Are Measles the New Red Scare?

Measles in the new "Red Scare". I can speak from my experiences with it and also Rubella (German measles variety).

The rules when I was going into kindergarten was that you had to take a plethora of shots, measles and polio leading the list. Like any kid in the 1960's, I HATED shots, but my mother was firm about it. She didn't want us to get sick...but I contracted it my first year in school because of some kid (don't remember who) was a "carrier" with a mild case of it. In those days, the thought was"Give your child a shot, and they probably won't contract it". But the vaccine in those times were also very weak. All my siblings contracted the disease, shot or no shot.The thought also was once usually establishing immunity.
When I was 10 and in the fifth grade, I contacted Rubella, commonly known as German measles. The measles shot was ineffective on this disease; if you got it, you got it, and it had to run its course.

Now a few decades later, measles is making a comeback. Parents, according to the news as of this morning, are refusing for religious or political reasons to vaccinate their offspring, and they don't worry about their kids getting it because a few years ago, doctors said measles had been eradicated. Don't these parents know that measles can kill or lead to blindness or even diabetes? I and my siblings were lucky - we all contracted the strains of measles from each other, but because we had gotten shots, we ran the lower-risk strain of both.

The newscaster said that some parents are peeling the misinformation off the Internet about measles not being serious, and for that reason parents are not getting their kids protected. He also said the health departments of various states suggest people who were vaccinated as kids now get re-inoculated as adults. This means this is serious.

Sorry - not for me. Needles and I don't get along, and I had my share as a kid. If it comes,I'll hibernate in a closet someplace.