I hope some day we can invent some sort of treatment that could prevent kids from ever getting this disease.
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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Like why don't they just make something that makes the disease not hurt us and then put it in our bodies... Why do they have to have all this lab processed shit that they don't actually know what it does and try to put it in our bodies...
You know what's interesting is that the first real anti-vaxxers started because old vaccines would use pus from an infected cow. Something about it being unholy worship of cow or some nonsense.
Now the anti-vaxx crowd is all crying about synthetics... Can't make anyone happy.
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My God. If only there was some sort of preventative measure they could have taken!
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remember who did this. it's not over.
I guess they are going to need to get a consultation from Brainworms about how to eat right, work out, make sure they have proper septic systems, and get their chakras aligned...
The anti-intellectuals strike again. Working very hard to turn America into a shithole country.
Lost my uncle at the height of covid because he wouldn't get vaccinated, apparently because he thought it was population control not sure how many more kids he was going to have at 70 but there we go. He basically spent too long on nonsense Facebook pages and the inevitable happened, all because some random people online convinced him and they will never be held to account.
Good thing everyone I know is vaccinated.
Vaccines aren’t anywhere near 100% effective, they rely on herd immunity which means enough people have to have the vaccine so the disease can’t get a foothold and goes extinct.
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MOSTLY unvaccinated? How many vaccinated people got the measles?
Vaccines aren't 100% effective, the way they work is mostly through herd immunity, where an epidemic effectively peters out due to lack of viable hosts. Depending on the infectiousness of the pathogen, a +90% vaccination rate is usually enough to keep an infection from breaking through.
herd immunity
What is especially irritating is that the conspiracy theorists latch onto this terminology as "proof" that the "globalists" view you as a herd animal...
Another unfortunate thing is how the term "theory" in a scientific sense is very different from the layperson's use of that word...
Two doses of the measles vaccine are approximately 97% effective at preventing measles. Certainly not 100%, but not too shabby.
Measles to the left me, bird flu to the right me, stuck in the middle of both of them.
Roadkill RFK will be harvesting their dead for food. Allegedly.
Even worse, he'll leave them in Central Park.
The part that sucks in all of this: the children who died didn't choose to not get the vaccine. Their parents did.
Damn, lucky kids. If only the rest of us could get a guiltless exit. (No Im not suicidal)
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They might not die. They might just go blind or dead or have brain damage.
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“It’s not that they’re not educated. It’s just ~~what their belief is~~ they're complete idiots.”
FTFY
Points for no spelling errors.
Measles? Isn't there a vaccine for tha...oh...whoops...
Oopsies.