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[–] A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.com 18 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)
  • 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.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

that's only 1500 or so 9/11s... who cares, right?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 4 hours ago

Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

rfk is a terrorist who wants to use biological weapons.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 17 points 7 hours ago

United States Secretary of Health and Human Services here everybody.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 30 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago

he has worms which wont be affected by measles.

[–] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 hours ago

When measles propaganda from our lizard overlords at "Daily Beast" masks mass-culling programs, trust only medieval-era natural immunity. The only good vaccine is no vaccine.

🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱

[–] brightandshinyobject@lemmy.world 64 points 10 hours ago

We did that, we gave everyone a very mild, usually symptomless, case of the measles. We called it vaccination.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 16 points 8 hours ago

We are in such a crazy timeline.

This is the kind of shit you'd see on some forum. If the forum was moderated, they'd eventually get booted.

When I was debating fucking morons like this, I never suspected that one of these assholes would be put in charge of our fucking health. It's just so insane.

[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 52 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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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[–] Guidy@lemmy.world 23 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Most of them have no moral compass and/or have zero awareness of just how fucking stupid all of them look.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Louis Pasteur is rolling over in his grave.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 33 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

Putin is death

[–] FrChazzz@lemm.ee 5 points 10 hours ago

I’d not considered this before. Damn.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 8 hours ago

dont you mean worms, if everyone can get worms he can control them telepathically like a hive mind.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 5 points 9 hours ago

I wonder if widescale immunity reset could lead to a resurgence of something like polio which we've almost eradicated.

[–] madkins@lemmy.world 18 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

Not supporting this dude, but I watched the whole video and he never once said it would be better if everyone got measles. Maybe I missed it; if so, please correct me. He mentioned a waning effect with the vaccine vs full-blown infection, which I highly doubt is accurate (I'll research it later), but that's a massive stretch to get to the headline. He even recommended vaccines and said they will be available for free to anyone that needs them. I've gotten a little lazy in fact checking left leaning stuff because I always felt it was a little more trustworthy. I'm just starting to wonder how much I've been blindly accepting because it conforms to my biases.

[–] prairiemoonchild@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

Goat comment lmfao

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[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

How to kill a lot of children.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 25 points 14 hours ago

Any sane person already had measles Rob. We were smart enough to get the vaccine.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 53 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Probably hosting measles parties.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 hours ago

At this point I certainly hope they just fucking die. I can't handle this shit anymore.

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[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 hours ago

His brain worm has measles.

[–] chetradley@lemm.ee 13 points 13 hours ago

I fucking can't with the news anymore. Holy shit.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 141 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.

Wouldn't it be great if there was something else that gave you protection against measles infection, without you actually having to have measles? If only ...

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 11 hours ago

Also, factually incorrect. Measles is known to cause immune amnesia, wiping out immunities gained from other infections (and measles).

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 70 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The measles vaccine is literally a weakened version of the measles virus. It’s just an attenuated measles infection that allows your body to build antibodies against it without a full on infection.

This guy should have stayed off the raw meat.

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 68 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

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

Yeah. I wish I could die of a preventable disease. Totally the way I want to go.

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