flexghost.Mar 12, 2025

Your government is trying to kill you

Here RFK, jr talks about giving everyone measles

“It used to be that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection…The vaccine doesn't do that ... it used to be that very young kids were protected by breast milk."

Before the vaccine was invented in 1963 measles caused and estimated 6 million deaths

Case fatality rates within industrialized populations can be has high as 6%

In malnourished populations, rates can reach 30%

Show thread(((Cindy Weinstein)))Mar 12, 2025

@flexghost

Since RFK is all about the science (hah!), let's give him the measles and see if his immunity is still strong.

Show threadMirishuliMar 12, 2025
@cindyweinstein I am all for that. He’s my age and my lifelong immunity from the case I had at 5 was gone when I had my titre’s checked. I got vaccinated last week. Wonder if RFKJr knows whether he’s still immune?
Show threadJuggling With EggsMar 12, 2025

@MiriShuli @cindyweinstein

The notion that you get better life long immunity to diseases by catching them when young instead of via vaccination is scary…why do the likes of RFK Jr think there was a drive for vaccinations in the first place?

I have hearing loss due to my mum catching Rubella from a kid when she was pregnant with me…I later was vaccinated, but when it came to checking my immunity before I had IVF, I was suprised to hear I had none. GP said this is not unusual.

Show threadLooking for explanations…Mar 12, 2025

@JugglingWithEggs @MiriShuli @cindyweinstein
I really should look into all of this. Like many of my peers, I had measles (moderate), mumps (mild) & chicken pox (mild) when I was a kid. (Yes, I have had the singles vax.) That was a time when some parents deliberately exposed their child to an illness so that the infection occurred at a time when it was “convenient.” (My mother didn’t.) The belief that catching a disease gives you lifelong immunity against it is deeply held. We now know that measles often destroys such immunity against other diseases, & there’s a possibility that Covid does the same, hence the terrible flu & RSV seasons we’ve had recently.

Maybe that “immunity” does occur, but not in everyone, & not always “lifelong”.

Show threadMirishuli

@Susan60 @JugglingWithEggs @cindyweinstein

I had a pretty severe case of the measles. On top of that I had the mumps at the same time. Measles popped out and the mumps were internal to throat, mouth. The measles vax was invented in ‘63. I had them in 65/66. By 68 everyone was being vaxxed. They started giving boosters to college students in the 80’s & 90’s as a precaution. I did a blood test. I was still immune to the mumps and the German measles, but not rubeola.

Mar 12, 2025 at 9:33pmWeb
Show threadLooking for explanations…Mar 12, 2025
@MiriShuli @JugglingWithEggs @cindyweinstein
Oh dear. I think I was pretty sick with measles, at around 4yo. Chicken pox could be awful too. Some kids had them in their throat. I don’t think my sister had measles & was probably vaccinated, being a few years younger. My mum was big on vaccines, having been hospitalised with diphtheria as a kid. All those small gravestones in the older parts of cemeteries are there for a reason. And then there’s all the people who survived, but with lasting disability.