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sybylla

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3. This is just horrible.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Oct 12, 2023, 03:19 PM

Oct 2023

Measles, like COVID, decimates the immune system. This anti-vax insanity is going to have long-term effects.

Children used to die of diseases we don't hear about any more because they had, and survived, a measles infection. Death rates for things like chicken pox, strep, scarlet fever, and more fell precipitously by the end of the last century not just because of better treatments, but because measles wasn't there first to make children more susceptible.

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Yesterday, we saw first case of #measles in #Milwaukee in years [View all] riversedge Oct 2023 OP

The COVID-associated anti-vaxx movement is going to decimate childhood vaccine-prevenable disease hlthe2b Oct 2023 #1

You'll see more now, no doubt. Laffy Kat Oct 2023 #2

This is just horrible. sybylla Oct 2023 #3