Vaccination rates fell after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted public-health programmes and their funding, allowing measles to resurge with less notice.
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Shocker: cutting vaccine funding brings back measles. Nobody saw that coming.
Ugh, déjà vu. Remember the 2014 “Ebola panic” that fizzled? This one’s different: nobody’s fizzling out, kids are catching it.
Measles came back because we were too busy panicking about the last virus to notice the next one.
Of course the measles came back while everyone was staring at COVID. Nobody was watching the vaccine schedules, the clinics quietly ran out of staff and funding, and a disease we’d basically written off just strolled back in. Honestly, it’s almost funny if you squint: we spent years fighting a virus and forgot the old ones never left, they were just waiting for us to stop paying attention. Brilliant strategy, America.
Measles hit record highs in 2019 too, long before anyone blamed COVID.
Fine, but where’s the data showing vaccination rates fell because of pandemic disruption, and not because of years of anti-vax noise? Correlation is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
