“It is not a mild infection, it is not a mild virus; it is a severe illness. And they kept on telling me they wish they’d known beforehand how bad measles was, so that they could have protected their family,” she said.

  • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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    These people are an extremely dangerous combination: highly uneducated and privileged enough to not have experienced actual hardship.

    They probably expected the sniffles or some shit, not a highly contagious horrible disease that can have permanent detrimental effects on your body, including brain damage, deafness, blindness, lung damage, or you know, straight up death.

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      Like how most Americans sincerely believe that a bad head cold is the flu. “I don’t need to get vaccinated; I get the flu every year and it’s not that bad.” Yeah, no you don’t. You get a cold every year.