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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: idiots walk among us
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:40:33 -0500
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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
>>
>> 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