Nat Oleander

Evidence suggests that measles immunity fades about 10-15 years after vaccination. If it's been more than 10 years since your MMR, or you can't find the latest record of vaccination, update your shot.

And WEAR A MASK. Measles is one of the most contagious diseases of all time. There is NO reason to expose yourself when a KN95/N95 mask offers so much protection.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8189124

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/28/nx-s1-5312088/measles-texas-outbreak-contagious-spread

#measles #mmr #vaccines #maskup #epidemic

Long-term immunogenicity after measles vaccine vs. wild infection: an Italian retrospective cohort study

The persistence of specific IgG after measles infection and after measles vaccination has not been sufficiently investigated. Current evidence suggests that immunity after the disease is life-long, whereas the response after two doses of ...

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Show threadNat OleanderMar 2, 2025

I ***cannot stress enough*** that as the public health infrastructure of the US is toppled, we MUST take what we learned from the COVID pandemic and implement safety and support measures.

*Regular vaccination
*High-quality masks (require at all events)
*HEPA filtration
*Meet outdoors if possible
*PCR-like testing (such as PlusLife)
*Social distancing
*Mutual aid
*Systems of care so that sick people can stay home

Show threadNat OleanderMar 2, 2025

Most critically:

Center disabled and immunocompromised people so that they can participate in society and have their needs met.

It wasn't until I got pregnant that I truly FELT the terror of being a high-risk person who society had left behind—a person who nobody cared about, carrying another person who nobody cared about.

We are essentially still in quarantine because we do not plan to expose our 6-month-old to COVID (or avian flu, measles, etc) any more than we absolutely have to.

Show threadNat OleanderMar 2, 2025

As a collective, when we decided that vaccination was enough to drop mask mandates and other essential safety measures—even though there were people who can't get vaccinated, and even though the vaccine does not stop transmission or illness entirely—we said a big "fuck you" to every high-risk person. The oldest, the youngest, the sickest, the weakest.

That dehumanization is a form of eugenics.

It is DIRECTLY LINKED to the global rise of fascism.

Show threadNat OleanderMar 2, 2025

Wear a mask, get your boosters EVERY YEAR and all other shots on a recommended schedule, require masks and vaccines at any event you run, make your spaces accessible, revisit safety protocols, and stop discarding human lives then being surprised when other people discard human lives.

Be the change. Don't practice eugenics. Don't uphold fascist ideology because "the scientists said it was fine." They did not. The politicians said it was fine and we NEVER should have listened.

Show threadcultdevMar 4, 2025

@nat it wasn’t a societal failure, though, it was a failure of government and capitalism. the biden admin set the tone with that reckless “vax and relax” back-to-normal campaign, which big pharma either didn’t care to correct or actively stoked by lying to the white house about the vaccine’s efficacy (all involved were being dangerously unrealistic either way)

in terms of people management at a societal scale, there is really no coming back from a lie and/or blunder that huge

Show threadnevMar 3, 2025
@nat somewhat doomy, but: i feel like access to vaccines may become less reliable. luckily everything else on the list is something ordinary people can control.