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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I remember when we weren't a developing country

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 14 hours ago

The worm is driving

[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 191 points 23 hours ago (12 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 87 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Bobby didn’t invent that first, so he’s not interested. MAGA are not followers, they are leaders! /s

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

his worms arnt interested.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago

what a jackass

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 91 points 23 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 23 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!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Won’t someone think of the health insurance providers…

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 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!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 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.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 23 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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 19 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 47 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Can the US rename the position to Secretary of Death? It sounds much cooler and is more fitting.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 20 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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 23 hours ago

It would be better if this guy fucks off.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Guys, if you live in Magastan, talk to your doctors, ask them to give you any shot they can of anything that needs a booster over time (or that you miss) and do it ASAP. If a new pandemic from a new virus comes, you'll be fucked, but at least you won't be if what you suffer is an epidemic of a fucking preventable disease.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Already did! They can't ban my blood from helping others now, can they!

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