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> "It used to be, when I were a kid, that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection"

I suppose the kids who were hospitalized and died did, technically, gain "lifetime protection from measles"!

If "natural" inoculation was that effective and that safe, you know hwat? The disease would already be extinct generations ago, and we wouldn't be having these discussions. If anything, crazy folks like this are helping a disease we almost had practically eradicated.

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Additionally:

This is even worse from a personal-liberty perspective, because even if it were as safe as vaccines (it isn't) to be effective you would need to force/compel/entice even more people into partiicpating, since it's actually increasing the number of infectious sources and routes in the short-term.

Even for kids not hospitalized/dead, measles damages and kinda-resets the immune system, meaning they become vulnerable to injury/death from other diseases even after you thought they were safe.

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P.S.: For the more numerically-inclined, suppose RFK's plan is that all children are given "natural" measles at a certain age. There are ~4 million six-year-olds in the USA.

With a death rate of 0.3%, that means 12,000 dead children every single year to satisfy this guy's conspiracy-theories about vaccines.

That doesn't include the ones who die later from other diseases because measles has damaged their immune-system, or the ones who survive with brain damage.

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so

> It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’

was basically a lie. He did not say that.

I'm pro vax and think RFK is an idiot but also believe in not lying. It's kind of annoying. And counter productive.

I mean you trying to save lives by countering misinformation and then your own side starts putting out misinformation hence somewhat legitimising the whole mess.