Louisiana Took Months to Sound Alarm Amid Whooping Cough Outbreak

https://undark.org/2025/11/11/louisiana-whooping-cough-slow/

by EA-3167 • 8 months ago

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EasyMark• 8 months ago

This is what happens when you ignore basic science and say vaccines that have worked for decades don't work, and then convince 25% of the USA into believing that it's the politically correct stance to take on the topic.

dboreham• 8 months ago

Remember: everything you see that seems odd is in service of someone's business model.

BobaFloutist• 8 months ago

Nah, some people are definitely evil or crazy for the sheer love of the game.

wakawaka28• 8 months ago

I don't think the skeptics question whether these particular vaccines prevent disease. The question is whether they have other harmful effects, especially when bundled together in a broad-spectrum product to vaccinate against 30+ diseases (or whatever).

CGamesPlay• 8 months ago

Hot take: delaying without completely suppressing this alerting is the best way to change people's minds about the benefits of preventive measures like vaccination without massive loss of life.

Esophagus45• 8 months ago

Meaning, let the outbreak get bad enough to remind people that vaccines are helpful?

jojobas3• 8 months ago

It could be that the only way to remind people is to get them to see some deaths or near-deaths first-hand.

pinkmuffinere• 8 months ago

I think that is what they meant. It is crazy, but there's some reasoning behind the crazy. And they did say it was a hot take.

nyc_data_geek1• 8 months ago

Get in loser, we're making Polio Great Again

yesco• 8 months ago

A lot of anti-vaccination people are skeptics; they don't trust the information being given to them by authoritative sources. The government deliberately withholding information, especially if done with the intent you described, would, without question, reinforce their skepticism.

So considering that, I suspect the loss of life would increase in the long run.

orwin• 8 months ago

Already told this story, but basically my mother overreacted to a vaccine in the 80s, became an early antivax, had me, only did the bare minimum, I got pertussis at 4-5yo (lucky it wasn't earlier), and since no doctor in the area ever saw pertussis (everyone being vaccinated at the time, and everybody thought I was too, through my mother antibodies), I spent 4 month coughing (I was told), until a retired doctor diagnosed me, and then a few months again, but it was manageable. I have three memories of that time, the first three memories of my life: once coughing so hard I cried on the playground, one lying on my grandmother couch, coughing while she helps me drink, and one after getting treatment (probably for the first time?).

My siblings all got vaccinated after that, and my mother stopped being antivax (still taking 'alternative' medecine, but also still taking conventional one). I guess seeing your child in so much pain and develop arythmia because of your 'beliefs' can make you change. Hopefully things like this will be less and less common.

ambicapter• 8 months ago

I guess seeing your child in so much pain and develop arythmia because of your 'beliefs' can make you change.

keyword being "can" there.

intermerda• 8 months ago

Example:

Parents of Texas child who died of measles remain opposed to vaccine

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/health/parents-of-texas-ch...

crossroadsguy• 8 months ago

After reading your comment, I am a bit concerned. I get allergies really quickly, and it is difficult to gauge, at least for 2-3 days, which one it is— the allergy or a full-blown cold/infection— and sometimes it results in proper coughing, et cetera. I think I will talk to my doctor and ask whether there are any boosters needed for me in my late 30s, for which I might have been vaccinated as a child.

zzixp• 8 months ago

I played sports & had whooping cough in high school and it rendered me useless for like 4 months. Not fun.

Louisiana Took Months to Sound Alarm Amid Whooping Cough Outbreak

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