This is a bad take. 1) Averages over the country don't account for local pockets of low rates (which he even mentions later but glosses over). 2) It's not only about deaths. 3) Nowhere are the enormous costs of responding to these outbreaks mentioned.https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/measles-outbreak-clark-county-overblown.html …
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Als antwoord op @aetiology
Overblown? Sure - I’ll just leave this here for now: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/measles-outbreak-madagascar-children-death-vaccination-health-who-africa-a8780781.html …
@danengber and@Slate - next time, do you mind doing a proper job? Thanks.1 antwoord 2 retweets 3 vind-ik-leuks -
The piece describes how coverage of the local outbreak in Washington State as a public health emergency on a national scale in the U.S., spawned by anti-vax extremists, is indeed overblown -- and wrong. Not sure how you meant to refute that.
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Als antwoord op @danengber @K_G_Andersen en
Because sometimes you need to view things with a broader lens

. The “overblown” response is in regards to what this could be and what should be prevented with vaccines (but won’t be because of anti-vaxxers). This is deadly to kids, don’t forget.1 antwoord 0 retweets 5 vind-ik-leuks -
Als antwoord op @NathanGrubaugh @danengber en
And because a vaccine preventable disease isn’t effecting enough kids to please you, you gotta say that it’s overblown and wrong to blame the anti-vaxxers? Piss off. Go find your 15 minutes elsewhere.
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Als antwoord op @NathanGrubaugh @K_G_Andersen en
It's neither "pleasing" me nor flattering your self-importance. It's assessing the source + magnitude of under-vaccination at whatever scale is relevant + addressing it. The fact of global outbreaks is v important but we're misleading ppl abt scope of anti-vax "movement" in USA
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Als antwoord op @danengber @NathanGrubaugh en
What experts did you interview to come to your conclusions and point out any blind spots you might have? Did you examine the financial costs of these outbreaks? Have you examined what even a small # of organized AVers can do to vaccine confidence and potential legislation?
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Als antwoord op @aetiology @danengber en
Dan, you keep mentioning ‘50’ - and via your comments you continue to show that you simply don’t understand the scope of the problem (which the article I linked to is an example of). Sure, if we could treat 50 cases as an isolated event and then it’d stop there, fine. [...]
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Als antwoord op @K_G_Andersen @aetiology en
[...] but the problem is that we can’t - antivax is a much bigger movement that’ll lead to many (many!) more cases and calling attention to that is about as far from overblown as it can be. Just look at your own title! Do you think it’s appropriate? [...]
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[...] so, Dan, instead of spending time attempting to defend your position - it’s wrong, no questions about it - please spend more time researching the topic to understand the scope. Then write the article you should have written in the first place.
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