The trail to Oregon is marked with misery, broken wagon axles, losing days due to heavy fog, Sarah getting shot in a hunting accident, Henry being exhausted, Samuel getting bitten by a snake, and, most famously, Mary contracting dysentery. What the game didn’t tell you however is the harsh reality of this Gateway Pundit article, largely copy-pasted from its upstream source at KOIN:

There’s dysentery in Oregon too. Cases of the horrible bacterial illness recorded by health officials have steadily increased in the Portland metro’s Multnomah County since June 2024 when there were only six to 45 in January 2025. On an annual basis, there were just 19 in 2017, rising to 158 in 2024, a spread mostly connected to the homeless population and drug use as 60 percent of those infected were said to be living on the streets. Noting this, the Gateway Pundit’s article asserts “It doesn’t have to be this way and it’s amazing that the taxpayers of Portland put up with it. There are Third World countries that do a better job preventing the spread of common diseases.”

Funny that, as since January 1st, 2025, the Pundit has printed a grand total of one article containing the word “measles”: a February 19th screed headlined “MIC DROP: Dr Paul Offit’s Attempt to Smear RFK Jr Blows Up on CNN as Calley Means Exposes His Big Pharma Ties – Calley Also Calls Out CNN for Bias.” The article is almost entirely blockquotes copy-pasted from the transcript of the CNN segment and the lone mention of measles outside of which is where the “Pundit,” Jim Hoft fondles himself over how Means “boldly called out CNN for its blatant bias, pointing out that while the network obsesses over a handful of measles cases, it ignores the true epidemic plaguing America: chronic disease fueled by ultra-processed food and overmedication.” Except for lib dysentery.