• FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee
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    3 days 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.

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    4 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!

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    4 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.

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      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.

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      4 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!”

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        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.