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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social

One of the things that I find so disgusting about his claim that it “mimics natural immunity” is that it supports the very idea which caused the current crisis, that there is something superior about post-infection immunity. It is literally saying measles is less dangerous than the MMR vaccine.

aug 6, 2025, 12:33 pm • 106 14

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social

This exact messaging will lead to child deaths, paralyzation, people going blind or deaf, and widespread immune amnesia because parents have started having “measles parties” again, like the varicella “chickenpox parties” of the 80’s and 90’s which saw a resurgence during COVID.

aug 6, 2025, 12:38 pm • 83 11 • view
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Dingodingo @dingodingo14.bsky.social

Genuine question: did people ever have measles parties? I know RFK, Jr. mentioned them recently, but I figured he was getting measles mixed up.with chicken pox. I grew up during the time people were allegedly having chicken pox parties, but I never knew they happened until recently.

aug 6, 2025, 2:07 pm • 3 0 • view
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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social

Also worth adding that referencing COVID while promoting post-infection “natural immunity” as a benchmark is extra odd given the window for antibodies was only a matter of months at the start of the pandemic, and has shrunk each mutation.

aug 6, 2025, 1:11 pm • 60 11 • view
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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social

Incidentally for the sake of transparency, I was typing fast on the train and should have said inactivated not deactivated. God willing, he’s referring to the first, although it feels presumptuous at this point to assume.

aug 6, 2025, 2:23 pm • 17 3 • view
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ambervalent.bsky.social @ambervalent.bsky.social

Heard a researcher decades ago make the point you’re making, that Cancer is natural. Natural does not mean good.

aug 6, 2025, 12:41 pm • 8 0 • view
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greenlynx @lynxspider.bsky.social

Yes, the Black Death pandemic in the 14th century (which killed 30% to 60% of the population, or so I've read) was perfectly natural too. Sign me up!

aug 6, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social

Yup. one of the best lecture topics I enjoyed in public health school was tackling this particular kind of logic, because aside from what you point out it’s also a holdover from centuries old “medical” frameworks that led to things like casual arsenic use and bloodletting. You know, natural cures.

aug 6, 2025, 12:55 pm • 12 0 • view
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Phil @keeptheskyblue.bsky.social

I mean, mRNA mimics natural immunity in a way, we already have the best possible solution! 🤦🏻‍♂️

aug 6, 2025, 1:43 pm • 5 0 • view
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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social

Yup. He seems to have this almost theological belief that mRNA does something fundamentally different

aug 6, 2025, 1:48 pm • 2 0 • view
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Geoff NoKings @dontinnovate.bsky.social

They are eugenicists. They believe that people who survive infection are superior. They believe it is “superior” if the “weak” are culled.

aug 6, 2025, 2:22 pm • 3 0 • view