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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

You first buddy!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 16 hours ago

Damn. If only there was a way to get protection against measles without having to get measles. Some sort of injection. That'd be useful.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Heroin really makes you focus too, it’s great for long study sessions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

also convinced govt of somoa to stop MEASLES VACCINATION, resulting in 86 children deaths. also drove his former wife to suicide.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ask not what your immune system can do for you, but what you can do for your immune system

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

replace immune system with worms.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

"the vaccine is useful for some protection and for other people it wanes"

Yeah and the measles makes some people immune and for some people they die.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

The right has become such a weird ass death cult, and yet they still insist on calling themselves "right to life".

[–] [email protected] 22 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Hand picked by the president to be the best person for the job for leading the dept of health.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Thank goodness we are finally hiring based on merit!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

Brainworms like measles.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’d be better if you were an obscure and unimportant member of the Kennedy family and stayed that way.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

dint know he existed til he announced his run.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

I heard about him from a Behind the Bastards podcast a few years back. I knew he was a dumpster fire and was really surprised/not surprised he got a position.

Surprised because he’s an idiot. Not surprised because it’s par for this administration.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

He’s so gross.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

The dems really need to appoint a shadow cabinet and hold press conferences with fact checks and useful advice about how to get vaccinated.

I'm glad that I am science literate and live close to the canadian border.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Roald Dahl's wight, kill this man.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

a goauld symbiote ate his brain.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Dont trust the medical institutions until you're sick" is just the self-harm logical extension version of the plague of right-wing myopia of broke self-reliance americanism and detriment individualism. American culture is completely unsalvageable

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

At what point do we get to demand hazard pay from our employers for going into the office?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That would remove a lot of vaccine skepticism

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Never fail to underestimate how much failures cause people to become more dug in than realize something is off.

I remember in the early 2000s atheist sites would often pose questions about how believers could continue to believe when natural disasters and disease go rampant.

The facts? Natural disasters, when they happen to believers, make them MORE entrenched in their beliefs and not less.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)
  • Measles estimated case-fatality rate: 1.3%
  • Estimated US population: 346,715,067
  • Measles deaths if everyone in the US got measles: 4,507,295
  • Upper limit on estimated MMR vaccine caused anaphylaxis: 0.000066%
  • Anaphylaxis case-fatality rate: 0.3%
  • Estimated vaccine-caused fatality rate: 1.98 * 10^-7 %
  • Estimate vaccine-caused fatalities avoided by not vaccinating US population: 0.69
  • Net increase in fatalities from switching to measles natural immunity for everyone in the US: 4,507,294

So it would only be better if he wants an extra 4.5 million Americans to die.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago

his worms are willing to make that sacrifice.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Measles also resets your immune system, making other illnesses deadly again.

Back in the day you'd survive Smallpox, then get Measles, then get Smallpox again.

These days, I guess it will be Covid and the Flu killing most people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Beat me to it. People forget that that is one of the worst aspects of surviving measels. Your immune system is fucked. Meaning you will die from some disease you HAD immunity to previously. This is why measels was effectively a death sentence if you got it as an adult.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

its more or less immunosuppression rather than resetting it, measles infect the dendritic cells which tells your t-cells to attack, so when those are destroyed your body cant react to new diseases, its also a form "acquired immunodeficiency", your body still can fight, it just takes a lot longer, since b-cells takes a while to pump out enough antibodies.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are there any other complications from contracting measles that you haven't factored in?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I was about to say, the collapse of the hospital system under the burden of both measles and all the other reasons people will still need hospitals will multiply that percentage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Well I was told that deporting people would solve the housing crisis. Since that isn't working out killing 4.5 million Americans seems like their fallback position.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let the entirety of the US have measles, and a good percentage will die, another good part will be scarred for life and have disabilities from it and the country will collapse

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

And then Trump will rescind the ADA and disability benefits so those unable to (fully) work will become homeless and destitute and die from exposure or police brutality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

And being an American cop will be more the lieu of people who want to murder legally than serve their community.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

And being an American cop will be more the lieu of people who want to murder legally than serve their community.

So... Today?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Only far, far worse.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 day ago

We did that, we gave everyone a very mild, usually symptomless, case of the measles. We called it vaccination.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Dumb son of a bitch doesn’t even understand that a vaccine is “giving someone the disease” without killing them. God damn are we devolving that fast?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

He's a drug addict. While I'm all for people overcoming addiction, it should disqualify them from this very specific job.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Brain worms: not even once.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No RFK, things would be much better if YOU got measles

With you gone, people could vaccinate again and then they wouldn't get sick, you worm for brains

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

United States Secretary of Health and Human Services here everybody.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

We are in such a crazy timeline.

This is the kind of shit you'd see on some forum. If the forum was moderated, they'd eventually get booted.

When I was debating fucking morons like this, I never suspected that one of these assholes would be put in charge of our fucking health. It's just so insane.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What a stupid motherfucker. Anyone who voted for these venal clowns ought to be ashamed of themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think RFK is the Horseman of Plague. Guess the role of Famine goes to Musk, and War belongs to Trump. I am not yet sure who is Death, but they will reveal themselves soon enough.

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[–] [email protected] 153 points 1 day ago (4 children)

“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.

Wouldn't it be great if there was something else that gave you protection against measles infection, without you actually having to have measles? If only ...

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