Just a friendly reminder that the R∅ for measles is 12 to 18 making one of the most infectious diseases of the modern world.
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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For comparison: the R∅ of the 1918 Spanish flu was estimated to be between 1.4 and 2.8.
Early-COVID was estimated around 2 as well.
Covids less even now, but you become infectious so much sooner that it actually spreads faster.
You can get 3-5 generations of covid before the first generation of measels is contagious
If an unvaccinated person enters a room where a person with measles had been an hour previously, there's a 90% chance the unvaccinated person gets infected. It's crazy.
Now just think about when small pox was a thing...
What could possibly go wrong?
Ladapo is an accessory to murder whenever an unvaccinated child dies.
It’s Florida what did you expect
Sounds like the same Florida that attacked health care officials during Covid to the point of attacking children of them to make a point.
That state is fucked up and yet full of rich cunts who think of it as a permanent vacation because they stole wealth from their original home.
If you’re a Florida parent listening to a Qanut for advice, well.
You’re entering a world of pain.
Hopefully it's only antivaxxers' kids who die because of this.
Children shouldn't have to die because of braindead parents.
Tell that to child protective services, who aren't doing their goddamn jobs and taking kids away from unfit antivaxxer parents.
Imagine wishing death on innocent children while being convinced you still somehow have any kind of moral high ground over anti-vaxxers (or anyone, for that matter)..
This feels like culling the herd with extra steps. Like... Someone smart was like... Hey, we need to get rid of dumb people. How do we do that? Oh, I know... Make a place where the dumb people really want to go by relaxing laws that protect people from being dumb. Then, we'll make the dummies believe they're the smart and patriotic ones for moving there. When they all wind up in this insane distopia, let's just... Infect them with measles and tell them it's fine! As long as Facebook and a bunch of weirdo authority figures reinforce their dumb feelings of being smart, in the end, we won't even need a genocidal dictator or gas chambers! The dummies will do the job for us!
I mean... it's just a thought. That's not really what's happening...
... Right?
Yep. Let the virus do Darwins work and remove offspring of antivaxxers from the herd.
Constant reminder the GOP only value kids until the nanosecond they're born, then fuck em.