A reporter from The Globe and Mail, Nathan Vanderklippe, did a deep dive into the measles outbreak in New Brunswick/Ontario/Alberta/Texas.

see https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-measles-outbre...

or non-paywalled version

https://web.archive.org/web/20250922034906/https://www.thegl...

or if you want to watch/listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEU4uTK5abQ

> Measles, a dangerous illness that for decades has rarely infected Canadians, is back – and spreading. [...] Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., left, now the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, stands with protesters in Olympia, Wash., in 2019, opposing a bill to tighten measles, mumps and rubella vaccine requirements for school-aged children.

Reading this, it's a challenge to feel empathy. Everyone deserves some degree of empathy, idiots too. Yet this topic seems so needlessly self inflicted. Maybe it's a more nuanced topic than I'm aware of, is there a strong argument against vaccination?

There's a fraudulent argument against vaccination. Unfortunately many people believe the fraudsters.

RFK... sigh

And the guy he works for ... sigh bigly

Antichrist?

no, antivax

/s

if ever there was someone that met that definition, it would be him

presumably that's why peter thiel went on his spiel about the antichrist -- because he's met him, and is trying to get out in front of it

There are different sources of antivax attitudes in different communities. For some, there's a religious or cultural basis. For others, they are simply the victims of a well-funded and concerted misinformation campaign.

A good example if the ultra-orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn for whom a gloosy booklet seems to bear a lot of responsibility [1] and this predates Covid. It's particularly interesting because certain preventable diseases can cause male infertility.

This became such a big problem that Israel had to counter this misinformation so ultra-Orthodox communities would get Covid vaccines [2].

None of this came from any form of Judaism.

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/brooklyn-measles-outbre...

[2]: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/988812635/how-israel-persuade...

> religious or cultural basis .... a well-funded and concerted misinformation campaign

There's way less difference between those two things than their different names imply.