Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist

The MMR vaccine is perfectly safe. Measles is not.

MMR vaccine- studied for more than 50 years. Less than 1 in 1,000,000 chance of allergic reaction. No chance of death or permanent injury. NO evidence of increased risk of autism. 97% effective at preventing infection.

Measles- The most easily transmitted disease ever. It remains airborne for TWO HOURS after an infected person breathes it out. There’s more than a 90% chance of contracting it after exposure. 1 in 5 will require hospitalization. 1 in 500 will die even with hospitalization. And 1 in 500 will develop severe brain damage.

Get the damn vaccine.

Sep 14, 2025 at 3:15amWeb
Show threadBluedepthSep 14, 2025
@drmaddkap Funny enough, when I turned 50 I went to #Meijer and asked if I could have an MMR booster and the pharmacist almost fainted with joy. Five minutes later I had the injection. Insurance paid, if there was a cost at all, and I don’t care that my last injection for MMR was 1983. Let’s refresh that. Another thing Measles can do is immune system amnesia. You get sick and your immune system forgets everything it learned. Hahahaha hard pass. Gimme the shot. Vaccines are self-care.
Show threadPointlessSpikeSep 14, 2025
@Bluedepth @drmaddkap According to this you don't need it unless you had the deactivated version of the vaccine:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/some-adults-may-need-a-measles-booster-shot-who-should-get-one-and-why
But there's no harm in getting it anyway.
Some adults may need a measles booster shot. Who should get one and why? - Harvard Health

Measles vaccines have improved over the years. With the recent measles outbreaks, some adults may benefit from a measles booster shot. Learn who should get one, why it matters, and how to stay prot...

Harvard Health
Show threadrobloblawSep 14, 2025
@PointlessSpike @Bluedepth @drmaddkap
It depends on when and where you had your childhood vaccine. Some of the people who had a single dose vaccination decades ago may not be immune now. Ask your doctor for a measles antibody titer. It's simple to measure if you still have immunity via a blood test.
Show threadJimmySep 14, 2025
@Bluedepth @drmaddkap I should look into that. I've had all three (measles mumps and rubella) as a child, but maybe it's still a good idea. I have had the shingles vaccine, which I assume is for chickenpox.
Show threadJonathan SnyderSep 14, 2025
@Bluedepth @drmaddkap I just discovered HPV (cause I'm in Kentucky and of course they don't want to talk about health stuff) so yesterday I got my first dose of the HPV vaccine and my covid. Flu last week. I'm good to go!
Show threadDr. Maddkap, WerepsychologistSep 14, 2025
@itwasntme223 @Bluedepth Good job! If they won’t share the info with us, we have to go find it ourselves!
Show thread@iveylineSep 14, 2025
@drmaddkap Anti-vaxxers are a threat to everyone.
Show threadGradientU0Sep 14, 2025
@drmaddkap I don't know. Texas kinda deserves it.
Show thread🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑Sep 14, 2025
@GradientU0 @drmaddkap
No children deserve measles, even if their parents are uninformed, misinformed, or just assholes.
Show threadAngela Glansbury 🚽Sep 14, 2025
@GradientU0 @drmaddkap
are you able to explain what specific harm infants from texas have done to you to deserve to die?
Show thread❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️Sep 14, 2025

@drmaddkap

As a small child I lost most of my hearing because of measles--get your children vaccinated!

Hearing impairment leaves folks feeling isolated from everyone.
Imagine a very confusing world without hearing people talking to you., their lips move but you can't hear what they are saying.

Show threadMim54Sep 14, 2025
@SnowyCA @drmaddkap my sister was born without eardrums as a result of my mother getting Rubella in her first trimester, religious doctor would not countenance a termination and mother felt guilt for the rest of her life.
Show threadAlison MeeksSep 14, 2025
@SnowyCA @drmaddkap My mother lost a lot of her hearing from measles as well. Along with it went her playing an instrument and much other music.
Show thread❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️Sep 14, 2025

@Alison
I'm sorry that happened. For some of us measles vaccines were not available until later in childhood or as adults, and that's why I find it is so frustrating when I hear of anti-vaxxers risking their children's health,
It's there, available, so use it.

@drmaddkap

Show threadAlison MeeksSep 14, 2025
@SnowyCA Same with my mom. Mom was just out of school during the second war. @drmaddkap
Show thread❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️Sep 14, 2025

@Alison

Yes, Measles vaccine wasn't available in Canada until I think it was around 1963, so she would have missed out. : (

@drmaddkap

Show threadAlison MeeksSep 14, 2025
@SnowyCA Yes I was born in '60 and you can bet the farm she made sure I had all of them.
@drmaddkap
Show thread❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️Sep 14, 2025

@Alison

I am so glad to hear that. : ) @drmaddkap

Show threadAlison MeeksSep 14, 2025
@SnowyCA I'm sorry our mothers had to go through that. I think us seeing that makes it all the more frustrating seeing people intentionally putting their kids as risk for what is preventable. @drmaddkap
Show thread❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️Sep 14, 2025

@Alison My mother was fine as far as I know she didn't catch measles, or it didn't affect her, I was not as fortunate so I made sure my children were vaccinated for everything.

@drmaddkap

Show threadAlison MeeksSep 14, 2025
@SnowyCA Even though many new vax's were on the way I still had chicken pox and mumps and later shingles. @drmaddkap
Show thread❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️Sep 14, 2025
@Alison
Somehow I missed mumps but not others. @drmaddkap
Show threadAlison MeeksSep 14, 2025
@SnowyCA And get this - only had mumps on one side! @drmaddkap
Show thread❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️Sep 14, 2025
@Alison
I've heard of that happening. The human body is weird and unpredictable, eh. @drmaddkap
Show threadAlison MeeksSep 14, 2025
@SnowyCA Can confirm. Mine is real weird. Coffee makes me sleepy, IV sedative for oral surgery had me alert and could have worked if I wasn't disassociating from the horror in my mouth. @drmaddkap
Show thread❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️Sep 14, 2025
@Alison
I've heard some with ADHD have the reverse caffeine effect.@drmaddkap
Show threadAlison MeeksSep 14, 2025
@SnowyCA Not diagnosed but ticking boxes for AuDHD. @drmaddkap
Show threadHTPC NZSep 14, 2025
@drmaddkap yeah get it done with more and more MAGAgots everywhere, never had the MMR vaccine till couple of months ago - hey we originally from "third world" countries don't get the first dibs do we? - and had caught Rubella when young - no side effects with the jab at all - and it was together with the boostrix vaccine as well .
Show threadJenny ListSep 14, 2025

@drmaddkap I'm of the generation just before MMR. It's very shitty, & I don't understand why people do not vaccinate their kids.

All my primary school with around 100 kids got it, sickest I've ever been, 2 weeks off school. Nobody hospitalised or died though.

Where did your 1 in 5 figure come from? That would mean 20 deaths in my school, & I would know a load more .People did die, but it doesn't match my survivor's experience.

Show threadPedro Quixote ‽ aka MultiVaxSep 14, 2025

@JennyList @drmaddkap Ditto. 0.2% not 1 in 5. Can be 1 in 5 from complications arising. Not from the virus itself. However 10% fatality if malnourished.

I'm not an anti-vaxxer. Far from it. Posting misleading information plays into their hands.

Get the damn vaccine for you and your kids.

Show threadpurpletwiglet 🇬🇧 🐾Sep 14, 2025

@JennyList @drmaddkap The rate is very dependent on local conditions.

Somalia almost 40%
Most western countries approx 0.0001%

As of 2020

https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/measles/by-country/

MEASLES DEATH RATE BY COUNTRY

Interactive Charts and Maps that Rank Measles as a Cause of Death for every country in the World.

World Life Expectancy
Show threadJenny ListSep 14, 2025

@purpletwiglet @drmaddkap

I am talking about as of 1975, because that's the experience I am describing.

Show threadgoedelchenSep 14, 2025
@drmaddkap Do you have a source for the 20 % fatality rate for non-hospitalised? The highest fatality rate I read is 10 % for malnourished persons.
Show threadsparseMatrixSep 14, 2025

@drmaddkap

doing the lord's work here, and I'm not even religious.

Show threadMidgePhotoSep 14, 2025
@drmaddkap
There is evidence of absence of association with autism.
Perfectly is a word I tend to avoid, saying extremely, very very very, and suchlike. Far far safer than risking the disease even when not surrounded by malign interference and the immunised.
Show threadSpace HoboSep 14, 2025
@drmaddkap The thing that I wish people burbling about "natural immunity" would learn about Measles is that IT ERASES MOST OF YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM'S MEMORY. That alone should be the "wake up: you're being bilked by conmen" fact to end it all.
Show threadPxl PhileSep 14, 2025
@drmaddkap I mean we are at mastodon, isn't that like preaching to the choir? 😅💉🦠🚫
Show threadDr. Maddkap, WerepsychologistSep 14, 2025
@ppxl True. But the more info we share, the more we can give to other people.
Show threadAnneTheWriterSep 14, 2025

@drmaddkap
I remember the Measles. I remember how my mom worried that when I grew up and got pregnant, I might get exposed to it. (At the time, she could not imagine a world without the Measles.)

When a pregnant woman (even a vaccinated one, I'm told) is exposed to Measles, her unborn baby has a good chance of having birth defects, such as deafness. (Interestingly, the #CDC webpage that I am sure used to talk about that, now says "Page Not Found".🤔)

When the #Measles #vaccines began, rates of babies being born deaf plummeted.

If the Pro-Lifers really want to "protect unborn babies," tell them they can #GetVaccinated .

#VaccinesWork #VaccinesAreSafe

#MMRvaccine #MMRvaccinesafety #Deafness #BirthDefects #VaccineSafety #Antivaxxers #AntivaxxerMisinformation #RFKjrIsDangerous

Show threadHungry Lucario (HL)Sep 14, 2025
I had the measles when I was 1 year old. My mom said I was in the hospital over it.
Show threadFurbland's Very Cool Mastodon™Sep 14, 2025
@drmaddkap
> increased chance of autism
idk that sounds pretty cool to me
Show threadSnapai Sep 15, 2025

@drmaddkap isn't measles the one that erases your immune memory, so that then you can contract everything else you'd lived through or been vaccinated against, too?

When they started giving out MMR shots, the deaths from everything else ALSO fell, because immunity had a higher chance of staying persistent.