Are Measles the New Red Scare?

“Do we want to create a society of totalitarian medical rule where you don’t have a choice in anything that is dictated to you by the government and pharmaceutical companies? “ ~ Roman Bystrianyk, in “Measles: The New Red Scare” in “Foreign Policy Journal” https://tinyurl.com/yakeas45 See also “Why Measles is the Quintessential Political Issue of Our Time”, in The New Yorker https://tinyurl.com/y4oqnhg3

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soar2newhighs

No, it's not. When you got a small child, adolescent or teen and possibly an adult, suffering from the effects, and the condition is one of a contagious nature-it's NOT a scare, it's reality!

MaryJanine · 70-79, F

If you are an unvaccinated adult, and managed to come in contact with somebody who is a carrier, you're going to get it if you didn't as a child. That was also the reason why so many kids were vaccinated in the early years of the "polio scares". For two years in a row, when I was about six or seven, I got an attack in my knees during the winter and I couldn't walk. My parents had to guide me to and from the bathroom or bedroom. I know the fear was "polio" even though I had received the requisite shots. Whatever it was went away as I got older and grew up - until I was in my early twenties. The it came back with a vengeance - and stayed. Today, it is arthritis.