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'It's not unusual': RFK Jr. comments on growing Texas measles outbreak (www.nbcnews.com)

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When questioned about a growing measles outbreak in West Texas that has claimed at least one life, Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told reporters "we have measles outbreaks every year."

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Longer that that I think. I'm 54 and am just now learning what measles is, hadn't much of a clue. Disease that makes kids spotty and not my fucking problem because we were all vaccinated? Kinda like grandma's smallpox scar. "Fuck is that?!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I remember it being really strange to me as a kid that there were a lot of film and TV shows where a kid would get either the measles or mumps and then have padded cheeks, and I had no idea what these illnesses were and never heard of anyone getting them. I think my mom at some point said it was more common in the 60s or 70s. That was back in the 80s mostly they really don't even show up in any 90s written stuff, and I'm sure a lot of it was reruns from the 60s or old teen comedies, (not the sexy or unedited for TV kind)

These fuckers really want to bring back the 50s polio and all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

It was officially eradicated in the US in 2000 per NPR