When I was growing up in India I believed that I was surrounded by the dumbest and most ignorant people on earth, then I moved to the US for a while and was surprised most people remembered to breathe.
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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The unvax'd population in India is greater than the population of the United States. Unfortunately, only 90% of the US is vax'd against measles, which is a staggering number in and of itself, but I'm not sure of the demographic breakdown of it.
Yeah but the unvaxxed population in India are literally living in shacks with dirt floors and can barely read but the unvaxxed population in the US choose this because of facebook posts
Measles? No no no, we're talking America here, you mean
Freedom Sores
as vaccination rates plummet, freedom ~~soars~~ sores
I guess the idea behind a "measles party" is to introduce the virus to the child's immune system so that they can develop antibodies for it?
Damn, if only there was a safer way. Like if a doctor could introduce a very small amount of the virus to the child's immune system. Do you think a dead virus would be enough for the immune system to learn what it is and how to fight it? Why aren't scientists working on this?!
What's hilarious to me is that this was totally a Thing when I was younger.
Not for measels, because we weren't braindead dumbfucks, but for chickenpox.
You'd have whole groups of kids get together to have everyone get sick at once, instead of one kid at a time for months and months as it spreads through classes at school.
IDK if it made sense, but it was legit a thing that people were doing.
Of course, there's a vaccine now, so if you're still doing this you're one of the aformentioned braindead dumbfucks.
Just a small akshually : Viruses cant be dead or alive because the have no metabolism anyway so most (modern) vaccines work by extracting their mrna or the lipids on their surface and injecting that. Injecting a small portion of whole viruses my still infect you. Fyi
Edit: ok I talked some garbage here: while viruses do not have a metabolism and thereby are, by the definition of some, not alive, there is apparently a way to make vaccines by destroying the genome of the virus via heat or chemicals and using the "shells" to make vaccines..
Source (disclosure: website owned by vaccine producer) here
mRNA vaccines are, of course, just the absolute tits - but they're a tiny proportion of modern vaccines and the very first ones are one a few years old, created to treat COVID. But yeah, 100%, we don't use the virus in the vaccine! Even the first ever vaccine was (as you will know) not created from the disease it was meant to treat, but from one similar enough that it gave protection to the other. And smallpox doesn't exist any more so, well, that worked out pretty well didn't it. You don't give someone the virus to stop them getting that virus, but you might well give them a virus, in an attenuated form of the target
If only there was some way to control measles. Oh well, wishful thinking i guess.
You cannot control freedom freckles.
No offense but fuck Texas
Texas is banning Gender Affirming Care FOR ADULTS, so yeah fuck Texas
Ya know when Conservatives died of Covid in massive numbers because they kept refusing to intentionally antagonize the people fighting Covid and every restriction put in place against it the only thing going through my head was
"I hope enough of them kicked the bucket to make Republicans unelectable so that tragedies like this can't happen again."
Guess what's going through my head now?
I'm sad that it's children paying the price though. They don't have any say in anything. It's child abuse to intentionally infect them with a preventable disease.
And the parents surely won't blame themselves.
This is child abuse.
Pro life starts at conception, pro life ends at birth
Carlin said it best:
"If your prelife, you're fine. If you're preschool, you're fucked!"
And:
"Conservatives like live babies because they grow up to be dead soldiers."
Republicans are right into that
Woah, it really is the 1980s again. Time to get some cocaine I guess.
According to RFK, measle outbreaks are normal. Religion and bleach will save Deregulated Texas and if the shit spreads, the USA too.
rfk jr brains just all worms controlling the body, hes just a husk.
Try and control those rabidly ignorant bigots you force-fed with anti-science, anti-reason raw red meat, let's see how that goes.
This is 'Murica! Muh freehdum!
Fuck Texas, its politicians and its stupid parents.
Texas... warns AGAINST something dumb?
Genuine surprise over here.
Twenty thousand tons of ivermectin to Texas. Stat! That'll fix everything!
JFC The idiot parents are doing this to their kids. I just can't anymore.
JFC
Close but its more of a RFK sorta thing (really just as much of an exclamation)
Naaah… I say we let those morons measel the ever-loving shit out of one another. But let them do it on an island somewhere in the middle of the Sea of Tranquility.
Olympus mons, if elon has anything to do with it. They can all take a one way trip.
Way too many entries for the Darwin Awards this year
theres a subreddit called hermain cain, i think that started to include this measles epidemic.
And here I thought the pandemic craziness was an outlier
Stupid is as stupid does.
Not getting sick is what BIG PHARMA wants you to do!
Yeah, it's big brain time.
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