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Measles 1969 vs Measles Today ⭐️
X.com ^ | 11:15 AM · Mar 5, 2025 | G-PA✓ @IndianaGPA

Posted on 03/09/2025 5:03:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

(The Brady Bunch vs Law and Order SVU)


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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Has measles as a kid. Didn't die. Had a kid. But now ---

GET A JAB! In the pharmacy locally there were signs for seven different jabs they were peddling to adults. This adult and his bride have avoided them, and we're doing just fine with Bancel and Bourla and Tedros and all those fine "let us poke you" folks.

21 posted on 03/09/2025 6:48:45 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: lizma2
I parlayed my measles into a "parfait" from the Dairy Queen down the street. Just to seal the deal I folded a hot washcloth and put it on my head so that it would feel warmer when my Mom checked for fever.

I don't remember much about the measles, but that was the best parfait that I ever had!

22 posted on 03/09/2025 7:10:08 PM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Point well taken


23 posted on 03/09/2025 7:22:37 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 )
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To: Raycpa

“Lucky to be alive.”

Me too, I had all of those, and I had Scarlet Fever too. That was the sickest I ever was.

Measles is no joke. The complications, though rare, can be deadly. As we see from current news reports.


24 posted on 03/09/2025 7:32:46 PM PDT by jocon307 (DEMOCRATS DELENDA EST)
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To: jocon307

Can’t measles in older boys and men often make them sterile? It seems they’ve been somewhat successful in messing with women’s reproductive health via “the vax”. Maybe now they’re concentrating on the men.


25 posted on 03/09/2025 7:42:49 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Fuzz
This is how I usually make decisions regarding the health of my family, sitcoms.

We aren't talking about the science. We are talking about the change in attitudes and the absolute hysteria of today compared to when people were normal.

26 posted on 03/09/2025 7:43:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats don't care how corrupt government is, as long as they get a cut of the loot.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Normal? lol


27 posted on 03/09/2025 7:46:19 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s hard to imagine, but yes, there was indeed a time when people were normal. I recall it fondly. What the Hell happened? (Rhetorical question)


28 posted on 03/09/2025 7:50:35 PM PDT by drwoof
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To: rolling_stone

“ Everyone used to get measles. It can be fatal, but yup, the Law and Order approach is hysterical.

they used to have parties for kids to get measles mumps chicken pox....while young...”
I grew up with that, still here and doing well at 72.


29 posted on 03/09/2025 8:00:04 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: Fuzz
Normal? lol

I take it you're not normal?

30 posted on 03/09/2025 8:06:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats don't care how corrupt government is, as long as they get a cut of the loot.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

“Can’t measles in older boys and men often make them sterile?”

I think that’s mumps, not measles.


31 posted on 03/09/2025 8:15:45 PM PDT by jocon307 (DEMOCRATS DELENDA EST)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

‘ I take it you’re not normal?’

I have no idea what that even is in a practical sense. I’ve only seen ‘normal’ used to ridicule people who weren’t just like them.

The thread is about normal as reflected in The Brady Bunch.

A tv show. Actors.

The father was gay and died from hiv. The mother was sleeping with the step son. The oldest daughter was selling her body for drugs.

And we’re supposed to look back on fictional television shows and wistfully look back at the’ normal’ times?

You’re perpetuating a fantasy. Looking back at when you were happier, because you didn’t see the world as it was/is.

Grow up.


32 posted on 03/09/2025 8:54:16 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: jocon307

Oh, I think you’re right.


33 posted on 03/09/2025 8:56:12 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Fuzz

It’s TV show. The episode shows that people didn’t go apesiht over measles before hypochondria became fashionable.


34 posted on 03/09/2025 8:58:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats don't care how corrupt government is, as long as they get a cut of the loot.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

‘ The episode shows that people didn’t go apesiht over measles before hypochondria became fashionable.’

Oy.

Yes. A tv show. A scripted sitcom television show.

That isn’t reality. Warp speed captain!

You know, what we really could learn is to keep an abundant supply of dilithium crystals on hand.


35 posted on 03/09/2025 9:05:21 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Fuzz

Measles was no big deal when I had it. It was expected that everybody would get it. We didn’t go apesiht over it as illustrated in the episode.


36 posted on 03/09/2025 9:06:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats don't care how corrupt government is, as long as they get a cut of the loot.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I had the measles. I think I was out of school for two to three weeks. I don’t remember much about it, but I do remember when I had chicken pox.


37 posted on 03/09/2025 9:23:03 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yes, I had it too. Like everybody.

Once a while, measles came to town and infected everybody, who have not had in before.
Then they disappeared, until there were just enough new, not yet immune, kids. I think, scientists could even estimate the frequency of those epidemics!
In the hypothetical case of Brady Bunch, the older kids would likely had it, before the younger ones were born. But yes, if somebody in the family got it, everybody else got it too, that was given!

Anyway, I do not remember being too sick. just got rash, some fewer and aches. Measles took longer than the usual colds and flu, like 10 days or 2 weeks??

The doctors were also pretty jovial about measles then. “Just something everybody needs to go thru”. Passage to adulthood.
I remember reading something like “in rare cases, serious complications can develop”, but I do not remember anybody getting any complications.

When they started coming up with the vaccine, I remember thinking - why bother?!


38 posted on 03/09/2025 10:06:02 PM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: Georgia Girl 2; Raycpa
Ditto for me and whooping cough. I’m still kicking.

Funny... I'm not seeing any posts here by all the people who didn't survive to tell the tale.

Regards,

39 posted on 03/09/2025 11:21:53 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

I assume there is an age gap about this issue.


40 posted on 03/10/2025 12:03:01 AM PDT by Raycpa
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