Medical care has increased tremendously since the mid-60’s.
Addressing viral or bacterial meningitis with antibiotics, antivirals, and anti-inflammatories, would prevent a lot of cases of blindness and deafness.
I think the actual risk of complications would be far less that it used to be.
Plus, I have never met anyone who went blind or deaf from measles. How many do you know?
See my post before
I know one who went deaf
When I had the measles it was a roaring case. I spent two weeks in a room with the shades drawn
I knew one woman. She went blind but that was way back in the day that she got sick. It was earlier 1900’s; 1920’s thereabouts. I met her in the early 70’s.
I had measels, whooping cough, rubella and mumps growing up. Measles and whooping cough kicked by ass, but everything else was so light they really weren’t noticible. I did not get chicken pox tho. I waited for my chance, because those who got it, got to go to the beach to heal up the sores, and I never got to go.
Today, with the meds and treatments we have, it seems risky to subject one’s self or offspring to the very real dangers of immunizations. Dangers which are pretty much kept off the front page news except for those like Robert Kennedy Jr. Who can give the details of those dangers.
Manufacturers of those immunizations have been sued and won by the litigants.
I’ve received very few immunizations. Yes, my kids were immunized, ignorant me back in the day. But even then it was only a couple of shots for a handfull of diseases compared to what children receive at birth with almost no immune ststem. Still, it only takes one to kill a child.
Healthcare today is disgusting.
Measles is not as benign as some may think. It helped to almost wipe out the native Hawaiians in 1848.
https://www.history.com/news/hawaii-monarchy-downfall-measles-outbreak