HHS Secretary: It Would Be Better If 'Everybody Got Measles'

> "It used to be, when I were a kid, that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection"

I suppose the kids who were hospitalized and died did, technically, gain "lifetime protection from measles"!

If "natural" inoculation was that effective and that safe, you know hwat? The disease would already be extinct generations ago, and we wouldn't be having these discussions. If anything, crazy folks like this are helping a disease we almost had practically eradicated.

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This is even worse from a personal-liberty perspective, because even if it were as safe as vaccines (it isn't) to be effective you would need to force/compel/entice even more people into partiicpating, since it's actually increasing the number of infectious sources and routes in the short-term.

Even for kids not hospitalized/dead, measles damages and kinda-resets the immune system, meaning they become vulnerable to injury/death from other diseases even after you thought they were safe.

Congress needs to impeach this idiot NOW!!!

They did, however they can issue a mea culpa and say they were supporting the president's fresh approach to governance but not intending to support gross incompetence. They can get him out and still save face.