Sheril KirshenbaumPSA: Do not have “measles parties.”
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/02/texas-official-warns-against-measles-parties-as-outbreak-keeps-growing/ #health #science
AndyReRe@Sheril actually PLEASE do, the gene pool thanks you.
Peter Skov Larsen ★I had the measles when I was about 4 years old, and now, 60 years later, I still have a lingering memory of a very unpleasant experience.
It was common practice back then, that when a kid got the measles, a playdate would be arranged for you if you hadn't had them yet. The idea was, that the earlier you got them, the lesser the risk. And *everybody* would get them eventually.
I don't remember it as an epidemic.
But today there is a a vaccine. And parties...jeez!
I think they mostly are. The good old days weren't so good after all.
Cars were less safe, more diseases were incurable, physical work was harder, life expectancy shorter etc.
That's how it was, so nobody questioned it
I concede that other problems with, pollution and ultra-refined foods, for example, are bigger today
There is also a location -based difference. I live in a Scandinavian country, and I think our population's general health is better than it is in the USA