• Metostopholes
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    7810 hours ago

    To illustrate how fucking insane this is:

    Measles has a death rate of 1-2 per 1000 cases. With US population at 340,000,000, that means 340,000 - 680,000 dead. And that’s out of the 85 million people hospitalized, which would be a society destroying situation.

    • @formergijoe
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      449 hours ago

      Not only that but measles can cause immune amnesia! Which is when “the immune system forgets how to fight off infections it successfully dealt with before—and [research] showed that this effect lasts for years!”

    • Tar_Alcaran
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      9 hours ago

      Measles has a death rate of 1-2 per 1000 cases

      Oh, its much worse. That’s the death rate for people who get treated, in a vaccinated population in a modern hospital. In low-income countries (or in, say, places with 85 million hospitalizations) over 20 out of a thousand people die. And in displaced refugee children, it can rocket up to 3 out of every 10 infected children dying.

    • @[email protected]
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      118 hours ago

      And that’s just death, measles also creates life long conditions, some that appear years or decades after. For example the way he speaks, his disease is linked to childhood measles ironically.

      Also another bad thing about makes is that it can reset your immune system, so now other diseases that you didn’t have to be afraid before now can be deadly.

    • @RattlerSix
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      169 hours ago

      Yeah but those statistics are before we discovered horse paste

    • @j4k3
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      19 hours ago

      More or less than taxifs and SS on Ice?