Nobody should be surprised by this:
Today (1/1/26) the Kentucky Department for Public Health announced that an unvaccinated, out-of-state individual with measles visited the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky, on December 29, 2025. Local and regional health departments are scrambling to warn and inform the public.
It’s only what should be expected, given Ken Ham’s beliefs about disease prevention.
During the Covid pandemic and lockdown, Ken Ham railed against mask mandates, was involved in lawsuits against OSHA vaccine requirements and was ambivalent about vaccines. When writing about vaccine mandates and Covid lockdowns, Mr. Ham said:
Certainly, people died from the virus, although I think we are all confused at what the actual statistics are. People die every day from all sorts of diseases. But once a person dies, God’s Word tells us they will spend eternity in heaven or hell. So how essential is the church, the body of Christ (of which AiG is a part of), for people’s well-being? It is vital.
Once again, I’m wishing I believed in Hell…but only for Christians like Ken Ham.
I know it’s far from his most egregious offense, but… “of which AiG is a part of”? Has he ever heard of proofreading?
No, we were not and are not.
It is easy to count dead people.
This is known to be an undercount for various reasons.
The actual number of US people killed by the Covid-19 virus is more like 1.4 million.
People are still dying from the Covid-19 virus in the USA to this day.
I knew 3 people with Long Covid syndrome.
Two of them died within a year as a direct result of their Long Covid syndrome.
The third just got out of the hospital. Again.
Her medical problems are coming into focus now. Her heart was/is seriously damaged.
We are coming up on the time range to see if the hundreds of people exposed are infected (kids who aren’t homeschooled will be returning to class this week too: right when their symptoms would be appearing). Supposedly, AiG sent emails to the attendees who gave the Ark their email addresses when they bought tickets.No telling how many people didn’t provide their contact info. However, even after numerous stories in local media, AiG has not mentioned the outbreak on any of their websites or social media. Meanwhile, Ken Ham is off on a speaking tour of his native and sunny Australia.
Murderous Magats!
During HIS plague it was the magat-in-chief saying:
‘slow the testing down’
Because if there were no positive covid tests reported, he could pretend there wasn’t a pandemic
Now Roadkill Fracking Kennedy is part of the effort to stop reporting disease
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/24/g-s1-44613/cdc-nih-hhs-health-data-mmwr
Under communications freeze, CDC updates some important health data but …
Jan 24, 2025 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal health agencies are under a communications freeze which has affected some regular updates to public-facing health sites.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/cdc-stopped-actively-tracking-6-foodborne-infections-amid-budget-cuts/
CDC slashed food safety surveillance, now tracks only 2 of 8 top infections
Aug 27, 2025In July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dramatically, but quietly, scaled back a food safety surveillance system, cutting active tracking from eight top foodborne infections down …
AND, go to measlesepidemictracker dot com
2025 = 935
2024 = 122
2023 = 58
and so on
those running this country are the DEATH SPIRAL in action
Clearly Ken hasn’t cleaned the toilets recently.
/s
Before becoming U.S. House speaker, Mike Johnson defended Noah’s Ark attraction in Kentucky court to regain tax incentives lost in 2014
“But once a person dies, God’s Word tells us they will spend eternity in heaven or hell. So how essential is the church, the body of Christ (of which AiG is a part of), for people’s well-being?” And there we have it. These clowns think that what matters is not our actual lives, which we know exist, but our “after lives” which we inow don’t exist. Poor America that has such people in it.
I did.
2019 = 1,282 (Major outbreak year)
2018 = 375
…
2014 = 667
See, that’s a known cheat: take a dataset and cherry-pick a momentary period.
Tsk for that cheap tactic.
@8 John Morales talked about cherry picking a momentary period.
I reply: I listed the most recent three years, I didn’t indicate that was complete and I didn’t cherry pick any specific non-consecutive years that would show a false trend. I did not try to create a false impression, I openly suggested people go there and see for themselves. However, your list showing 3 non-consecutive years and not showing a clear long term trend could easily be considered cherry picking.
I have seen many other factual reports indicating that vaccines have, indeed, reduced the illness and death. I also, refer you to @16 garydargan 5 January 2026 at 7:20 pm at https://proxy.freethought.online/pharyngula/2026/01/05/speaking-of-disease/ relating a personal experience in regard to what happened prior to vaccines.
Your exculpation is duly noted, but “and so on” was pretty clear; slyly alluding to a a false trend it was.
Also, you misunderstand me.
Vaccines are awesome.
I myself a chockafull of them.
I’m all for them.
(I am not uninformed about them, either, for a layperson)
(Related: here in Oz, one of our school texts was
I Can Jump Puddles by F. W. Cheshire, 1955.
Autobiographical)
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OK. I believe you, shermanj.
Sorry.
Too judgemental, too hasty. Me.
Apologies.
John, thank you for your honest expression. I am sorry if my ‘and so on’ was vague. Here is a graphic source: since being hijacked, cbs is longer an automatically trusted source of news, but, the cdc graph halfway down gives a clear picture of measles from 2000 to 2025.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/measles-outbreak-us-map/
So, I hope we are all in agreement, here, that the world should work to find a vaccine against ignorance and violence.
@ ^ shermanj : If only we would and could.. Yes. Please.
@10. John Morales :
One of the first things I recall watching as a kid was the TV series based on Alan Marshall’s. book here – I Can Jump Puddles – epsidoe list on yt.
Did you ever see that?
Oh and, apparently, Alan Marshallis a humanist too. See his wikipage via his I can Jump Puddles page which I;ev just seen and learnt.
^ See :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Marshall_(Australian_writer)
Didn’t realise the book wasn’t by Aan Marshall till now either..