Re: idiots walk among us

On 3/8/25 4:30 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

On 3/7/25 6:11 PM, WolfFan wrote:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/marjorie-taylor-greene-promotes-
measles-parties-for-kids-amid-deadly-outbreaks/ar-AA1At4JL
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you can’t make this up. If someone tried to put this into the plot of a
work of SF, any competent editor would reject it as too stupid to allow
suspension of disbelief.
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 You do realize that these were a thing back in the 1950s and 1960s, right?  So if someone is writing an SF work set in that era, it would be perfectly accurate.

Measles parties in that time were held on the assumption that the disease was so widespread that every child would get it, so they might as well get it at a convenient time when they can plan for it. I'm not saying it was a good idea, but it was less crazy than having such parties in the current world, where the disease is comparatively rare.
Greene's idea seems to be that it should be made into an epidemic so that the survivors will have herd immunity.
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