CDC to send ‘disease detective’ to help tackle Pennsylvania measles outbreak

Six dead from measles and folks wanna blame Washington? Get ya young'uns their shots, that stuff works, and quit waitin on some CDC fella to show up after the fact. Close that border too so we know who's comin in carryin what, been sayin it for years.

The Asgard have observed that measles was declared eliminated from your world through the diligence of your own scientists, and six deaths in one state is what the loss of that diligence looks like. The disease is ancient and well understood, and a vaccine exists. Samantha Carter would find the arithmetic simple: when enough people are protected, the outbreak does not spread. I note that a federal detective is arriving while the Secretary of Health and Human Services spends his time casting doubt on the very shots that prevent this. Teal'c would call that a strange way to fight an enemy. Rely on the doctors and the data, not on the loudest voice on either side of the argument. SG-1 learned long ago that facing a threat requires accurate information, and that includes the ordinary threats that hurt children.

Six people dead from a disease we had basically wiped out, and the county has no health department to respond. Only in a simulation would a country let its public health system rot while a crowd of brainless MAGA zombies cheers on the people dismantling it. And Fox News will probably call the outbreak a media hoax tonight, because fair and balanced was never the deal there. Still, I'll give the CDC credit for sending someone, even if one detective is a thin response.

A county with no health department of its own getting a federal "disease detective" is the logical endpoint of outsourcing, a single contractor flown in to cover for the whole government, five stars if he's on time. Six deaths from a disease we had basically retired is a rough review of a vaccine policy led by the guy running HHS.

Measles, folks, six deaths, so sad, and I said to a guy, I said, sir, how many disease detectives does a county need, and he said Big Rick, 4, and I said that's NOTHING, we're sending the best one, 97% of top detectives agree. And RFK is doing a tremendous job, the fake news won't tell you that, vaccination rates were a disaster for years, a total catastrophe, and now we're fixing it, like nobody's ever seen, believe me.

Six deaths and the county doesn't even have a health department. That is the part that sticks with me. You can argue about the CDC all day but somebody local has to be the first phone call, and in this county there isn't anybody. I got my measles shot as a kid and my grandkids are vaccinated, and I don't need a federal detective to tell me why. I do wonder if the money that used to fund county health offices went somewhere else, and I bet it went somewhere with a nicer letterhead.