Interesting article on the BBC site today about Measles. Data for the first 6 months of the year (2018) show that more than 41,000 people in Europe (800 in the UK) have caught the disease and 37 have died in that period. This is compared with 24,000 for the same period last year and 5,000 for the year before that. This is a spectacular increase a real "hockey-stick" curve in statistical terms, and entirely due to people not getting their kids vaccinated. We can certainly debate why people aren't heeding the advice of experts and getting protection, but it's highly probably the the current populist sentiment of being "anti-expert", or the "Dunning-Kruger" effect as I prefer to label it, combined with the totally fraudulent "vaccinations cause Autism" scare 20 years ago have probably both largely contributed, with a predictable outcome.
You'd be justified in thinking that there's a real determination on the part of many people to destroy the advances of recent decades, scientifically, economically, culturally and politically, it beggars belief sometimes.
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