Re: idiots walk among us

On 3/8/2025 12:56 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:

In article <0001HW.2D7BB48800F8D22B70000998A38F@news.supernews.com>,
WolfFan  <akwolffan@zoho.com> 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.

 As someone on the conservative side, I find MTG to be a
<deleted> embarrasment.
 Yeah, before the vaccine was invented, there were two
approaches to measles -- strict quarantine, which was not
very effective because measles is one of (if not the) most
contagious viruses in existence, and, yes, measles parties,
on the theory that everybody was going to get it, regardless,
and the earlier it could be gotten over, the better.  As an
old geezer, I had measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox... they
did have polio, diptheria, whooping cough, smallpox, and
tetanus vaccines, so I was vaccinated against those.
 Nobody gets vaccinated against smallpox any more, since the
virus is extinct.  In the wild.  I grimly await some
(long string of weapons-grade expletives) to break that
out of the freezer and inflict it on the world again.
 Brain damage, deafness, blindness, death ... A six year
old child died of measles in Texas just the other day.
 ... also got the vaccines for Covid and all boosters,
pneumonia, RSV, the yearly flu shot... and due to a
business trip to India, hepatitis and typhus. Maybe
something else, I forget.

My former USMC son got the smallpox vaccination from a Navy Corpsman before his second trip to Iraq in 2007.  All 1,500+ men in the Marine Battalion got the smallpox vaccination.
Lynn