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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Let’s take measles, for example. It’s a virtually harmless childhood disease.

Stopped right there. This person is clueless.

2 posted on 08/18/2025 11:37:48 AM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

We have people like you to thank for the Covid lockdown and the “vaccine” that didn’t prevent the disease but deliberately caused catastrophic side effects.


3 posted on 08/18/2025 11:40:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Tuberculosis is treatable. It just takes a while and you have to stay on the protocol drugs. I agree that the article is questionable.


6 posted on 08/18/2025 11:46:33 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

“Stopped right there. This person is clueless.”

Agreed. From Wikipedia:

Between 1987 and 2000, the case fatality rate across the United States was three deaths per 1,000 cases attributable to measles, or 0.3%.[37] In underdeveloped nations with high rates of malnutrition and poor healthcare, fatality rates have been as high as 28%.[37] In immunocompromised persons (e.g., people with AIDS) the fatality rate is approximately 30%.[38]

Even in previously healthy children, measles can cause serious illness requiring hospitalization.[34] One out of every 1,000 measles cases progresses to acute encephalitis, which often results in permanent brain damage.[34] One to three out of every 1,000 children who become infected with measles will die from respiratory and neurological complications.[34]

When I was growing up, I had a neighbor who contracted measles in the early 1950s at seven years old. The measles virus caused acute encephalitis, which resulted in a lifelong mental disability.


10 posted on 08/18/2025 11:57:05 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

And it was chicken pox parties, not measles parties. Parents did not intentionally expose their kids to measles. I went to school with a boy who was permanently deaf from measles.


13 posted on 08/18/2025 12:06:52 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

“Stopped right there. This person is clueless.”

Yes, And...

“When I was a child, whenever any of our friends got the measles, it was time for a slumber party. All the kids who weren’t immune from previous outbreaks got the measles, and stayed home from school for a few days.”

That was CHICKEN POX not the Measles.


14 posted on 08/18/2025 1:01:13 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Well its not harmless.I had both types and the German measles I had to be kept in a dimly lit room with the curtains drawn. But everyone I knew got the measles and nobody died that I know of. My best friend was an only child and everytime I caught something her Mom sent her over to sit by my bed and play checkers.


15 posted on 08/18/2025 1:13:29 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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