There It Is: RFK Jr. Suggests Best Strategy For Combatting Measles Is For Everyone To Get It
Well that was fast. We were just talking about RFK Jr.’s recent comments on the measles outbreak in several southern states, mainly Texas, and how those comments were dangerous. The HHS Secre…
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“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.”
But measles carries a significant risk serious long-term illness or death, unlike the vaccine. And when everyone has the vaccine, very few people get the disease due to herd immunity, which worked fine for decades. Why can these people not hold two facts in their mind at the same time?
A chunk of Raisinhead's brain was eaten by worms from consuming roadkill. I'm surprised he can function at all.
Poor thing died of starvation.
If they did they’d have to stop mouth breathing.
I guess when you're dead, you do get lifetime protection.
Except that none of that is accurate and leaves out the crucial detail that getting measles destroys your body's antibody memory used to fight all the other diseases your body had already learned to fight. It also ignores the horrific and totally avoidable deaths that also resulted.
That’s why you get….. holy shit…. 15-20 years later….. a second shot! My gawd the woke inconvenience of it all!