“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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    1 month 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
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      1 month 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.

  • ArtVandelay@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

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

  • Metostopholes@midwest.socialEnglish
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    1 month 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
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      1 month 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
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        1 month 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.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 month 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.

  • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month 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.