How Anti-Vaccine Influencers are Responding to the Second Measles Death of the Year

You won't be surprised...

Now that we have reports of the second measles death of the year, how will anti-vaccine influencers respond to the news?

Will they finally tell their followers to get vaccinated and protected?

Not on your life!

Literally…

How Anti-Vaccine Influencers are Responding to the Second Measles Death of the Year

Anti-vaccine influencers are responding to news of the second measles death just like they did when we learned about the first one.

They have gone into panic mode!

Across their social media accounts and websites, they are laundering the idea that these two measles deaths weren’t really about measles.

To them, to help justify their not vaccinating their own kids, leaving them at risk to get measles and other vaccine preventable diseases, and pushing propaganda about vaccines, they need to believe that measles is a mild disease.

After all, if measles could really kill healthy kids (and it does), then cognitive dissonance would grow and make them question what they were doing.

And so while they are extremely quick to believe each and every vaccine injury story without any evidence, not even proof that the person was vaccinated, we're seeing them jumping through hoops to explain away these measles deaths.

To begin with, they are pushing the narrative that they died “with measles,” instead of “from measles.”

Esai Morales uses his celebrity status to scare people away from getting vaccinated and protected. Remember that the next time a child dies with measles.

And if that doesn’t work, they want you to understand that if measles did in fact kill them, then there had to be some extraordinary circumstance, like doctors or hospitals making a mistake.

Of course, none of that is true.

Pneumonia is a common complication of measles and unfortunately, sometimes it can lead to them needing support breathing.

The unvaccinated child in Texas didn’t die because she was put on a ventilator or needed a budesonide inhaler…

So says the guy who has been pushing the idea that the measles outbreak in Texas was started by shedding, which is not even a rumor, but a lie since we know they have the D8 strain. A wild virus strain.

The unvaccinated adult in New Mexico didn’t die of something else and also, by the way, coincidentally also happened to have a positive measles test…

How long before Peter McCullough starts selling a measles treatment protocol?

They didn’t die because vaccinated folks shed on them as Peter McCullough and other anti-vaccine influencers suggest…

Because he thinks it worked for COVID, it didn’t, Ben Edwards has been hosting large clinics in the middle of the Texas outbreak, prescribing folks budesonide inhalers and cod liver oil, instead of recommending that they get vaccinated.

They didn’t die because they were given an MMR vaccine while already sick with measles or because they had multiple life-threatening conditions…

While anti-vaccine influencers make it seem like they are just asking questions, they are really just pushing propaganda and following their agenda to scare you away from vaccinating and protecting your kids.

They didn’t die because they caught a vaccine strain of measles as the NVIC proposes.

Sure, let nature do its thing on its own. Let’s get back to the days when half of the population died from the plague. Or maybe they died of something else and they died with the plague…

They certainly didn’t die because of “vaccine failure,” as Mary Holland and Polly Tommey suggest.

I guess Dr Syed Haider hasn’t heard of genotype testing, which can help us tell the difference between measles strains. What have they found in Texas? The D8 strain. And since the vaccine is from the A strain, these are not vaccine induced cases of measles.

They died because they were unvaccinated and they were exposed to measles and got sick.

Their deaths should not surprise anyone, as measles is a life-threatening disease and the measles case count has been rising to the point that these deaths were inevitable.

And as long as people continue to believe anti-vaccine influencers who overstate the risks of vaccines, minimize the risks of getting sick with a vaccine-preventable disease, and push misinformation and propaganda about vaccines, we will see more cases and deaths of not only measles, but also pertussis, tetanus, meningitis, etc.

What can you do?

The best way to Stop Anti-Vaccine Propaganda is to get educated about vaccines.

References

Texas announces first death in measles outbreak. https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/texas-announces-first-death-measles-outbreak

Lea County resident tests positive for measles after death. https://www.nmhealth.org/news/alert/2025/3/?view=2188

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