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