• Metostopholes
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    962 days ago

    To illustrate how fucking insane this is:

    Measles has a death rate of 1-2 per 1000 cases. With US population at 340,000,000, that means 340,000 - 680,000 dead. And that’s out of the 85 million people hospitalized, which would be a society destroying situation.

    • @[email protected]
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      562 days ago

      Not only that but measles can cause immune amnesia! Which is when “the immune system forgets how to fight off infections it successfully dealt with before—and [research] showed that this effect lasts for years!”

      • @[email protected]
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        51 day ago

        not only forgets, but the measles infects the dendritic cells which presents antigens to T-cells(i thought it was b-cells) which fights the viruses, so its actually immunosuppression.

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        I did not know that and thinking of that stuff like this is possible is fucking scary.

    • Tar_Alcaran
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      Measles has a death rate of 1-2 per 1000 cases

      Oh, its much worse. That’s the death rate for people who get treated, in a vaccinated population in a modern hospital. In low-income countries (or in, say, places with 85 million hospitalizations) over 20 out of a thousand people die. And in displaced refugee children, it can rocket up to 3 out of every 10 infected children dying.

    • @[email protected]
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      162 days ago

      And that’s just death, measles also creates life long conditions, some that appear years or decades after. For example the way he speaks, his disease is linked to childhood measles ironically.

      Also another bad thing about makes is that it can reset your immune system, so now other diseases that you didn’t have to be afraid before now can be deadly.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 day ago

      They do try to destroy the country in every possible way. At this point they just want to make sure it’s really dead.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 day ago

          lmao, imagining RFK scooping up some roadkill, preparing it and having a bbq all in pleasure at the top and causal Friday at the bottom with his cute blue jeans, is hilarious and idiotic at the same time.

  • @[email protected]
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    “It used to be, when I were a kid, that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” he said, then taking a swipe at the vaccine. “The vaccine doesn’t do that. The vaccine is effective for some people for life, but for many people it wanes.”

    “Some”=97%, “Many”=3%
    And you know what the vaccine also doesn’t do? Kill you!

    • @[email protected]
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      452 days ago

      I love how they say shit like “it wanes” as though that’s a reason to not get it. Like, just get a fucking booster and you’re good.

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        For real, I thought he was going to name something of actual consequence even if it wasn’t true like, “it makes your head explode.” But, “it wanes”??? Uh ok, it wanes so some people might get measles anyway. Isn’t that just problem solved then since you think infection is good? Completely nonsensical.

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      MTG pulled this stupid shit promoting “measles parties”. For the younger folks, let me explain.

      Parents used to deliberately infect their kids with chicken pox. No big deal for litte 'uns, big deal when you’re older. (Got it at 16, still have the scars 40-years later. And yes, I’m up on my shingles vaccine.)

      These people are so dumb they’re conflating chicken pox and measles. Fuck me, I’m just now learning about measles because that shit was gone when I was a child. It was like polio or smallpox, unheard of.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 day ago

    And that’s why I got all the vaccines. All of em. I treat vaccines like a sticker album or Pokémon cards. Gotta have them all… and the shiny ones are best.

  • FlashMobOfOne
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    192 days ago

    I really hate that this motherfucker gets government-funded health care now, because every nasty-ass virus he gets is not only going to be well-treated, but actively buried.

    • rigatti
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      121 day ago

      I’m sure he had bonkers good healthcare before anyway. His name is Robert Fucking Kennedy Jr…

  • @[email protected]
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    222 days ago

    Okay brainworm, go intentionally get the measles and let us watch you for the next 6 months so we see how safe it is.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 days ago

      Unfortunately, he’s almost certainly vaccinated against measles, because his parents were sane people

    • @[email protected]
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      61 day ago

      he made sure the children of SAMOA got measles, and about 86+ died from it, when he convinced the govt to stop vaccinations.

  • GladiusB
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    132 days ago

    God I can’t wait for this season of South Park

  • Libra00
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    232 days ago

    No, what would be better is if that guy got a bad case of my backhand across his mouth every time he opens it.

  • @[email protected]
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    142 days ago

    A recent episode of The House of Pod podcast included a virologist and an ER doctor (the host is a gastroenterologist) and they talked about measles and the potential lifelong effects that a non-fatal case can cause, like blindness or deafness. They also contrast with the efficacy of the vaccine, the virologist got checked before going to SE Asia and despite her last MMR dose being in the 90s she had enough antibodies that her doctor said she didn’t need a booster. She went on to talk about how while measles has mutated it has not changed to bypass immunity.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 day ago

      one of the fun things virus love to do is give people meningitis, and encephalitis, its more common then people think. chickenpox(and also shingles),mumps,rubella all can do this too.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 day ago

      his worms will keep him alive though, his body is a just a empty husk, hollowed about the worms.

      • tmyakal
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        31 day ago

        He’s just Mister Oogie-Boogie from Nightmare Before Christmas at this point.