• skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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    21 hours ago

    The very annoying things right now:

    • This was a family of Mennonites, as @IHeartBadCode@fedia.io said, their way of life is purposely dumbified - 15 years ago this would have been a sad story about a child that died because of a cult with backwards thinking.
    • Media is broadcasting it like “omg look how America is going backwards” - which yes, we are, but the full story is helpful - they’re just dramatizing this one poor kid’s death for the clicks. (Example of a way for media to be more truthful: “6 year old Mennonite child in cult dies of Measles due to their ridiculous belief system.”)
    • Anti-vaccine groups should be given no credibility. Crazy is supposed to live on the fringe so they know they’re crazy and nobody will listen to them, not make Comcast News.
    • The US government is hiding how bad the measles outbreak is, some alt accounts on bsky suggest the cases are in the 2000s a few days ago, probably higher now.
    • Brain worm in charge of HHS which won’t help anything.
    • It happened in Texas, which given the current climate, media stirring the pot will just drive more opposition between people in the US when we need unity against Tyranny.
    • Articles like this are just for the clicks.

    an increasingly vaccine-hesitant country

    Come on, Comcrap. Loud doesn’t mean popular.

    Trash “news” service.