Leopards Ate My Face

You see, the reason you didn't know was because we had eradicated it before you morons decided you were smarter than the entire science and medical community because you watched some youtube videos

NO SHIT ITS NOT A MILD INFECTION.

The entire world came together to eradicate a disease that we knew could not only debilitate but kill.

We spent years to formulate a preventative treatment that allows our bodies to survive infections, but some looneytunes sounding twat decides that vaccines are the devil and now that very same disease has open and unprotected vectors to be spread through.

Antivax parents are the worst kind of stupid - well intentioned stupid. And children are paying the price. Some of those parents even refuse to change their stance because the cognitive dissonance of admitting they were wrong about their beliefs is worse to them than the knowledge that they tortured and possibly killed their and others' children. These people need to be committed.

Edit, typo

Isn't measles considered bad because it's INSANELY contagious? Like covid made immunologisys freak out because the infection rate was over 2? Measles is like 12 or 18.

Lingers in the air for hours too... Good luck american morons and their neighbours...

Should be a law if you don't trust science to get vaccinated, you can't use hospital resources when you're sick. Do your research and figure it out.

And they kept on telling me they wish they'd known beforehand how bad measles was, so that they could have protected their family

We've been trying to tell you, but you stuck your fingers in your ears and insisted you knew better. And once you're over the measles, instead of using this newly-acquired realization to revisit some of your positions, you'll stick your fingers right back in your ears and refuse to listen to us about anything else you're wrong about. So enjoy your measles, and all of the diseases you're going to catch again because measles reset your immune system, and I fucking hope you get shingles.

I fucking wonder why there was such a concerted effort to create a :: checks my notes:: fucking vaccine!!!

A society that doesn't know how to pass common knowledge from generation to generation is doomed.

Antivaxxers should love measles because there’s a chance it can completely wipe out your immune system which is like a human factory reset.

Measles is worse than the actual illness, which bad and kills. It resets the immune system so the immunity that is built up over a lifetime is lost. Definitely don’t get it as an adult.

At what point should other countries ban travel from the US?

Translation: " boy, are we STUPID"

Darwin fish > Jesus fish again.

How could that have happened? That is SO strange that Obama would do this.

If only there was some way to protect yourself. /s

Had to take my toddler to the ER last Sunday to rule out a TBI (stumbled into the wall, was fine but then vomited later; no TBI, but did have several days of a stomach bug!), and there are signs up in the hospital to watch for symptoms of measles. Both of my kids are on schedule with all vaccines, all the same I was wondering if we really needed to be there 😬

It was the fuck aroundest of times It was the find outest of times

"Most people survive measles, though in some cases, complications may occur. About 1 in 4 individuals will be hospitalized and 1–2 in 1,000 will die. Complications are more likely in children under age 5, adults over age 20, and pregnant people.Pneumonia is the most common. Most people survive measles, though in some cases, complications may occur. About 1 in 4 individuals will be hospitalized and 1–2 in 1,000 will die. Complications are more likely in children under age 5, adults over age 20, and pregnant people. Pneumonia is the most common fatal complication of measles infection and accounts for 56–86% of measles-related deaths.

“Possible consequences of measles virus infection include laryngotracheobronchitis, sensorineural hearing loss, and—in about 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 300,000 cases—panencephalitis, which is usually fatal. Acute measles encephalitis is another serious risk of measles virus infection. It typically occurs two days to one week after the measles rash breaks out and begins with very high fever, severe headache, convulsions and altered mentation. A person with measles encephalitis may become comatose, and death or brain injury may occur.

“For people having had measles, it is rare to ever have a symptomatic reinfection.

“The measles virus can deplete previously acquired immune memory by killing cells that make antibodies, and thus weakens the immune system, which can cause deaths from other diseases. Suppression of the immune system by measles lasts about two years and has been epidemiologically implicated in up to 90% of childhood deaths in third world countries, and historically may have caused rather more deaths in the United States, the UK and Denmark than were directly caused by measles. Although the measles vaccine contains an attenuated strain, it does not deplete immune memory.”

—Wikipedia

Zero sympathy.

RFK Jr. and all the antivaxxers need a Nuremberg-style trial...

I thought chiropractors and ivermectin were a miracle cure. Whattup with that, MAGAs? You lot shouldn't be sick, yeah?

I had measles as a kid in the 80s, either before I was old enough for the vax or a breakthrough case, unclear which as idk the recommended schedules from the 80s. I was in the hospital for weeks. I take vaccination very seriously, get every single one I can, and was quite pleased to have gotten all my childhood vaccinations a second time as an adult, just to be absolutely sure (my records went missing and it was required for my job).

Record it and make it a PSA. “The more you know”

Erases your fucking immune system essentially and can leaf to a brain infection that kills. Go read about Roald Dahl's daughter. Bad guy, but a horrible fate for that innocent girl.