Summary
A measles outbreak in rural West Texas has surged to 49 confirmed cases, mostly among unvaccinated school-age children, with officials suspecting hundreds more unreported infections.
The outbreak is centered in Gaines County, home to a large Mennonite population with low vaccination rates. Despite CDC support, Texas has not requested federal intervention.
The outbreak has now spread to Lubbock, raising wider public health concerns.
Experts warn it could persist for months without increased vaccination efforts, but skepticism toward vaccines remains a significant barrier.
Vaccines aren’t 100% effective, the way they work is mostly through herd immunity, where an epidemic effectively peters out due to lack of viable hosts. Depending on the infectiousness of the pathogen, a +90% vaccination rate is usually enough to keep an infection from breaking through.
Two doses of the measles vaccine are approximately 97% effective at preventing measles. Certainly not 100%, but not too shabby.
What is especially irritating is that the conspiracy theorists latch onto this terminology as “proof” that the “globalists” view you as a herd animal…
Another unfortunate thing is how the term “theory” in a scientific sense is very different from the layperson’s use of that word…