Thanks to widespread vaccination, measles had been considered “eliminated” as a continually transmitting illness in the United States since 2000 – but not anymore.
An independent commission of experts that reports to the director of the Pan American Health Organization determined that the US no longer qualified as having eliminated measles, a source close to the process told CNN on Friday. The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
The decision was widely expected after years of falling vaccination levels and surging case counts, but it’s still a black mark on the nation’s public health policy.
We used to burn witches for far less than this. This is a solvable problem with simple policy and infrastructure that already exists. There are guilty living people with names and addresses that are responsible for atrocities against humanity.
That was an excuse to burn women. No one in the whole GOP is going to tie RFK Jr to a pyre and set him on fire.
In Europe they burned both men and women. The women-only witch stuff is really just an American phenomenon.
An estimated 75% to 85% of those accused in the early modern witch trials were women. Men were the majority at the margins of Europe.
I’m not sure what you mean by “Men were the majority at the margins of Europe”.
In some European countries, like Iceland, Finland, and Estonia, the idea of male witchcraft was dominant.
Ah, ok. So, overall in Europe it was women who were mostly accused / convicted of witchcraft, though it wasn’t exclusively women. But, in some a few small countries it was mostly men who were accused / convicted.