Full marks if you recognise the quote…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Did you know that the UK is now grouped with Albania, Czech Republic, and Greece?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you know why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because we’re no longer measles free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why’s that? Because people believe the comments posted about vaccinations being a cause of various issues, including autism, and then not vaccinating their kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That’s both selfish and reckless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s not the only way that social media, in particular, affects the UK in a negative manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Learn science. Learn history. Learn technology. Whatever you do – learn!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or else history will come back to haunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Check out the status aspect here: https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/08\/29\/health\/europe-measles-outbreaks-scli-intl\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Full marks if you recognise the quote… Did you know that the UK is now grouped with Albania, Czech Republic, and Greece? Do you know why? Because we’re no longer measles free. Why’s that? Because people believe the comments posted about vaccinations being a cause of various issues, including autism, and then not vaccinating their … Continue reading “Not with a bang but a whimper?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}