Ohio, Maryland and Alabama among states to report new cases, with 378 confirmed in first few months of 2025

The Texas outbreak could take a year to get under control, one health official said – during which time it may spread to more states. Yet the parents of the six-year-old girl who died of measles in Texas have spoken against measles vaccination as misinformation continues to proliferate, including from figures such as the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.

“I never thought in 2025, we would be looking at this resurgence of measles,” said Katherine Wells, director of Lubbock Public Health. “And I didn’t know it’d be in my backyard, either.”

    • 0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      What law that allows persecution of these people won’t be abused by fascists to apply to people they don’t like? We all want laws where we throw people out of society we don’t like, but there’s a reason fascism needs democracy to exist. I’m obviously for some sort of solution, but preferably one that doesn’t have all of the tools for fascism to use against their political enemies.

        • 0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          1 year ago

          How do you suggest they “leave” society against their will? That’s literally deportation—very abusable by fascists today. Unless you are suggesting they can voluntarily leave… which is a “solution” I guess. Who will be doing this? This would be a federal thing so you want to fund the DEA to make these arrests? Yeah blowing up the DEA budget won’t help fascists either.

          It’s not a slippery slope if that’s literally how this country has been working for as long as you or I have been alive. These laws require funding and budgets and law enforcement agencies to enforce these laws. This is literally drug enforcement, it’s or course going to be the drug enforcement agency to do the presidents bidding. An executive branch agency mind you.