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Rest of the world should ban Americans from coming in. Who knows what kinds of diseases they might be carrying.
My local blood bank already wanted to know about any possible contact I might have had with Americans.
I remember when we weren't a developing country
underdeveloped country.
Unvaccinated and the idiots won’t even wear masks either
Or parasites
The worm is driving
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.
what a jackass
It would be great if he would just fall off a cliff.
his worms will keep him alive though, his body is a just a empty husk, hollowed about the worms.
He's just Mister Oogie-Boogie from Nightmare Before Christmas at this point.
What if you take the measles virus, weaken it and infect people with that?
OMG, that's an awesome idea! Someone should try that!
Bobby didn’t invent that first, so he’s not interested. MAGA are not followers, they are leaders! /s
his worms arnt interested.
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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.
They do try to destroy the country in every possible way. At this point they just want to make sure it’s really dead.
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!"
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.
I did not know that and thinking of that stuff like this is possible is fucking scary.
Measles has a death rate of 1-2 per 1000 cases
Oh, its much worse. That's the death rate for people who get treated, in a vaccinated population in a modern hospital. In low-income countries (or in, say, places with 85 million hospitalizations) over 20 out of a thousand people die. And in displaced refugee children, it can rocket up to 3 out of every 10 infected children dying.
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“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!
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.
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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Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce the United States Secretary of Health!
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It would be better if this guy fucks off.
No, what would be better is if that guy got a bad case of my backhand across his mouth every time he opens it.
Okay brainworm, go intentionally get the measles and let us watch you for the next 6 months so we see how safe it is.
he made sure the children of SAMOA got measles, and about 86+ died from it, when he convinced the govt to stop vaccinations.
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