Since the beginning of the year, the Free Thought Project has been reporting on the hysteria associated with the measles outbreak and the subsequent loss of liberties and police state crackdown that's ensued. We've seen children banned from public spaces, mandatory vaccinations enforced with police action, and a pro-vaccine push in the mainstream media like we've never seen before.  In May, the pro-mandatory vaccine push reached a new level, as the Washington Post published an article calling for the arrest of those who choose not to vaccinate. Now we are seeing the result of said hysteria and it comes in the form of massive pharmaceutical industry profits.

On Tuesday, the pharmaceutical giant Merck said consumer demand for its measles vaccine skyrocketed thanks to the "outbreak" which helped boost sales in its second quarter. 

According to CNBC, sales of children's vaccines, which includes the New Jersey-based company's MMR vaccine, for measles, mumps and rubella, jumped 58% year over year to $675 million, Merck announced in its second-quarter earnings report Tuesday. Merck, which is the sole U.S. supplier of measles vaccines, said the strong growth was due in part to this year's measles outbreak, which was the largest in the U.S. since 1992.

Merch Chief Commercial Officer Frank Clyburn even mentioned the coverage in the news specifically.

"There was some buying to the private sector within the U.S. this quarter based on some of the measles outbreaks that you read in the news," Clyburn said in a post-earnings conference call with investors. "And we do believe that we'll continue to see growth for our pediatric vaccines going forward."

Outbreaks are good for business and so is media hysteria that successfully whipped Americans into a fit of fear so massive that they are now supporting measures that include locking parents in cages for refusing to vaccinate as well as banning unvaccinated people from public spaces.

And all of this is over just 1,164 cases of measles, as of July 25. Not a single person has died from it and those 1,164 people are now immune to measles.

As TFTP reported at the end of March, in one of the most shocking moves to date over the 2019 measles outbreak, Rockland County officials declared a state of emergency and effectively banned any child under the age of 18, who had not received the MMR vaccine, from all public spaces. Then, in April, officials took it one step further and ordered mandatory vaccinations for multiple New York zip codes. Those who try to resist getting the shots are being fined.