Can you imagine something like this happening in America?
A new, dangerous respiratory virus mutating in the overcrowded and unhygienic environment of a poorly-managed city market, and then spreading almost unchecked for six weeks, amidst continual denials of its serious nature?
No, probably not.
Such things would never happen in any kind of first world country. let's focus on exotic animal markets in China to make us all feel superior
No, health epidemics could never thrive in our amazing country because we have safe meat markets
Unlike China, the West tries to learn from its mistakes. It's why we have so much bureaucracy. The cost of red tape seems excessive until shit like this happens in the places that don't have red tape.
We do so much learning, its Yuuge I tell you. No other country learns so great. And our bureaucracy, everyone is jealous of it, it is so highly, so much red tape. Nobody has that much red tape.
https://qz.com/1790253/the-usda-is-recalling-more-unsafe-mea...
Lol
But no, we don't have dirty food markets, so we have that going for us.
The most you can say is that Jews have more contact with each other (they have strong community ties) so the virus has a chance to spread.
PS. Good job labeling ordinary people "religious fanatics". You might want to take a deep look inside yourself.
>The U.S. experienced 17 outbreaks in 2018. Three outbreaks in New York State, New York City, and New Jersey, respectively, contributed to most of the cases. Cases in those states occurred primarily among unvaccinated people in Orthodox Jewish communities. These outbreaks were associated with travelers who brought measles back from Israel, where a large outbreak is occurring. Eighty-two people brought measles to the U.S. from other countries in 2018.
>In upstate New York, the outbreak has spread through insular communities in Rockland and Orange counties, where vaccination rates in some schools and day care centers is at 60%, according to New York state health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker. The state’s overall vaccination rate is 92.5%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Source: https://forward.com/news/national/417390/measles-is-hitting-...
"However, the New York State Health Department reports the average vaccination rate for measles among the nearly 200 Jewish K-12 schools in Brooklyn — mainly in Borough Park and Williamsburg — is 96%"
To get 60% in a couple schools the rates at the rest of the schools must be pretty near 100%.
And don’t give me the same source you used because no where within the website does it contain the paragraph you highlighted.
The rate of vaccine refusal for Orthodox Jews is radically higher than the general public--second only to Jehovah's Witnesses on a proportionate basis.
"However, the New York State Health Department reports the average vaccination rate for measles among the nearly 200 Jewish K-12 schools in Brooklyn — mainly in Borough Park and Williamsburg — is 96%, six percentage points higher than the statewide average among private schools. In contrast, six other New York counties have a vaccination rate below 50%."
And just to be clear, these are Orthodox K-12 schools we are talking about.
https://health.data.ny.gov/Health/School-Immunization-Survey...
> The rate of vaccine refusal for Orthodox Jews is radically higher than the general public--second only to Jehovah's Witnesses on a proportionate basis.
Where in the world are you getting such utter crap data from?
There were some schools at 77%, but that was not vaccine refusal, that was just kids who hadn't made time to go to the Dr., when prompted virtually all of them vaccinated. And that's from the CDC itself.
https://www.jta.org/2019/06/07/united-states/heres-what-we-k...
The County at issue in that outbreak confirms the low vaccination rates as of 2018 and 2019, when the outbreak actually occurred.
Cured? Where?
The US had ~1,300 cases in 2019 and successfully put down the small outbreak. By September the cases were down to six that month and they stayed down. It was the worst outbreak in decades.
The EU had as many cases in 2019 - 13,500 - as the US did in the prior 20 years combined. That's ten times the figure the US had in 2019. In 2017 + 2018 Europe broadly had around 110,000 cases.
I think the US is very obviously doing excellent regarding measles.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/One-MacArthur-freeway...
This was an impressive thing to live through too...
You have an underclass who cannot afford to go to hospital or see a doctor, which extends well up into the low end of the working middle class.
You have employers who penalize workers for self-quarantine.
You have vicious mistreatment of undocumented people that makes them scared to draw official notice anywhere.
The military is quite experienced at putting up buildings very very fast.