rwww80a Loc: Hampton, NH

Measles can lead to hearing loss or deafness. Always has, that's why a vaccine was developed.

RKastner Loc: Davenport, FL

I remember staying home from school with the measles and playing with the neighbor kids when they got home from school.

Mr. SONY Loc: LI, NY

Me too.
All I remember was the red bumps all over me.
But that was it.

druthven

As recipients of the Darwin awards the anti-vaxers will eventually be weeded out.

halraiser

There are risks either way, vaccinated or not vaccinated. That was most apparent with the covid vaccines rushed to market. It is useful to consider two types of risk:

Alpha (sometimes called type one) risk is the risk that you do something and it causes a problem, eg. the vaccine has bad side effects.

Beta (sometimes called type two) risk is that by not doing something, you forego the benefits that would have come from it, eg. immunity to covid.

We should consider both types of risk in all major decisions, including vaccination

Capn_Dave

Thank you. There is nothing to stop them from being vetted in any way

Klickitatdave Loc: Seattle Washington

Maybe they should start a telethon to raise money for research into how to cure or at least mitigate stupid. Stupidity appears to have reached the level of being a full fledged epidemic.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

hahaha...
You're absolutely correct!!!
So why don't they?
They don't care to do so.

carlberg

carlberg

My reply was lost in transmission.

Most if not all the polio infections with the Salk Vaccine were caused by a manufacturing error in one batch and had nothing to do with the fact it was an enormously effective vaccine. And the most successful Covid vaccines were based on an mRNA injection, not a spike protein injection.

ruzbynik Loc: Victoria BC

MRNA or otherwise, you still end up with a big load of spike protein in excess of what an actual virus infection would cause. Before the "safe and effective" promotion weren't spike proteins were regarded as pathogenic?

Silversleuth Loc: San Francisco Bay Area

The spike proteins are ANTIGENIC, not Pathogenic. you need the replicating portion of the virus for pathogenicity.

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

One must remember that some people are very sensitive to medications and vaccines. Early on in the Covid epidemic, I got vaccinated with the one that required two injections. That was before I got my heart valve replaced and my son insisted that I get the shot. I had absolutely no side effects whatsoever. About the same time my biking buddy got the same vaccine and had body aches and a low grade fever for three days and spent one entire day in bed.

I haven’t taken a lot of different medications, but I’ve never had any reaction. Other people have bad reactions to medications, slightly bad food and other stuff. My kids and friends joke about my cast iron stomach because I can eat some pretty bad stuff with no ill effects. I’m no Superman but that’s just the way I am, just like my mom. Stuff never bothered her while just about anything would upset my dad’s stomach.

I guess what I’m saying is that I’m sure some vaccines or medications have no ill effects on the majority of people but there will always be a few individuals that could even die from the same ones bc

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

Most people don’t know the great struggle that enveloped our country. President FDR was stricken with polio. He was very careful and struggled to keep it secret. He inwardly felt that people would believe him to be able to hold office. The country was fearful of people with disabilities. The desk in the Oval Office had an opening below which he had covered to hide his leg braces. That same desk appears in another photograph with President JFK and his son.

An interesting book about FDR is titled, “The Man He Became,” by James Tobin. It almost pinpoints the date and location he contracted Polio.

Tote1940 Loc: Dallas

Measles is probably the most infectious disease. Among non vaccinated never infected expect 100% will get , an small percent severe a few fatal
Before vaccine, my case, it was one of the almost unavoidable chilhood illness (5 of them if I recall ) killed and maimed more kids than Mumps, Diphteria also bad killing by chocking and heart damage.
Vaccine ( my children received 60’s) was so effective that it almost dissapeared.
With Covid many children fell behind in vaccination schedules and ignorance epidemic triggered by anti Covid hysteria allowed more mothers to skip vaccines.
So nature takes over and we have Measales again.
Do not confuse with German measeles a much more benign disease in children but birth defects in pregnant ladies
Whether we like it or not we need vaccines for different purposes protect individual and protect community, the latter like removing brush and dry leaves between trees to prevent forest fires

All we do in life and Medicine has risks, no medicine or vaccine is free of side effects but they must be compared with risk of not doing something
I have had patients killed in traffic on way to my office or dialysis unit. Should everyone stop seeing physician or getting treatments for fear of accidents on the way ti?