• A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.com
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    • Measles estimated case-fatality rate: 1.3%
    • Estimated US population: 346,715,067
    • Measles deaths if everyone in the US got measles: 4,507,295
    • Upper limit on estimated MMR vaccine caused anaphylaxis: 0.000066%
    • Anaphylaxis case-fatality rate: 0.3%
    • Estimated vaccine-caused fatality rate: 1.98 * 10^-7 %
    • Estimate vaccine-caused fatalities avoided by not vaccinating US population: 0.69
    • Net increase in fatalities from switching to measles natural immunity for everyone in the US: 4,507,294

    So it would only be better if he wants an extra 4.5 million Americans to die.

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      Measles also resets your immune system, making other illnesses deadly again.

      Back in the day you’d survive Smallpox, then get Measles, then get Smallpox again.

      These days, I guess it will be Covid and the Flu killing most people.

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        Beat me to it. People forget that that is one of the worst aspects of surviving measels. Your immune system is fucked. Meaning you will die from some disease you HAD immunity to previously. This is why measels was effectively a death sentence if you got it as an adult.

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        its more or less immunosuppression rather than resetting it, measles infect the dendritic cells which tells your t-cells to attack, so when those are destroyed your body cant react to new diseases, its also a form “acquired immunodeficiency”, your body still can fight, it just takes a lot longer, since b-cells takes a while to pump out enough antibodies.

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        I was about to say, the collapse of the hospital system under the burden of both measles and all the other reasons people will still need hospitals will multiply that percentage.

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      Well I was told that deporting people would solve the housing crisis. Since that isn’t working out killing 4.5 million Americans seems like their fallback position.

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    Damn. If only there was a way to get protection against measles without having to get measles. Some sort of injection. That’d be useful.

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    Dumb son of a bitch doesn’t even understand that a vaccine is “giving someone the disease” without killing them. God damn are we devolving that fast?

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    The dems really need to appoint a shadow cabinet and hold press conferences with fact checks and useful advice about how to get vaccinated.

    I’m glad that I am science literate and live close to the canadian border.

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    Measles also resets your immune system for every other thing your body already learned to deal with. No, it would not be fucking better.

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        I heard about him from a Behind the Bastards podcast a few years back. I knew he was a dumpster fire and was really surprised/not surprised he got a position.

        Surprised because he’s an idiot. Not surprised because it’s par for this administration.

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      also convinced govt of somoa to stop MEASLES VACCINATION, resulting in 86 children deaths. also drove his former wife to suicide.

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        No, in Samoa there were vaccines administered incorrectly and people died. Their hesitancy was well-founded.

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    No RFK, things would be much better if YOU got measles

    With you gone, people could vaccinate again and then they wouldn’t get sick, you worm for brains

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    Remember the conspiracy theorists who though “the government” was using Covid-19 to cull the population? I wonder what they’re up to right now.

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      Probably ranting about how the shadow government is out to get Trump and Elon after they started saving America

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      These were the same ding-a-lings that couldn’t seem to make up their mind whether it was “just like the flu” (people were only dying “with” Covid, not from it) and any concern about it was just drummed up by “the media” and Fauci to ruin little d’s chances of re-election and kill all of our freedoms to go vaxless and maskless to super-spreader events, OR an intentional thing from Fauci/Soros/Gates working with the Chinese to kill everyone.

      I mean, even in their own bullshit fictional universe, things don’t fit together. I have no idea how so many of these people manage to conduct the rest of their lives, but I cannot imagine living in those heads of theirs.

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    I think RFK is the Horseman of Plague. Guess the role of Famine goes to Musk, and War belongs to Trump. I am not yet sure who is Death, but they will reveal themselves soon enough.

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    What a stupid motherfucker. Anyone who voted for these venal clowns ought to be ashamed of themselves.

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      Never fail to underestimate how much failures cause people to become more dug in than realize something is off.

      I remember in the early 2000s atheist sites would often pose questions about how believers could continue to believe when natural disasters and disease go rampant.

      The facts? Natural disasters, when they happen to believers, make them MORE entrenched in their beliefs and not less.