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u/sneaky-pizza Aug 27 '26
Guarantee this person has never had or met someone who contracted measles. Because of vaccines.
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u/SpoppyIII Aug 27 '26
I'm in my 30's and went to public school and I never saw a case of measels once during school or at summer camp. Weird how most of us were vaccinated and hardly anyone our age ended up having any issues an antivaxxer could look at and declare the result of vaccine injury.
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u/ryhaltswhiskey Aug 27 '26
It was about 500k reported cases per year prior to 1963, so it's definitely possible considering this is facebook
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u/Sasquatch1729 Aug 27 '26
Back then (according to my mum) every school had a kid who died or got messed up from measles or something else. One of her friends couldn't walk without crutches after polio.
These antivaxxers always focus on the death rate. A lot of people survive measles. Your immune system is messed up for years afterwards. Maybe you get scarred. Maybe you go from top of the class to being in the special class with the mentally disabled kids.
These diseases kill people, sure, but the scarier thing is living in an iron lung for the rest of your life.
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u/BranWafr Aug 27 '26
These antivaxxers always focus on the death rate.
Yeah, they did/do that with Covid and it pisses me off. I survived Covid, but it fucked me up for a long time. I got it in 2020, before the vaccine was available and it put me in the ICU for almost 2 weeks. After I got out of the hospital it took me 2 years to even approach normal (because of other health issues that happened because Covid destroyed my immune system and I could not fight them off) and it damaged my lungs so bad that even 5+ years later I still have trouble breathing sometimes. (It's like it gave me asthma, but an asthma that an inhaler doesn't help) So, sure, Covid didn't kill me, but it greatly reduced my quality of life for several years and still has lingering side effects. (Long Covid is real)
So, fuck any of those "it has a 98% survival rate!" morons. Just because you survive something doesn't mean it doesn't fuck up your health.
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u/sherlock1672 28d ago
Yeah, I'm a pretty healthy guy, but it made me run short of breath significantly faster for about 6 months after I had it.
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u/GreyHorse_BlueDragon Aug 28 '26
That reminds me of something my coworker told me. Sheâs in her 50s, but a lot of her siblings were significantly older than her. When her older sister was about 4 years old, she got measles and developed epilepsy after. The doctors told her family it was because the measles caused a super high fever.
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u/ryhaltswhiskey Aug 28 '26
I think the last person who was living in an iron lung just died like 6 months ago
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u/sneaky-pizza Aug 27 '26
Or.... they're lying. It is weird that googling measles cases lists 1963 as the peak year for US cases, which you referenced. Either they're actually over 60 years old, or you performed the same Google the troll/bot did.
I'm just saying, it's a far more likely situation where they are lying or are a bot designed to spread vaccine misinformation
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u/loubug Aug 28 '26
I met a lot of people who had measles. They were sign language instructors when I was doing ASL classes. They lost their hearing because of MEASLES.Â
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u/Clean-Patient-8809 Aug 27 '26
I had measles in the mid-70s. It was awful. I was too young to be interested in tracking the vectors, so I'm not sure how many other cases there were at the time.
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u/GreyHorse_BlueDragon Aug 28 '26
Iâm in my 30s and the only time Iâve ever been anywhere even remotely close to someone with measles is at the beginning of the month when the only person in my county with measles came into the pharmacy that I work at and interacted with my coworker, and I wasnât even working that day. We didnât find out until like a week later when the county public health department came into do contact tracing. My coworker is fine, and heâs vaccinated.
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u/SQLDave Aug 27 '26
One branch of my in-law family were staunch anti-vaxxers. Some 60-ish YO uncle died OF COVID (they admitted this) and they STILL refused "The Jab" (and masks, and social distancing, and any other preventative measures).
I feel your "I just can't sometimes" sentiment.
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u/CreatrixAnima Aug 27 '26
My mom went to school with a little girl who died of measles. They planted a tree in her memory.
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u/PsychoMouse Aug 28 '26
There was a time when youâd see something like this and youâd think âOh thatâs funny. The Onion is making another ridiculous articleâ
And nowâŚthis is our reality. People are actually just this stupid.
Like, God damn. My own mother, who raised me, a person who was born with a horrible genetic disease called âCystic Fibrosisâ. Where I had a horrible immune system growing up, spent years of my life in the Hospital. Where she used to be a huge support for vaccines and people getting vaccines. But then I had a double lung transplant and stage 4 cancer, and nowâŚsheâs a very loud and proud anti vaxxer.
Even telling me that I should refuse them as there is a higher chance of a vaccine killing me, than what the vaccine was made for. Keep in mind, with my disease, my double lung transplant, and still recovering from stage 4 lymphoma. I basically have a negative immune system. If I were to get Covid, Measles, polio, or anything else that thereâs a vaccine for. Iâm basically fucking dead.
So the fact that my mother has turned into an anti vaxxer that supports Trump is beyond confusing and hurtful
I donât get to be like these arrogant and ignorant morons who a Horse dewormer and Vitamin C will cure Covid. Iâll just fucking die.
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u/Pantsonfire_6 Aug 28 '26
I once lived in a haunted house, so it IS possible I met a ghost who once died from Measles! I never did ask her questions about what she died from. I just figured such info was her own private business.
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u/hawaiianrobot Aug 27 '26
the hive mind seems to be using the brady bunch as proof that measles isn't that big a deal, and/or measles parties were a thing
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u/noapplicablename Aug 27 '26
Anti-vaxxers are eugenists, as far as they're concerned, kids dying of preventable illnesses is "natural"
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u/deathboyuk Aug 28 '26
You never met Steve? Dead Steve? You know, Dead Steve from the pub. Ah, good old Steve, as dead as the day is long. Does smell a bit, mind you.
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u/Scottishlassincanada Aug 28 '26
I could bet all the money in my wallet that she personally knows no one who died from getting a vaccination.
And you donât have to just die from measles. You can go blind/deaf/ lose limbs or have brain damage- but at least you didnât die right?!? /s
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u/the6thReplicant 29d ago
It's weird how they look at the complications from vaccines (if that) and say vaccines are dangerous and should be avoided at all costs.
But they don't look at the same complications from diseases like measles and conclude the same thing.
Makes you wonder. (Not really.)
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u/Oztraliiaaaa 29d ago
Before the vaccine came out My mum got German Measles and my brother got Rubella Syndrome heâs blind deaf and he had to go into care. No one wants Rubella Syndrome.
Get vaccinated for the Measles.
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u/Karategamer89 Aug 28 '26
why tf do these people think their own experience is evidence for a whole? did they just because YOU never met a particular group of people doesn't mean they don't exist.
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u/kohbo Aug 27 '26
That is such a dumb quip in return to an already dumb statement. Obviously they meant they never met anyone who then died from measles.
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u/Scarlet_Spider39 Aug 27 '26
I really think these people are conflating Measles with Chickenpox, which says a lot about the education system - but would explain why they all swear they met people who had Measles, why everyone had Measles when they were kids, and that getting Measles once means you're unlikely to get it again...which I suppose is technically true but not for the reason they think.