Lets see
1) Texas 803 cases,
2) Arizona 137 cases
3) New Mexico 100 cases
The rest of the country @ 700 cases.

The apparently "blue states" of Alabama and Nebraska 1 case each. Florida? 6 cases.

Deaths: Texas 2, New Mexico 1, rest of country 0.

Whose spreading BS?

Not really. There are several problems that arise so it doesn't work as well in practice as you might think. The first is what do you do if a child isn't immunized? Kick them out of school? There was a mandate for MMR's when I was going door to door to get kids immunized, but the schools were loathe to throw a kid our of school. Especially the kids whose parents were unable to get it together to get them immunized.

The problem with immunizing every kid is some kids really shouldn't be immunized. So you need to deal with screening those kids out. There aren't very many of them, but you can't know which ones. Doing it without parental approval is a non-starter politically.

You also have the problem in the US with freedom of religion. There are religious objections to various vaccines. Forcing kids to be vaccinated violates their religious freedom. And you can't really show that a small number of unvaccinated kids creates a public health problem that warrants violating their religious beliefs. We only need almost all kids immunized

The real problem is what we see now in places like Texas. They don't want to spend the money needed to keep a public health system in place where only a small number of kids do not get immunized. Racism, ideology and short sighted penny-pinchers are the primary culprits for that reality.

Right along with the growth in bullshit science. A lot of it funded by commercial interests. Some of it by data mined correlations presented as scientific facts. And a lot of it transmitted through popular media by people who don't really understand the science, but do understand what will make an interesting story for their readers. And don't let the real science get in the way.

Measles vaccines are not really mandated health care. They are public health measures designed to prevent the spread of the disease.

You can make the case that COVID vaccination was mandated health care since the vaccines were neither designed nor tested for their ability to prevent transmission. Although there is some evidence they at least have some limited effect on it. They were designed to help people fight off the disease once they contracted it. And they were really incredibly effective at that.

No he hasn't been the thought leader for anything other than the Democratic party who spend all their time addressing his endless stream of meaningless self-aggrandizing propaganda.

They haven't delivered it. Jimmy Carter promised universal health care. As has every democratic candidate for president since. Some of them won. None of them delivered. They all blamed the Republicans.

Did he? That was certainly the message of antt-Trumpers. And it certainly reached his core of supporters since their enemies were repeating it over and over. Do you think that message helped or hurt?

Trumps primary messengers have always been his enemies. He says something stupid and they repeat it over and over until it becomes the truth. Can you imagine that the anti-Trumpers would have opposed vaccines if Biden had attacked them as having been rushed into production to help Trump get elected? Not likely. Or if he had praised Trump for his "warp speed" program to produce them? Not likely.

Lets be clear. Trump is an egotistical megalomaniac. He has no ideology other than personal aggrandizement. And his best allies in that effort are the anti-Trumpers that keep him at the center of attention. All anyone really knew about Harris was that she was "not Trump". Because that's all they saw she talked about.

Yes, they are. Most parents are getting their kids vaccinated. There is no doubt that all the attention paid to anti-vaxxers has raised questions among a lot more parents. But who shined the spotlight on them? The anti-Trumpers for whom all things are Trump. When Bobby Kennedy says he supports measles vaccinations the first thing out of the anti-Trumpers mouth is to repeat his earlier anti-vaxxer rhetoric. Note comments above. And here you are defending the message against measles vaccination as "not fringe".

The federal government is not in the lending business, its borrowing money just to meet its everyday expenses. It would be interesting to see how this is accounted for. On a corporate balance sheet it would be a wash. Cash out, loan accepted. But its likely his loan is not used to offset the increase in the federal debt required to make it.. Anyone know for sure?

They aren't using the data to decide the narrative. That would be completely backwards. Their source has a story to tell and their main interest is a narrative that tells that story. The data follows from that. Journalists lack the time and largely lack the skill to go picking through data. They just use what their source gives them.

1) Canada has already lost its status. Its hard to see how that is Trump's fault.

2) Trump has only been in office for less than a year. Its unlikely the measles outbreak is a result of any of his policies.

3) The outbreak is all along the southwest border with large populations of people who lack access to regular health care.

Blaming anti-vaxxers is attributing way too much power to a fringe group. Perhaps we should look at years of neglect of public health in those states instead. With millions of people lacking access to basic health care what did you expect?

"Trump did it" has become the standard excuse for the widespread failure of our political class.You can just point the finger at Trump and pretend the problems will be solved when he goes away. So his rival politicians will spend the next three years talking about Trump instead of addressing how to make our lives better.

Its not that there isn't a lot to criticize about Trump. Its that most of the criticism is directed at minor sideshows like this one. And I say that as a former community health worker who spent a couple years knocking on parent's doors to increase the level of MMR vaccinations in local schools. I may have run into one parent who opposed vaccination. The rest just lacked the personal resources to get their kids immunized. They had a hard time making sure their kids had breakfast and got to school.

Had a clearly stated public purpose and benefit whether you agreed with it or not. This appears to be an investment to benefit one specific already highly profitable business - Microsoft.

Which gives them access to another account that has nothing of value. Which is one of the reasons for having a low grade password that you reuse, can easily remember and don't expect to provide any real security. Moreover passwords of any kind don't provide security for anything of real value. And the real danger has little to do with individual's password quality.

Given that these are low value sites where anyone can create an account, I am not sure how randomly breaking into my account would be of much benefit. You can just create your own.

None of that is secure information, its out there all over the place. And the most likely sources are not randomly trying to break weak random passwords one at a time.

I'm trying to figure out what the public benefit is of a loan to re-open a power plant for the sole purpose of powering Microsoft's data center. Isn't this what banks and venture capitalists do for private businesses. If they aren't willing to take on the risk why should the taxpayers?

I suspect many/most/all of us have accounts that have no need for security. There is no reason someone would try to use the account and no consequences for us if they do.

Because if you were you wouldn't think that hospitals would close for lack of masks

Why would we do that?

It doesn't matter what you think. You weren't in the room when the decision was made. Your opinion is irrelevant.

Of course the purpose of the masks is to prevent them from catching COVID.