• Possibly linux
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    71 month ago

    Measles is a terrible disease that can easily kill you.

    What was the reason against vaccines again?

  • @[email protected]
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    111 month ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      51 month ago

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

      • tmyakal
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        31 month ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    151 month ago

    A recent episode of The House of Pod podcast included a virologist and an ER doctor (the host is a gastroenterologist) and they talked about measles and the potential lifelong effects that a non-fatal case can cause, like blindness or deafness. They also contrast with the efficacy of the vaccine, the virologist got checked before going to SE Asia and despite her last MMR dose being in the 90s she had enough antibodies that her doctor said she didn’t need a booster. She went on to talk about how while measles has mutated it has not changed to bypass immunity.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      one of the fun things virus love to do is give people meningitis, and encephalitis, its more common then people think. chickenpox(and also shingles),mumps,rubella all can do this too.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 month ago

      That’s what the media cycles misses. There’s been no better time in history to be a rich uninformed idiot. History will look back on this as the golden age of the rich idiot

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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!

    • @[email protected]
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      451 month ago

      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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        For real, I thought he was going to name something of actual consequence even if it wasn’t true like, “it makes your head explode.” But, “it wanes”??? Uh ok, it wanes so some people might get measles anyway. Isn’t that just problem solved then since you think infection is good? Completely nonsensical.

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

  • halyk.the.red
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    51 month ago

    The republican party has some major interest in spreading measles. They may be getting financial kickback from healthcare organizations to ensure more people end up in hospitals, driving up medical debt. Or they’re devils in human form. It’s hard to tell.

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      wouldnt it contradict insurance, since they dont want to payout for a patients healthcare, so they would support vaccinations because then they do not actually spend insurance money on someone thats in a hospital. kaiser does this, they are all in on prevention methods over actual services. the ones that would benefit would be pharmceutical charging for thier lifesave drugs.

      • halyk.the.red
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        11 month ago

        They don’t want to payout for patients, so they deny paying for treatments, and they keep taking people’s monthly payments. Kaiser has the lowest percentage of denials, based on an infographic I saw a few months ago. Insurance is a scam, making profits off of people’s poor health, letting them die when costs exceed potential returns. It’s what makes Luigi a hero, doing what none of us could to make life better for the rest of us.

  • FlashMobOfOne
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    191 month ago

    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
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      121 month ago

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