cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40537048
“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
If only there was another proven way of doing this without the risk of serious complications of getting sick.
It would be better if he dropped the fuck dead on live tv.
It sure would be a shame… If he caught measles.
He may of honestly
What a crazy guy
What if we could simulate everyone getting the measles without actually getting the real disease?
Measles silently wipes clean the immune system’s memory of past infections. In this way, the virus can cast a long and dangerous shadow for months, or even years, scientists are finding. The resulting “immune amnesia” leaves people vulnerable to other viruses and bacteria that cause pneumonia, ear infections and diarrhea.
Those aftereffects make measles “the furthest thing from benign,” says infectious disease epidemiologist and pathologist Michael Mina of Harvard University. “It really puts you at increased susceptibility for everything else.” And that has big consequences, recent studies show.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/measles-immune-system-memory-infection
What an insane thing to say.
Well that sort of is what a vaccine is…
No, no it isn’t. If you aren’t just being a snarky bastard and want the difference explained, ask.
No.
He didn’t actually say this, he said that the vaccination immunity doesn’t last a lifetime and doesn’t get passed from the mother, which increases the risk to the very young and elderly. He very explicitly encouraged people to get vaccinated.
I don’t like him but in this particular case he hasn’t said anything wrong. My only problem with what he said is the way he weighed the potential side effects of the vaccine and measles as if they’re even remotely comparable.
Articles like these act as noise which drowns out the much larger issues in the administration.
People are literally going to die because of him.
You first
You guys might want to check your vaccinations are up to date…
Just got three of mine updated. I just don’t understand the anti-vaccine sentiment from parents were have been vaccinated their entire lives and have no adverse effects.
Like. The critical thinking is in the negative.
Got tetanus updated. Apparently that was recommended on my last medical checkup.
This guy is the classic villain
You first, Bobby
I hope he fucking dies soon.
In developed countries the mortality rate is lower, for example in England and Wales from 2007 to 2017 death occurred between two and three cases out of 10,000
In children one to three cases out of every 1,000 die in the United States (0.1–0.2%)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles
So, the US has ~340 million people with 21% under 18. Maybe half are under 10? That’s about 34 million children. Say none of them were vaccinated and they all got measles. That’s 34k dead kids.
Vaccination rates are probably around 90% at the moment though, so of the 34 million, 3.4 million would be susceptible. That’s 340 dead kids.If RFK Jr. thinks that’s an acceptable number of lives to sacrifice, go ahead. Do it.
