Measles is an extremely contagious viral illness that spreads through the air when an infected person breathes, coughs, or sneezes. The best way to protect yourself and your family against measles is the safe and effective MMR vaccine.
Measles can cause serious health problems:
1 in 5
unvaccinated individuals who get measles in the U.S. require hospitalization.
1 in 20
children may develop pneumonia, the top cause of measles-related deaths in kids.
1 in 1,000
can experience brain inflammation (encephalitis), leading to seizures, hearing loss, or long-term disability.
1-3 in 1,000
measles cases in the U.S. are fatal.
https://ysph.yale.edu/research/information-sheets/measles/
Yep. To add to that, in the pre-vaccine days, in the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, about 5% of the world’s population died from the flu.
Yet people today, many of whom may be too young to remember the pre-polio vaccines and others, want to throw the baby out with the bath water.
This doesn’t help out the conservative cause.
Does trolling ever get tiresome?
When I was very young a kid gets measles the parents in the neighborhood and/or parents of classmates get together and have a meaasles paarty to get it all over with and attain immunity for all their kids. No one died therefrom. No one was hospitalized. Same with chickenpox though a few as adults got shingles which their docs atributed to childhood chickenpox.