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skhayfa@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Texas official warns against “measles parties” as outbreak keeps growing

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Texas official warns against “measles parties” as outbreak keeps growing

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skhayfa@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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Twenty people have been hospitalized. Most cases are in children.
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    mortality rate of 3% for unvaccinated kids.

    gonna be a lot of depression-era grieving going on.

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      as always the price is paid by those without a choice

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        truth

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      People focus on mortality too while failing to account for the sorts of lifelong disabilities viruses like these cause when you do survive them. Absolutely sickening.

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        the lifelong disabilities will be awful

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          I don’t want to know that stat butttt do you know that stat? I’m curious anyway

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            20 to 30% have some form of complications, it’s particularly severe in the vulnerable, very young, very old and compromised immune systems.

            https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/blog/2025/02/sho-march.html#%3A~%3Atext=Twenty+to+30+percent+of%2Ceasy+for+measles+to+spread.

            I don’t think that includes the general weakened immune system that a lot of people experience after the measles, children apparently lose 12 to 73% of their antibodies following a mild measles infection.

            https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/measles-does-long-term-damage-immune-system-studies-show#%3A~%3Atext=After+severe+measles%2C+children+lost%2Cover+similar+or+longer+durations.

            it’s highly transmissible, 9 out of 10 people who are exposed and unvaccinated will get it.

            https://www.idsociety.org/public-health/measles/know-the-facts/

            there are a ton of stats and a ton of complications that can occur with measles, so it’s difficult to find one comprehensive number for everything, but everyone who is unvaccinated will probably get it after less than 90% of the population is vaccinated, 20 to 30% will develop complications, a lot of those are going to be permanent. and even the temporary complications can last for years.

            We don’t have more recent data because it was eradicated so rapidly in 3 years after the vaccine was introduced, but prospects sure don’t look good for dumb families and whichever population they’re poisoning.

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        On the topic on non-mortal cases, this CDC page says the hospitalization rate for 2025 has been 20% (30% for <5 year olds)

        https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/

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        Mmr and chickenpox both can cause Temporary infertility in men, if you catch it later. It because it causes inflammation in your tubes of the testes

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      3 percent of kids dead is a small price to pay for Texans to not have to reevaluate how they make decisions.

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        They’ll never stop defending their right to let others die for their obstinacy.

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      Measles wipes your immune system as well. You’ll be having a miserable next decade or longer getting sick from everything again.

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        There was a Simpson episode, about Maggie getting chickenpox and Marge had to make sure Homer doesn’t come close to her, since he never had it

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      Can’t wait to see conservative morons saying “hurr durr 3% isn’t even that high of a percent”

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