intro to measles report

The Covid-19 outbreak is currently used to justify all kinds of drastic changes in public policy in Washington State.
But how did we get to the point where state gov't can institute those kind of changes?
Digging on measles outbreaks in Washington, we found that measles served as a "gateway disease" for mandating changes in public policy -
especially vaxxing policy.

The interesting part is that outbreaks of measles have really not involved that many cases or resulted in serious complications.
Measles outbreaks have not, for example, been as deadly as those of N1H1, Zika or Ebola.
The 1990 outbreak was notable in that there were 5x as many cases as in the previous year (266; see below). In 2019, although there were only 87 cases, this was touted as "the most cases the state has seen since 1990" (see below). In both cases, there was a lot of emphasis placed on MMR vaccinations.

__'''So here is the question'''__:
==Was the gov't stance on the 2019 measles outbreak a dress rehearsal for policies we now see implemented with Covid-19??==
Was the DS "testing the waters" to see how people would react?
Are the current Covid policies further testing the waters, to see how far WA state can push its totalitarian agenda?

The following reports provide a history of policy statements on measles for Washington state.