你现在可能知道了，the U.S.is currently experiencing its最大的麻疹爆发since the disease's eradication,with over 800 confirmed cases.Many of these outbreaks are taking place in ultra-Orthodox communities.
在克维尔，苹果beplaywe're all about keeping our kids safe from the measles.Especially yours truly;I live in the middle of the measles outbreak in Brooklyn,which meant I had to give my infant son an extra dose of thevaccine.Not fun.但是麻疹是worse.
Which is why we're so upset about a rally that took place in a ballroom in Monsey,Rockland County-当前疫情的焦点之一——周一，May 13.The rally,which was aimed at the area's ultra-Orthodox community,was presented as a "vaccine symposium" — a very official-sounding name for what was basically a gathering of some leading anti-vaccination "authorities" (of which only one was actually ultra-Orthodox).
It breaks our hearts to see a roomful of parents listening to this misinformation;据报道,there were evenbabiesin the crowd.The insular ultra-Orthodox community has been the target of anti-vaccinepropaganda,through a scientific-looking pamphlet from a group called PEACH,以及一条针对传播反Vaxx观点的女性的热线。
We've mentioned,一次又一次，that there'sno valid Jewish religious reason不给你的孩子接种疫苗。In fact,这个majorityof ultra-Orthodox Jewsdo接种疫苗，and the local Jewish authorities came out against the rally.然而，in such tight-knit communities,where kids are constantly together,even a small pocket of anti-vaxxers can be dangerous.
These anti-vaccine propagandists know how information (rather,misinformation) can spread — in fact,this isn't the first tight-knit community they've preyed upon.As热门科技博客网站reported,当明尼苏达州有点孤立的索马里社区发生麻疹时，反疫苗组织也采用了同样的策略。outbreak.
但是在这次会议上分享的信息，was — pardon our French —truly bananas.
An anti-vaccination rally a thread:pic.twitter.com/PRW91s1aQo
— Gwynne Hogan (@GwynneFitz)May 14,2019
拉比·希尔勒·汉德勒-他之前告诉过Voxthat parents who "placate the gods of vaccination" are engaging in "child sacrifice" — accused New York City mayor Bill de Blasio,who had declared a public health emergency in some Brooklyn zip codes,可能是个秘密纳粹？我不知道，honestly.他称他为“卑鄙的家伙”，是个隐密的德国人——“威廉，his real name,以德国皇帝威廉的名字命名。市长改了他的姓from Wilhem to de Blasio,他母亲的娘家姓，to distance himself from his father,who was a heavy drinker and caused his family emotional distress).
One doctor at the conference peddled a conspiracy theory that the vaccinations given to ultra-Orthodox Jewish kids were somehow altered or defective — despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of those infected with the measles,mostly children,were not接种疫苗.
Another big guest at the rally was Del Bigtree,AKA the guy who exploited the Holocaust for his anti-vaccination agenda by wearing一颗真正的黄星(!!!) in order to gain traction.He has been condemned by both theADLand theAuschwitz Memorial.
But the creme de la creme of the rally's roster was Andrew Wakefield,the disgraced doctor who first made the fraudulent connection between autism and vaccines.According to theNew York Times,Wakefield "appeared via Skype to offer an almost apocalyptic vision of a world in which vaccines were giving rise to deadlier immunization-resistant diseases."
Despite numerous有声望的研究that have refuted the connection between vaccines and autism,it's not very likely that people like Bigtree,Handler,或者韦克菲尔德会对他们的反Vaxx错误信息不再抱有幻想。But we are honestly worried that that misinformation will cause more mothers not to vaccinate,麻疹还会继续传播。
In this picture:图.twitter.com/7zriiyhan2
— Gwynne Hogan (@GwynneFitz)May 14,2019
The only thing we can do is educate ourselves about themeasles,and do what we可以to keep our children safe.And by that we mean tovaccinate你的孩子,当然。
