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What is happening in USA now is the future of EU. Armies of illiterate Tik-Tok and Instagram users, choosing to follow self-proclaimed gurus and fake news.
Measels are the smallest problem.
Antivax came out of the EU. Andrew Wakefield was from the UK (before BREXIT). It is only chance that this is getting bad in the US first.
Oh fuck off, no it isn't. You're an American in denial, or just ignorant of what Europe is like and just how bad it is in the States in comparison.
Andrews Wakefield may have been British, but he was fired so he went to Texas and subsequently became popular for his antivax shit.
You might as well say "it's only chance the US has had so many terrible train- and plane-accidents in the recent years, it could've just as well been any European country". No, it couldn't have, because across the EU theres much stronger safety regulations for both the people working and the equipment they work with.
And I don't need to even get into the whole
Lead Exposure in Last Century Shrank IQ Scores of Half of Americans
Lol no, it's already rooted here. Anti-vaxxers and other esoteric BS (like homeopathy) has always been very strong in the southern german-speaking areas like Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Austria and Switzerland. More mountains, more eso shit.
(Look at the other side, by far the worst is France, Switzerland isn’t so bad compared to France)