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.”

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      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

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    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.

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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.

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    Thought the bitch was pro life? This seems quite anti-life to me.

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      Thought the bitch was pro life?

      That’s a question? No, I didn’t. Thanks for asking.

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        I’m being sarcastic. MTG is a disgusting hypocrite no matter how you look at her.

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    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

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      Long before there was a vaccine, I developed meningitis from a measles infection. Luckily my parents weren’t idiots and took me to the hospital. I ran a high fever, had febrile convulsions and hallucinated. Afterwards, I was over-sensitive to light for at least a week. Anyone who would inflict that on a kid belongs in prison or worse.

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    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.

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      What if we took a insignificant amount of the virus and injected it into people.

      That’s called vaccination. At least, that was one of the original methods. You can use killed virus, weakened virus, a related virus that triggers the same immune response (for example, cowpox for smallpox), or a selected part of the virus that will trigger the immune response but is not capable of infecting you. The last is the most common method used now because the weakened-virus approach can go badly wrong.

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      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.

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      They aren’t pro-life. They are forced birth. It isn’t about the baby, it’s about power over women.

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      Don’t even take chicken pox lightly. It gives you shingles later in life. I have epilepsy as a result of getting chicken pox.

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        Chickenpox is also pretty dangerous to adults, they cause similar issues like an adult getting measles or rubella, and it’s capable of causing pneumonia and orchitis( infertility), there is a small chance it can cause brain inflammation much like shingles can

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          I had shingles around 19-20ish, if I had it older it would’ve been more severe. Although my rash was small the symptoms affected my spine, as I noticed I had back and neck pain and my whole back was very stiff. It was this close to becoming meningitis . Most people don’t get spine symptoms, since it’s considered uncommon