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by Confusion 2586 days ago
For measles, herd immunity requires a 95% vaccination rate. So where there are outbreaks they have apparently dropped below that. Would the entire population drop below that, at least 5% of the entire population would get measles. Since a lot more than 0.2% would suffer nasty side effects from measles, I said 1 in 10k, because even if it were 1 in 10k, the country would be better off with more than 95% getting vaccinations.

I thought I could riff on olliej’s obviously sardonic comment, but as you I seem to have miscalculated how the comment is read.