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Precisely. Agent Orange told RFK to “go crazy” as head of HHS, which is why RFK has gutted the CDC. Why plan for the future? With no immigration and little tourism the US can grow its own epidemics and let Europe soar to the front of pharmaceutical development. Enjoy your measles? Your bird flu? Hanta virus, which will extend its regional constraints because of non-existent climate change? Valley fever… fantastic! What’s needed is a fatal disease that only affects billionaires.
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I was told that I was not in my “right mind” because I supported vaccines – especially those which prevent death and life long disabilities such as deafness (german measles), infertility (mumps), various cognitive issues (measles)…ok will stop now
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Deafness is not a consequence of rubella (German measles). It is a cause of many developmental disorders if contracted by pregnant women, but deafness is not one of them. Measles, on the other hand, DOES cause deafness. And death. It is extremely contagious and requires more than 97% of the population to be immunized in order to limit outbreaks. So far as I know, measles is not associated with cognitive issues, unless you wish to consider mortality a cognitive issue.
Below, you will find a comment by alphaandomega (or someone else pompous enough to not use his real name and sees himself as the beginning and the end) that is full of conspiracies on everything from influenza to Covid. Disinformation and conspiracy theories go hand in hand these days. I wish those people would just find an edge and walk off of it. He sees himself as doing some sort of public service, where – at the very least – he is promoting ignorance and disinformation. If he thinks it’s alright to have someone like RFK, jr. influencing public health decisions he is either ignorant or malicious – rather like RFK himself.
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I am sorry for your hearing loss. During part of my career I worked with viruses. However, I did as you suggested and will suggest to you that you are misinformed. There are multiple web pages that clearly distinguish the symptoms and effects of rubeola and rubella. If your mom had rubella while pregnant with you, yes you could have neurological problems including deafness. However, nowhere is deafness reported to be associated with post-natal infection. Don’t blame the messenger.
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20278707/
https://www.hkmj.org/abstracts/v25n2/134.htm
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/article-abstract/604893
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/rubella/symptoms-causes/syc-20377310
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1792732/
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Thank-you for responding to my comments. Still, I would point out, that post-natal rubella is not associated with your deafness. Your mother’s infection, if it occurred at about 12 weeks pregnancy, may have been associated with your deafness The only quantitative report among those that you sent me says that, in the UK, over a 4 year period, congenital rubella infection was associated with auditory damage in about half the affected infants. However, what you said in your previous note was that you experienced post-natal infection and became deafened subsequent to that, implying that you were born hearing. And it was that statement that is contrary to the reports you sent. Rubeola (measles) on the other hand, IS known to affect hearing if contracted by children. It’s less likely to be associated with pre-natal infection as it more frequently results in fetal abortion. Symptoms are similar between the two diseases, although far less severe with rubella. It may have been either a latent infection contracted through the placenta that was not manifest at birth or a post-natal infection with measles (rubeola) that induced your deafness. Or it may have been a synergistic interaction due to multiple infection. (My grandfather who had both measles and scarlet fever simultaneously in the 1880s is an example of synergistic disease.) In sum, I beg your forgiveness for overstating my case, but would also suggest that you may well have been infected by a second virus subsequent to birth, or that you were not properly diagnosed at birth. In any case, we are in agreement that the MMR vaccine is a boon to children and adults and that the anti-vax conspiracists are misguided at best, dangerous at worst and that we should quarantine them from the general population.
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Deafness is not a consequence of rubella (German measles). It is a cause of many developmental disorders if contracted by pregnant women, but deafness is not one of them. Measles, on the other hand, DOES cause deafness. And death. It is extremely contagious and requires more than 97% of the population to be immunized in order to limit outbreaks. So far as I know, measles is not associated with cognitive issues, unless you wish to consider mortality a cognitive issue.
Below, you will find a comment by alphaandomega (or someone else pompous enough to not use his real name and sees himself as the beginning and the end) that is full of conspiracies on everything from influenza to Covid. Disinformation and conspiracy theories go hand in hand these days. I wish those people would just find an edge and walk off of it. He sees himself as doing some sort of public service, where – at the very least – he is promoting ignorance and disinformation. If he thinks it’s alright to have someone like RFK, jr. influencing public health decisions he is either ignorant or malicious – rather like RFK himself.
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Oh dear, you do seem to be struggling. I might pick up on various you say but as you refer to my comments as alphaandomega, well who exactly is dsyohalem anyway? No posts, no information via your name link. So you are a pompous hypocrite.
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It’s my initials followed by my last name beginning with Y.
You are an ass.
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It’s my initials followed by my last name beginning with Y.
You are an ass.
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Hello from the UK
You are very skilled with your cartoons, however I had hoped by now that many more people in the USA would have worked out that in 2020 they rebranded the ‘flu. This is why ‘flu almost disappeared from the statistics to be replaced by COVID 19.
Rebranding is standard business practice when sales are falling as it helps reboot sales.
Still if you think vaccines are any good against the ‘flu then I suppose you might as well have a double dose if you take what they call ‘flu shots too. Big pharma will be very pleased anyway.
By the way, I don’t know why people who hate Trump take the shots which I gather he praised. If they think he always lies, surely he is lying about the shots too?
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He had nothing to do with the development of the Covid vaccine, although he initially tried to take credit. Then, he botched the rollout. Living, as I do, in a country with a decent national health system, although there were delays the delivery was made efficiently and at no cost to the recipients.
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In a national health system such as the NHS recipients pay for vaccines via taxation whether they like it or not. The Covid vaccines were rolled out without the usual trialling which normally takes 10-15 years. Anybody who took the vaccines is a guinea pig.
Apart from the financial cost, the vaccines are causing some harm as vaccines invariably do. This has meant life changing conditions for the worse in some cases.
So they paid to be harmed. I wonder how they feel about that?
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We didn’t have 10 to 15 years to wait for trials for the vaccine. In my 70s when that happened I was only too glad to have something to fight it. I masked and remarkably I managed not to catch it. I have gotten all but the last booster and the newest one. I will get around to it. I have a fairly healthy immune system and I don’t get flu shots as I consider them a crap shoot. I’m also not a germ nut about everything being covered in germs. It’s called using common sense and these days I don’t think most people have any.
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I am glad you don’t get the ‘flu shots. As I said those who take the Covid shots are guinea pigs for the trials but in reality one is getting a shot for what we would call the ‘flu. I avoid such things like the plague.
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The influenza virus has a highly mutable capsid. It is that part of the virus to which immune response is initiated. Some strains are more virulent than others, but the vaccine requires modification because of the mutability of the capsid. Epidemiologists examine the frequency of new variants in the population annually (actually, it’s a fulltime job.) and new vaccines are produced in advance of the flu season. Influenza is quite contagious and some strains are fatal.
The Coronaviridae, while mutable are not nearly as much so as influenza viruses. Nor are they closely related. Conflating one with the other is a mistake. Broadcasting your error is spreading disinformation.
Even more, the experiment to which you refer was incredibly successful and has been performed more than two billion times. Get over it. And learn something.
If you wish to call those who accept the science behind this, deluded or hypocritical, feel free.
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