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[–] FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee 7 points 4 hours 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.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 28 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Rest of the world should ban Americans from coming in. Who knows what kinds of diseases they might be carrying.

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 17 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

My local blood bank already wanted to know about any possible contact I might have had with Americans.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I remember when we weren't a developing country

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

2015.. If you want to write up some big long thing about how we've always been awful, can you just not?

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

underdeveloped country.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 8 hours ago

The worm is driving

[–] BookSnob@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It would be great if he would just fall off a cliff.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] tmyakal@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 18 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

what a jackass

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Lol, he's right. I got measles, or... at least, an attenuated version from the FFUKCING MMR VVAccine, you dolt!

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 6 hours ago

hes an expert he made sure samoa got measles, and got 86children killed by it.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours 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.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 187 points 16 hours ago (12 children)

What if you take the measles virus, weaken it and infect people with that?

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 84 points 16 hours ago

OMG, that's an awesome idea! Someone should try that!

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[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 21 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] protist@mander.xyz 10 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] Metostopholes@midwest.social 88 points 16 hours ago (11 children)

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.

[–] FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours 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.

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 1 points 5 hours ago

Won’t someone think of the health insurance providers…

[–] formergijoe@lemmy.world 50 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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!"

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours 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.

[–] FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 26 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 75 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

“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!

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 40 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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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[–] libra00@lemmy.world 22 points 14 hours 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.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 46 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce the United States Secretary of Health!

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[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 33 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Ah, measles. Nature's Ultimate Antivaxxer. Measles deletes your acquired immunities

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