Marjorie Taylor Greene, a prominent Republican congresswoman and a staunch ally of Trump, suggested a return to “measles parties” for children. She criticized contemporary attitudes towards vaccination, stating, “Now, they demonize parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids.”
“I didn’t vaccinate my kids and the one that lived turned out fine!”
“The Shotgun Philosophy of Life”
Survivorship bias at its finest
…is that an actual quote from her? The world is getting so stupid that I genuinely could see this being legit from her.
I could also see it being a line on the simpsons, if the simpsons still had good writters.
“Now, they demonize parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids.”
It’s pretty normal to demonize parents who abuse children.
You can’t cure stupidity…
She thinks the measles are like chicken pox, pretty much harmless to young ones. My parents tried to get me sick in the 70s, that’s just how it was done before we had a chicken pox vaccine. Finally got it at 16, still have the scars nearly 40-years later. But I got my shingles vax!
She’s literally this stupid. Some things we see these nuts try to pull off make sense, from an evil point of view. This move is plain stupid, and because we’ve forgotten what measles are people will listen.
BTW, I’m 54 and just now learning what measles are and how bad it can be. I had no clue, because I’ve never met anyone that had it.
i had chickenpox as a kid, i remember the aveeno baths for it, we were set in the same room to “inonculate” the rest of the siblings. as there was no vaccine at the time. Chickenpox is quite severe for adults though. i did get shingles around 20yo though. theres is shingles to potentially turn severe, but its rare. shingles can cause meningitis, and encephalitis, as well as spinal cord damage.
people who arnt sure about thier chickenpox immunity can ask thier doctors to do antibody titers(it doesnt detect dormant chickenpox in your ganglia though because theres no way to detect it outside of autopsy), your doctor maybe reluctant to administer the test though.
When my husband moved to Germany from Russia, he had no idea whether he was vaccinated as a child or not (he very likely was, but there weren’t records he was aware of and his mom died early). So he went to the doctor’s to ask for titers. They said they could test that but he would have to pay out of pocket, and offered to just vaccinate him again for free. He went through all the children’s vaccines - including chicken pox, which wasn’t around when we were kids (90s). It is the simpler, more accessible, and cheaper alternative to titers.
When my cousin had chicken pox my mom popped her finger in my cousin’s mouth, then popped that finger in my and my brother’s mouths.
I was a kid in the 90s and while pox was already somewhat of old sounding word, it feels especially archaic to realize that kids don’t have to go through any poxes anymore.
I was a kid when they were first developing the vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella (we called it German measles). So my brothers and I all got every one of them. I remember being sick with them, and with one of the measles types (don’t remember which) I was so sick I though I was gonna die. I’ll never forget lying there, even thinking of certain things made me puke (or dry heave) so I had to concentrate on not thinking of anything. I remember puking so hard it came out my nose. One of my brothers was so sick, his fever was so high, they took him to the hospital.
Do parents really want to put their children through this instead of a shot? WTF
should be child abuse
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I think the problem is fear. Parents are genuinely scared of vaccines because of the misinformation that’s been spread around.
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i had no sympathy for anti-vax adults during covid, their choice to risk their lives. But children with basic vaccinations? their parents are taking the risk and the ones that didn’t choose are getting the consequences
One side takes the risk, the other side faces the consequences.
Are we still talking about parents/children? Because that also applies to republican politicians/everybody else
Just had a thought. What if we took a insignificant amount of the virus and injected it into people. This would allow them to develop antibodies so that if they do become exposed they are ready to fight it.
Probably safer then just exposing people to the virus. Could also do it to enough people that it virtually eradicates the virus.
Just an idea. We would also have to do a bunch of testing and have a bunch of regulations around it. Just to prove there isn’t any unwarranted side effects.
If something like that worked, scientists would have done it by now.
Youre right. Sorry. I’m so dumb.
I have a better idea. What if we take the genetic code of the virus, inject it into people and have their own bodies produce many more virus particles so they get a stronger and more targeted immune response? Who knows, someone could win an important prize for that.
I read this comment and became autistic. Becareful people science makes you spicy.
This sounds like witchcraft. J/K
I don’t know if I should laugh or cry. What a timeline to be in right now.
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They’re not going to learn until they’re charged and convicted of homicide.
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To be honest. They not going to learn until we address the people who enable her. The useful idiots, the ones who promote her for their own gains. Psy ops.
Why are people debating measles vaccines again? The covid vaccine debate was stupid but I could kinda understand the concern there in comparison to this
The MMR (measels, mumps, rubella) vaccine is the one Wakefield was against. The OG of the vaccines cause autism movement.
Wasn’t that debunked though?
Thoroughly, yes, and the guy (Andrew Wakefield)was stripped of his medical license for malpractice because of it.
He did it so he could make money off selling those vaccines separately. It was always a fucking grift.
Elaborate? This sounds interesting
Just watch this if you want to. It is entertaining.
RFK JR has OF COURse saying it isnt neccesary to vax against measles, he did only partially backtrack that by only adminstering 2000doses lol. remember RFK JR is the one that resulted in 86 children deaths in samoa.
What happened in Samoa? I assume RFK is that american health secretary that looks like he’s a demon in a human suit?
He went to Samoa and started demonizing the MMR vaccine to the point where a bunch of the island stopped vaccinating their kids.
Then they had a measles outbreak. 86 kids died from it. RFK Jr refuses to this day to admit any fault.
Well, at least they don’t have autism! /s
Listen, a playboy bunny listened to her mommy instincts and came to the conclusion that vaccines caused autism.
If that’s not proof enough that vaccines are bad then I don’t know what is.
Consequences for letting people have their opinions when facts are right there.
Anti-Science sentiment. Scientists are their enemy, so anything science is bad.
'cept if they need it in particular
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Thanks to the magic of internet brain …
Her initials being MTG I always think of the MTG ass crack meme and so she is forever defaulted as a hairy ass rack in my brain.
That’s the image of her I have.
Thank you.
That moron again? Someone fire her please!
Out of a cannon? Into the sun?
Out of a trebuchet pointed at a wall.
It would be better if we used a catapult, that bitch doesn’t deserve the perfection that is the trebuchet
Out of a canon.
Into the sun.
Arrest her for attempted homicide
Laws are not made for the rich and in line. Its made for us. We can complain all we want but we should be able to all see this pattern by now
She needs to be censored and imprisoned.
She is massively psycho. She’s the same shit stain that harassed teenage survivors of school shootings. Clearly she doesn’t give a shit about kids.
I don’t think anyone that subscribes to right wing policies gives a shit about kids. It’s just an excuse. If they really cared about kids, they’d figure out a way to stop them from being victims of school shootings.
Stupid bitch.
Margerine Taylor Greene can go fuck herself!
