The death of a New Mexico adult comes eight days after a 6-year-old child succumbed to the disease in Texas last week.

An unvaccinated New Mexico adult who tested positive for measles has died, the second death in a growing measles outbreak centered along the West Texas-New Mexico border, officials said Thursday.

The individual did not seek medical care before death, New Mexico health department officials said. The official cause of death is still under investigation by New Mexico’s Office of the Medical Investigator. However, the state health department scientific laboratory has confirmed the presence of the measles virus in the person, the state health department said.

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      because they’re solipsists, they functionally do not, cognitively, live in our material reality, and when material reality effects them, they contrive a reason within their own fantasy world for it to have happened that works on, if not fails to contradict, the internal vibes based ‘logics’ of the fantasy. they’re effectively characters in a very very poorly written fantasy novel, and it’s very difficult to give a shit when the writing is so inept.

      also they want to murder you, and maybe have the means to do it. also tends to undermine sympathy.

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      I think it’s a human defense mechanism to stop feeling bad.

      You see it’s bad, you know it’s bad, but if the subconscious constantly reminds you of that fact, it would be very overwhelming for the conscious mind.