On January 26, thousands of people -- who we can pretty much guarantee do not give a flying shit about the hundreds of children this administration has imprisoned in its detention centers -- hit the streets of Washington DC to petition for even more control over women's bodies than the overturning of Roe v. Wade gave them. Also to hear JD Vance, great defender of the unborn, complain about how offensive he finds it that transgender people exist.

These, clearly, were people who love life! And babies! Just ... maybe not so much the babies that are too young to be vaccinated.

Because, in a less-than-incredible twist, there just so happened to be a big ol' measles outbreak in Washington DC linked to that very march.

Please, feel free to fetch your smelling salts if necessary.

Via NPR:

"DC Health was notified of multiple confirmed cases of measles whose carriers visited multiple locations in the District while contagious," the agency said in a press release on Sunday. "DC Health is informing people who were at these locations that they may have been exposed."

Potential exposure sites from Jan. 21 to Feb. 2 include major transit such as Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Union Station, an Amtrak Northeast Regional train and D.C.'s subway system, according to DC Health. The agency says infected individuals also visited the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and Catholic University.

Children's National Hospital issued a public health notice concerning potential exposure in its Emergency Department. The notice said a Virginia resident, who was confirmed to have measles, visited the department while contagious on Feb. 2.

So, clearly, we're dealing with some very holy Typhoid Marys.

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