# Massive measles outbreak - thank you, Andrew Fucking Wakefield **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 19, 2013, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massive-measles-outbreak-thank-you-andrew-fucking-wakefield/656119 "2013-04-19T10:56:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 686
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massive-measles-outbreak-thank-you-andrew-fucking-wakefield/656119/686 "2013-09-08T02:21:48Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > That is what “one cannot eliminate diseases that have vaccines if we have people coming who have never had access to the shots” means. Bullshit. Why don’t they “have access”? Because they’re from Mexico? You think they don’t have vaccinations in Mexico? Why not? Mexico, unlike the US and like much of the rest of the developed world, has a fucking public [universal health system](http://open.salon.com/blog/loveinmexico/2011/02/14/a_healthy_body_politic_vaccines_in_mexico). Vaccinations are free and widely available to the public. And they’re pretty good about making sure kids get them. Vaccination rates for [pertussis](http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.IMM.IDPT/countries) and [measles](http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.IMM.MEAS/countries) is higher in Mexico than the US. “Never had access”? What the fuck does that mean? Not only do they have access, they fucking USE IT. More of their kids are vaccinated than ours. The idea that just because we live in the US, we must have better availability of vaccines is easily disproven - get your head out of your ass and look up the stats. That the idea even popped into your head is a classic example of racism. A simple 1 minute Google search shows the opposite of what you claim, you racist, ignorant piece of filth. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massive-measles-outbreak-thank-you-andrew-fucking-wakefield/656119)._