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From: Tim Merrigan <tppm@rr.ca.com>
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Subject: Re: idiots walk among us
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 05:25:33 -0700
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On 3/8/2025 7:26 AM, Gary McGath 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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
> 


Comparatively rare, and easy to prevent.

[Contagious disease] parties were a relatively good idea, when they were 
about the only to inoculate people from the wild spread of the diseases.

Now we have vaccines.

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Qualified immunity = virtual impunity.

Tim Merrigan

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