Measles, measles, measles. Why is the measles vaccination even necessary?
Getting over the measles is probably very good for your immune system. Why all the scare tactics about measles? If you get them, you get them. Then recover. Then play. Life goes on.
What’s the big deal?
Why do you insist I get a shot of measles? Live and let live. If you start ordering me to get a steel needle stuck into me or my offspring, there is then the bad karma. It should be a personal choice.
Why do you want to create the bad karma?
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The measles vaccine is necessary because it prepares the immune system for a quick response to measels without actually getting measles. The virus can, and does, kill people.
We insist you get vaccinated because herd immunity protects people who can't get the vaccine and people for whom the vaccine wasn't effective.
There's no "bad karma" for maintaining public health.
"Getting over the measles is probably very good for your immune system."
You know what getting over the measles does for your immune system? It keeps you from getting the measles again. It's kind of like a natural vaccine. With the artificial one, you don't have to get measles first .
Perhaps you should use the same strategy with other diseases. Go catch a bunch of them, and you're good to go.
Perhaps we should start offering these people homeopathic vaccines? Pure water, straight into the bloodstream. Five gallons at a time.
"Why is the measles vaccination even necessary?"
Because measles is a very serious disease, dumbshit, much more so than chickenpox (which can be serious in some people, especially adults).
If your refusal to vaccinate put only your life at risk, we'd be happy to let you kill yourself if that's what you want, but instead, you put OTHER PEOPLE at risk.
"Getting over the measles is probably very good for your immune system. Why all the scare tactics about measles? If you get them, you get them. Then recover. Then play. Life goes on. "
Prove it. Deliberately infect yourself with the measels from someone already suffering from it, then explain how it's just a disease to be tolerated, akin to a common cold. The many dead would be keen to know this.
Measles, measles, measles. Why is the measles vaccination even necessary?
You just answered your own question.
"Getting over the measles is probably very good for your immune system"
OTOH not getting over measles is probably very bad for your immune system. As well as all your other systems, because you'll be dead.
Fuck all the anti vaxxers... I had measles when i was about 9 or 10, because my parents thought a vaccination against it was unnecessary (luckily, I was vaccinated against most other stuff, go figure.) It was fucking terrible, and I could have died from it.
I think people confuse measles with the chicken pox a lot... it's much worse. You get those weird dots on your skin for a day or two, but that doesn't do much. But you're actually really fucking sick for two to four weeks. I basically couldn't do anything for four weeks, constant fever and pain, felt like shit and wanted to die, had the doctor visit every other day to check up on me, and it took weeks and weeks afterwards until I had regained my condition from before.
From Wikipedia, bolding mine:
Measles affects about 20 million people a year,[1] primarily in the developing areas of Africa and Asia.[4] It causes the most vaccine-preventable deaths of any disease .[8] It resulted in about 96,000 deaths in 2013 , down from 545,000 deaths in 1990 .[9] In 1980, the disease is estimated to have caused 2.6 million deaths per year .[4] Before immunization in the United States between three and four million cases occurred each year.[6] Most of those who are infected and who die are less than five years old.[4] The risk of death among those infected is usually 0.2%,[6] but may be up to 10% in those who have malnutrition.[4]
Not very much Life goes on“, is it? So fuck you, Measles.
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