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[–] SaltyBarDog@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago
[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 46 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Rest of the world should ban Americans from coming in. Who knows what kinds of diseases they might be carrying.

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My local blood bank already wanted to know about any possible contact I might have had with Americans.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I remember when we weren't a developing country

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

underdeveloped country.

[–] lostoncalantha@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Unvaccinated and the idiots won’t even wear masks either

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Or parasites

The worm is driving

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I really hate that this motherfucker gets government-funded health care now, because every nasty-ass virus he gets is not only going to be well-treated, but actively buried.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

I'm sure he had bonkers good healthcare before anyway. His name is Robert Fucking Kennedy Jr..

[–] FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee 12 points 6 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.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

God I can't wait for this season of South Park

[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

what a jackass

[–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lol, he's right. I got measles, or... at least, an attenuated version from the FFUKCING MMR VVAccine, you dolt!

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago

hes an expert he made sure samoa got measles, and got 86children killed by it.

[–] BookSnob@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It would be great if he would just fall off a cliff.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

his worms will keep him alive though, his body is a just a empty husk, hollowed about the worms.

[–] tmyakal@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

He's just Mister Oogie-Boogie from Nightmare Before Christmas at this point.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 216 points 1 week ago (13 children)

What if you take the measles virus, weaken it and infect people with that?

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 97 points 1 week ago (5 children)

OMG, that's an awesome idea! Someone should try that!

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[–] Metostopholes@midwest.social 99 points 1 week ago (11 children)

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.

[–] FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

They do try to destroy the country in every possible way. At this point they just want to make sure it’s really dead.

[–] formergijoe@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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!"

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I did not know that and thinking of that stuff like this is possible is fucking scary.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 86 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

“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!

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

MTG pulled this stupid shit promoting "measles parties". For the younger folks, let me explain.

Parents used to deliberately infect their kids with chicken pox. No big deal for litte 'uns, big deal when you're older. (Got it at 16, still have the scars 40-years later. And yes, I'm up on my shingles vaccine.)

These people are so dumb they're conflating chicken pox and measles. Fuck me, I'm just now learning about measles because that shit was gone when I was a child. It was like polio or smallpox, unheard of.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love how they say shit like "it wanes" as though that's a reason to not get it. Like, just get a fucking booster and you're good.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 50 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce the United States Secretary of Health!

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