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One of the coolest things about measles is that if it doesn't unalive you, just wait. That was round one. It has this amazing ability to erase your adaptive immune system through a process called immune amnesia. Every vaccine you have gotten, every flu you have had, every bacteria infection, ear infection UTI and the rest where your body learned to target a specific infectious disease is erased from its memory.

This is why you have a higher chance of death during the next two years than people who didn't get measles. And if it does get you this way the death won't be listed as being caused by measles. It will be listed as whatever childhood disease put you in the grave.

When you tell people who "did my research" for measles about this they claim it doesn't happen or don't know anything about it. Because they didn't actually do their research. They confirmed their bias. They looked for reasons to reject immunity instead of consequences of infection.

Vaccinate yo damn kids.

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