Zoe Vance
LightNews LightNews
banner
zoev22.bsky.social
Zoe Vance
@zoev22.bsky.social
350 followers 870 following 20 posts
🇮🇪 post doc-ing in Bath, living in Bristol. Political complaining with flavours of bioinf and evol bio. Interested in gene dosage evolution and polyploids
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Zoe Vance
seamas.bsky.social
💉
Measles cases have soared by 20% worldwide in the past year, with 742 cases in the UK alone. In August, shortly after a 10-year-old girl in Liverpool died from the disease, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health stated that the UK’s child vaccination rates have not met the World Health Organisation’s target of 95% since 2021. This rather undersells the situation. Sky News reports that “the England-wide rate for the final quarter of 2024/25 for MMR was 88.8%, down from 92.7% 10 years ago” and that “uptake in some local authorities is as low as 60%”. Far be it from me to weigh in on an issue that has become so politicised, as merely a parent who wants my children and those of others to stay alive, but I have a sinking feeling. A feeling exacerbated by a single red box on a perfunctory form and the idle chatter of concerned parents who no longer get their vaccine sceptic news from insane websites and specialist cults, but from prime-time appearances by the country’s most prominent politicians and journalists. A feeling that our children might wonder how we all lived through a (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime global virus that killed millions, was effectively cured by the single most rapid and successful vaccination programme in history and which, immediately afterwards, gave way to anti-science posturing that drove vaccination rates to historic lows.
October 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Reposted by Zoe Vance
davidwearing.bsky.social
I will simply end this thread by saying that we need to reckon with the enormity of what Britain has done over the past two years. This is worse even than the invasion of Iraq. Do we want to live in a country, or a world, where there aren't consequences for this sort of behaviour?
September 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM