Oddbean new post about login | logout @30ce86c6 Take it from me, a kid before there was a measles vaccine. I spent a miserable week in bed with the window shades down. Not fun and I was lucky not to get really sick--or die. I remember the relief when a vaccine against polio was finally developed. I remember the relief when we got rid of smallpox--what an achievement! Read some history, people, and protect your kids. And be glad you can.
@453ca0c7 yup I got measles as a kid and then for next few years caught every single thing going as had nuked my immune system - I hate those anti vax fuckers
@453ca0c7 as a result of catching measles I spent the next five years in and out of the children's hospital with much of that time in an oxygen tent
@453ca0c7 @30ce86c6 I came down with measles when a kid and it was very unpleasant. I didn't know about SSPE then. https://blotreport.com/2017/03/05/lets-kill-children/
@453ca0c7 @30ce86c6 When we were babies, we got vaccinated against diptheria, whooping cough and tetanus. A bit older, polio and measles. Anybody complaining about covid vaccines - like being a 'pure blood' for not having had a covid shot - is just being silly. j And, as an #ActuallyAutistic person, I have to say - they don't cause it. 200 genes say it's not caused by the jab.
@fb6393a7 @453ca0c7 @30ce86c6 100% agree. But: Polio vaccine removed polio from the developed world. Covid vaccines are "better than nothing". I caught Covid twice, each time < 5 months after the last shot. Caring for a sick child is just too much virus load. And I retained permanent damage from the first infection, so it does only statistically protect you from bad outcomes. Yes, everyone ought to get their shots. But it's not the 10-years-full-immunity vaccine we hoped for. Mask up!
@453ca0c7 @30ce86c6 I do wonder how fast the antivaxers would scream for the smallpox vaccine should there ever be a release or outbreak 🤨🤷♂️ There stupidity only fails to go horribly wrong because of those who came before them doing hard work.
@453ca0c7 @30ce86c6 My experience was the same. Dad walked for miles to find a phone box that was working to phone the doctor. The disease ended up ruining my eyesight but did prompt Dad to get a phone line installed. My brother, who's a lot older, nearly died of whooping cough and Mum was so grateful the vaccine had been invented by the time I came along. I hate that people are now taking these vaccines for granted and there is so much anti Vax propaganda being spread about.