Re: idiots walk among us

In article <robertaw-9199F5.21454808032025@news.individual.net>,
Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

In article <vqhsp6$5pq$1@reader1.panix.com>,
jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:
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In article <vqhnj4$6sfh$1@dont-email.me>,
Gary McGath  <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:

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.

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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.
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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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It would have the advantage that measles resets immunities, which means
when bird flu jumps to humans, the resulting US pandemic should be more
exciting.

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US Pandemic!? If bird flu jumps to humans on that scale, the entire
world population will be part of the excitement.

That's true, but most nations don't have their health care run by 
Robert Kennedy, jr as supervised by Donald Trump.

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