• A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.com
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    • Measles estimated case-fatality rate: 1.3%
    • Estimated US population: 346,715,067
    • Measles deaths if everyone in the US got measles: 4,507,295
    • Upper limit on estimated MMR vaccine caused anaphylaxis: 0.000066%
    • Anaphylaxis case-fatality rate: 0.3%
    • Estimated vaccine-caused fatality rate: 1.98 * 10^-7 %
    • Estimate vaccine-caused fatalities avoided by not vaccinating US population: 0.69
    • Net increase in fatalities from switching to measles natural immunity for everyone in the US: 4,507,294

    So it would only be better if he wants an extra 4.5 million Americans to die.

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      Measles also resets your immune system, making other illnesses deadly again.

      Back in the day you’d survive Smallpox, then get Measles, then get Smallpox again.

      These days, I guess it will be Covid and the Flu killing most people.

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        its more or less immunosuppression rather than resetting it, measles infect the dendritic cells which tells your t-cells to attack, so when those are destroyed your body cant react to new diseases, its also a form “acquired immunodeficiency”, your body still can fight, it just takes a lot longer, since b-cells takes a while to pump out enough antibodies.

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      Well I was told that deporting people would solve the housing crisis. Since that isn’t working out killing 4.5 million Americans seems like their fallback position.

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        I was about to say, the collapse of the hospital system under the burden of both measles and all the other reasons people will still need hospitals will multiply that percentage.