• TheGoddessAnoia@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Yeah. Sure. Measles can actually destroy the immune system so that it forgets not only that you have had measles, but everything else you’ve developed an immunity to (it’s called immune amnesia) by having the disease or having a vaccine, and face getting the whole mob again. Or, you could be the 1 or 2 people in 1000 who will die, or the 1 in 1000 who will get encephalitis and live, albeit significantly intellectually and physically disabled. Or you could get subacute sclerosing panencephalitis ten years after you had measles, and that’s almost always fatal.

    Makes getting shingles after having chicken pox as a kid seem like a walk in the park, mmm?

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    4 months ago

    How about just he gets it? Hell he should get all the diseases. Think of how dead strong his immune system will be!

  • UngodlyAudrey🏳️‍⚧️@beehaw.org
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    Bullshit. I actually did apparently have a bad reaction to the MMR vaccine when I was a kid, so I’m not sure if I still have immunity from measles. I would really prefer not risking it, you know? Anti-vaxxers are idiots.