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0 pointsrich_sasha5mo ago0 comments

Well, measles, in a rich country with good healthcare and healthy children is mostly (mostly!) an inconvenience. You can expect to survive it without much consequence. Wikipedia quotes death rate of 0.2% in the US in the period 1985-1992. Perhaps countries with universal access to healthcare would do much better. It would surely be much better today again with better healthcare, and even the unvaccinated will mostly never get it. I quite clearly exclude the left tail from my post.

But it's much worse if anyone from a poorer country takes notice and tries to copy.

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frm885mo ago

Well, measles, in a rich country with good healthcare and healthy children is mostly (mostly!) an inconvenience. You can expect to survive it without much consequence.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/measles-does-long-term-da...

After severe measles, children lost a median of 40% (range, 11% to 62%), and after mild measles they lost 33% (range, 12% to 73%), of their total preexisting pathogen-specific antibody repertoires. Paired, healthy controls retained approximately 90% of their repertoires over similar or longer durations.

You might want to rethink your above statement.

gspr5mo ago

> Well, measles, in a rich country with good healthcare and healthy children is mostly (mostly!) an inconvenience.

… and to hell with the unhealthy children? This is what I mean. Incredibly selfish thinking.

> Wikipedia quotes death rate of 0.2% in the US in the period 1985-1992.

Oh, so just thousands and thousands of dead children then. "Just an inconvenience". Your comment is disgusting!

soco5mo ago

"some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make" - mandatory Lord Farquaad quote.

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