feelingbluepolitics: The notes reflect a number of outed-Fox watchers spreading internationally note
feelingbluepolitics:The notes reflect a number of outed-Fox watchers spreading internationally noteworthy ignorance like a virus. Warning: if you are watching Fox spew about diseased immigrants and infected caravans, you may by now have contracted the hideous and deforming moral diseases of racism and bigotry.The only antidote is to broaden your information sources.“What do Libya, Russia, China, Zimbabwe and Iran have in common?“According to the World Health Organization, they have a higher measles immunization coverage among 1-year-olds than the United States. And, as this interactive map shows, they are far from alone.”Map: 113 countries have higher measles immunization rates than the U.S. for 1-year-oldshttps://wapo.st/1DaL869“Many countries have managed to attain a 99% rate of immunization against DPT in children aged between 12 and 23 months. This indicates that such countries are very much committed in the fights to eliminate Diphtheria, Pertussis, and Tetanus alike.”https://www.babygaga.com/top-15-countries-that-dont-vaccinate-their-babies/“Maternal birth country was used to categorize children into nine regional groups: United States, Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe/Canada, Africa (excluding Somalia), Central/South America/Caribbean, Mexico, Oceania/other and Somalia. Of the total sample, 22% of children had at least one foreign-born parent."Children with mothers born in Central and South America/Caribbean, Mexico and Africa (excluding Somalia) had higher rates of vaccine compliance compared with children of two U.S.-born parents at all ages, while the lowest percentage of up-to-date children had mothers born in Eastern Europe and Somalia.”http://www.aappublications.org/news/2018/07/09/mmwr071018In other words, feckless American parents are the problem, and they need to vaccinate their children. Excellent article:https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/anti-vaccine-hotspots-rise-across-u-s-study-finds-n882461(Eastern European countries include Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, and Slovakia, as well as republics of Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine. Eastern European immigrants are frequently white rather than black or brown, so this could confuse Fox watchers imagining “dangerous” immigrants.) -- source link
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