Looks like the massive victory that the Supreme Court just handed Trump with regards to deporting 350,000+ Venezuelans could not come soon enough.
Especially from a public health perspective.
Indeed, the mass migration of multiple millions of migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border will remain a lasting stain on the legacy of the Biden presidency.
From rising crime to depleted public benefits to too many other negative effects to count, it is safe to say that mass migration has hardly contributed to the United States in recent years.
And, apparently, migrants can afford to attend expensive concerts while simultaneously spreading measles … an incident that literally just surfaced out of New Jersey.
“New Jersey health officials issued a warning about a potential measles exposure during the Shakira concert at MetLife Stadium … The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) announced that a non-New Jersey resident attended the concert while infected with the disease. The concert took place from Thursday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey,” NBC10 Philadelphia reported.
So, measles started spreading at a woke pop star’s concert in a sanctuary state.
Sounds about right.
Unfortuantely, the measles epidemic is hardly restricted to sanctuary states like New Jersey, but rather pervasive across all states.
Including, unfortunately, Texas.
According to a report from the Texas Tribune, the measles outbreak has surged across the deep red state in recent years.
Now, however, it would appear that mass migration is linked to another serious issue within the United States: a measles outbreak.
Yes, that is right … measles.
And while measles was previously eradicated from the United States, it would appear that letting in millions of unvetted illegals clearly raises the prospect of a potential disease outbreak.
Even the CDC, a federal government health agency, admitted this reality on its official webpage.
“Fifty-seven measles cases were associated with residence in or contact with persons in a migrant shelter in Chicago, Illinois. Most cases occurred in unvaccinated persons. A prompt and coordinated response with a high-coverage mass vaccination campaign reduced the size and duration of the outbreak,” the CDC detailed, citing several dozen doctors.
Well, a “high-coverage” border protection plan could have minimized if not altogether eliminated the measles outbreak in the first place, but that inconvenient fact was not referenced by the CDC.
And the measles outbreak has already proven to be deadly, killing at least two children thus far.
“Texas is experiencing its largest measles outbreak in 30 years. The virus has infected more than 600 people and killed two school-aged children,” the Texas Tribune ominously reported.
To add to the ominous nature of the report, the newspaper also includes a live measles tracker for the state … which brings back unwelcome memories of COVID.
One of the more chilling aspects of the measles outbreak is the fact that it is primarily affecting children and younger people in general, who comprise the majority of measles cases.
As children are in frequent contact with one another in school, at minimum, it is not unreasonable to begin fearing even more measles cases emerging in the future.
In more than one way, this situation is already occurring, especially from a national perspective.
Rather unencouragingly, Reuters also published a story with the following grim headline: “US at tipping point for return of endemic measles.”
“The United States is at a tipping point for the return of endemic measles a quarter century after the disease was declared eradicated in the country, researchers warned on Thursday … At current U.S. childhood vaccination rates, measles could return to spreading regularly at high levels, with an estimated 851,300 cases over the next 25 years, computer models used by the researchers suggest,” Reuters declared.
So, in other words, the media has now formally shifted attention from pandemics in favor of epidemics.
Whereas a pandemic would affect multiple nations, an epidemic would affect one nation.
And it seems like the migrants have unwittingly catalyzed, at least in part, a potential measles epidemic in the United States.
An epidemic that could well very rapidly deteriorate … especially if there is a vested interest in such deterioration.
Author: Ofelia Thornton
