace years ago with the fact that this problem is going to take care of itself.

    • NickwithaC@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Except it’s not the fully immunised parents that are going to die out, it’s their children.

      • lulztard@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Enough dead kids and the morons will learn their lesson while the most unteachable idiots will see their bloodline get thinned out. I’m old enough to remember the stories of my great-grandparents and what diphtheria has left them of their 10 children.