“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.
  • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    “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!

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      2 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.

  • Metostopholes@midwest.socialEnglish
    64·
    2 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.

    • formergijoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 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!”

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 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.

    • takeda@lemm.eeEnglish
      13·
      2 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.

    • FreeRangeMustard@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 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.

  • FreeRangeMustard@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    1 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 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.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 day ago

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

      • tmyakal@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 day ago

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

  • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    2 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.

  • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.netEnglish
    11·
    2 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.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 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.