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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 41921 Gender:	Re: measles again, thanks to anti-vaxxers Reply #15 - Jul 27^th, 2026 at 8:56pm greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 8:47pm: ............... The measles vax for children in the USA is free. Parents aren't getting their kids vaccinated because Trump and Kennedy are spreading lies about vaccinations. It has nothing to do with money or immigrants - it's 100% the rapist's fault.
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Reply #16 - Jul 27^th, 2026 at 9:08pm

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 8:56pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 8:47pm:

............... The measles vax for children in the USA is free.

Parents aren't getting their kids vaccinated because Trump and Kennedy are spreading lies about vaccinations.

It has nothing to do with money or immigrants -

it's 100% the rapist's fault.

You are both idiots. And Trump has made you total ****ing idiots, and Armchair and paki.. So that's another black mark against him. Cheesy

Coz you bozos have no free will, no ability to modulate your thoughts and behaviour, or to make independent decisions for yourselves
You are total puppets with Trump's hand up your arses, making you what you are: sad Pavlovian dogs. You are putty in his small hands, mongs.

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Reply #17 - Jul 27^th, 2026 at 9:10pm

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 8:56pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 8:47pm:

............... The measles vax for children in the USA is free.

Parents aren't getting their kids vaccinated because Trump and Kennedy are spreading lies about vaccinations.

It has nothing to do with money or immigrants -

it's 100% the rapist's fault.

Correct.

No POTUS has killed more of their own citizens than the rapist and convicted felon currently in the White House.

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Reply #18 - Jul 27^th, 2026 at 10:39pm

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 8:47pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 7:16pm:

lee wrote on Jul 24^th, 2026 at 5:21pm:

Wow. And this from the new highly educated Americans. Usually supposed to be Democrats. Roll Eyes

I caught the measles in 1994, just before I went in to hospital for minor surgery. I had to be isolated from other patients for the time I was ill. And I was better upon the day before I was released.

It does not matter how "highly educated" you are. Airborne diseases do not discriminate. I have no reason to get vaxxed for measles now that I am immune to the disease. Chances are, there are probably a lot of Americans that experience the same and don't believe that they need to spend money getting their children vaxxed.

The measles vax for children in the USA is free.

Parents aren't getting their kids vaccinated because Trump and Kennedy are spreading lies about vaccinations.

It has nothing to do with money or immigrants - it's 100% the rapist's fault.

Admittedly, I was assuming the cost of getting vaccinated based on the high cost of health care over in the USA. I don't know what it costs to be vaccinated against measles. I get a free influenza shot every year. But, given that I caught the flu before the vaccine was available, there was no need to go get vaccinated.

As I said, I got the measles as a teenager. I was sick for the week. I recovered fantastically. It is not something that needs to be a concern, unless you have compromised immunity. In those situations, you should be getting the vaccine. Otherwise, you might as well enjoy your immunity to the disease from here onwards.

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Reply #19 - Jul 28^th, 2026 at 12:05am

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 10:39pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 8:47pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 7:16pm:

lee wrote on Jul 24^th, 2026 at 5:21pm:

Wow. And this from the new highly educated Americans. Usually supposed to be Democrats. Roll Eyes

I caught the measles in 1994, just before I went in to hospital for minor surgery. I had to be isolated from other patients for the time I was ill. And I was better upon the day before I was released.

It does not matter how "highly educated" you are. Airborne diseases do not discriminate. I have no reason to get vaxxed for measles now that I am immune to the disease. Chances are, there are probably a lot of Americans that experience the same and don't believe that they need to spend money getting their children vaxxed.

The measles vax for children in the USA is free.

Parents aren't getting their kids vaccinated because Trump and Kennedy are spreading lies about vaccinations.

It has nothing to do with money or immigrants - it's 100% the rapist's fault.

Admittedly, I was assuming the cost of getting vaccinated based on the high cost of health care over in the USA. I don't know what it costs to be vaccinated against measles. I get a free influenza shot every year. But, given that I caught the flu before the vaccine was available, there was no need to go get vaccinated.

As I said, I got the measles as a teenager. I was sick for the week. I recovered fantastically. It is not something that needs to be a concern, unless you have compromised immunity. In those situations, you should be getting the vaccine. Otherwise, you might as well enjoy your immunity to the disease from here onwards.

This is correct. Measles once had, then immunity from it.

Now, here’s my 2 bubs, I had them fully immunised and with MMR etc
Why did my son get so sick with measles? I was horrified! I thought he was immunised against getting it.
He developed a high fever, was hallucinating and didn’t recognise me!
I asked the doctor how did this happen, I thought he would be better protected.
He mumbled but didn’t give me a clear answer.
It took a while for my son to recover and then I noticed changes …he was 3 yrs old and knew the alphabet as I taught him, it seemed to have gone into oblivion after his measles illness.

My husband, had all his childhood immunisation and I did too.
Our parents were very diligent following doctors orders.

Husband at age 6 got so ill with measles, doctor was a bit “brush off” with his mum as if she was a hypochondriac.
Eventually his mum presented her ill son in hospital.
You know what they said to her….”this child is very ill and should’ve been hospitalised earlier!”
Wanted to know who her GP was.
He had developed meningitis from measles.
It’s in the years that followed, and when we courted, he said he couldn’t remember his childhood.
So his memory from baby to 6 years of age were wiped!

(I can tell you even in my time as mum being in rural area there weren’t many doctors, and not very good at that)

Now, chicken pox, I’ve had the vax. I got chicken pox. I recall my young brother did.
My kids got it too! School age. What the ?

And me at age 42 got shingles! (The same virus that causes chicken pox) It was so bad!
Apparently that can come around every 30 years!
Hopefully they have better viral meds now if I get it again!

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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 21322 Gender:	Re: measles again, thanks to anti-vaxxers Reply #20 - Jul 28^th, 2026 at 1:28pm My wife recently got a bad case of shingles, some months after a booster shot. It seems the vaccine is not 100% even after all these years.
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Re: measles again, thanks to anti-vaxxers
Reply #21 - Jul 28^th, 2026 at 1:50pm

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 8:47pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 7:16pm:

lee wrote on Jul 24^th, 2026 at 5:21pm:

Wow. And this from the new highly educated Americans. Usually supposed to be Democrats. Roll Eyes

I caught the measles in 1994, just before I went in to hospital for minor surgery. I had to be isolated from other patients for the time I was ill. And I was better upon the day before I was released.

It does not matter how "highly educated" you are. Airborne diseases do not discriminate. I have no reason to get vaxxed for measles now that I am immune to the disease. Chances are, there are probably a lot of Americans that experience the same and don't believe that they need to spend money getting their children vaxxed.

The measles vax for children in the USA is free.

Parents aren't getting their kids vaccinated because Trump and Kennedy are spreading lies about vaccinations.

It has nothing to do with money or immigrants - it's 100% the rapist's fault.

In Robert Kennedy Jnrs case - All vaccinations or just "COVID"?

He's on record stating that he & his children had the regular childhood vaccinations.

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Re: measles again, thanks to anti-vaxxers
Reply #22 - Jul 28^th, 2026 at 1:56pm

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 10:39pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 8:47pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 7:16pm:

lee wrote on Jul 24^th, 2026 at 5:21pm:

Wow. And this from the new highly educated Americans. Usually supposed to be Democrats. Roll Eyes

I caught the measles in 1994, just before I went in to hospital for minor surgery. I had to be isolated from other patients for the time I was ill. And I was better upon the day before I was released.

It does not matter how "highly educated" you are. Airborne diseases do not discriminate. I have no reason to get vaxxed for measles now that I am immune to the disease. Chances are, there are probably a lot of Americans that experience the same and don't believe that they need to spend money getting their children vaxxed.

The measles vax for children in the USA is free.

Parents aren't getting their kids vaccinated because Trump and Kennedy are spreading lies about vaccinations.

It has nothing to do with money or immigrants - it's 100% the rapist's fault.

Admittedly, I was assuming the cost of getting vaccinated based on the high cost of health care over in the USA. I don't know what it costs to be vaccinated against measles.

Bill Clinton made it free for kids.

After only 24 days in office, President Bill Clinton announced a comprehensive childhood immunization initiative designed to assure that all children in the United States lead healthier lives by receiving age-appropriate immunizations against preventable diseases such as polio, mumps, measles, whooping cough, and diphtheria.

As part of his economic stimulus proposal, the President requested $300 million for Fiscal Year 1993 to reinforce the nation's immunization infrastructure by providing funding for communities to extend clinic hours, provide more staff, and increase information and education efforts and for the planning and implementation of a national immunization tracking system.

In its Fiscal 1994 budget request, the Administration asked for a doubling of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's immunization program funding to $667 million.

In cooperation with key congressional committees, the Administration has also prepared legislation that would provide recommended childhood vaccines to States for free distribution to health care providers who serve children enrolled in Medicaid or who don't have health insurance that covers immunization services.

Providers could not charge for the vaccine but could charge a fee for administration. State Medicaid programs would also be required to reimburse providers reasonably for vaccine administration.

This measure is designed to improve universal access to immunization services by helping to remove financial barriers that impede children from being immunized at the appropriate age.

Then the rapist and convicted felon came along and did what he always does - destroy things.

Trump cuts threaten free vaccine program for kids amid measles outbreak.

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Reply #23 - Jul 28^th, 2026 at 1:58pm

Sophia wrote on Jul 28^th, 2026 at 12:05am:

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 10:39pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 8:47pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 7:16pm:

lee wrote on Jul 24^th, 2026 at 5:21pm:

Wow. And this from the new highly educated Americans. Usually supposed to be Democrats. Roll Eyes

I caught the measles in 1994, just before I went in to hospital for minor surgery. I had to be isolated from other patients for the time I was ill. And I was better upon the day before I was released.

It does not matter how "highly educated" you are. Airborne diseases do not discriminate. I have no reason to get vaxxed for measles now that I am immune to the disease. Chances are, there are probably a lot of Americans that experience the same and don't believe that they need to spend money getting their children vaxxed.

The measles vax for children in the USA is free.

Parents aren't getting their kids vaccinated because Trump and Kennedy are spreading lies about vaccinations.

It has nothing to do with money or immigrants - it's 100% the rapist's fault.

Admittedly, I was assuming the cost of getting vaccinated based on the high cost of health care over in the USA. I don't know what it costs to be vaccinated against measles. I get a free influenza shot every year. But, given that I caught the flu before the vaccine was available, there was no need to go get vaccinated.

As I said, I got the measles as a teenager. I was sick for the week. I recovered fantastically. It is not something that needs to be a concern, unless you have compromised immunity. In those situations, you should be getting the vaccine. Otherwise, you might as well enjoy your immunity to the disease from here onwards.

This is correct. Measles once had, then immunity from it.

Now, here’s my 2 bubs, I had them fully immunised and with MMR etc
Why did my son get so sick with measles? I was horrified! I thought he was immunised against getting it.
He developed a high fever, was hallucinating and didn’t recognise me!
I asked the doctor how did this happen, I thought he would be better protected.
He mumbled but didn’t give me a clear answer.
It took a while for my son to recover and then I noticed changes …he was 3 yrs old and knew the alphabet as I taught him, it seemed to have gone into oblivion after his measles illness.

My husband, had all his childhood immunisation and I did too.
Our parents were very diligent following doctors orders.

Husband at age 6 got so ill with measles, doctor was a bit “brush off” with his mum as if she was a hypochondriac.
Eventually his mum presented her ill son in hospital.
You know what they said to her….”this child is very ill and should’ve been hospitalised earlier!”
Wanted to know who her GP was.
He had developed meningitis from measles.
It’s in the years that followed, and when we courted, he said he couldn’t remember his childhood.
So his memory from baby to 6 years of age were wiped!

(I can tell you even in my time as mum being in rural area there weren’t many doctors, and not very good at that)

Now, chicken pox, I’ve had the vax. I got chicken pox. I recall my young brother did.
My kids got it too! School age. What the ?

And me at age 42 got shingles! (The same virus that causes chicken pox) It was so bad!
Apparently that can come around every 30 years!
Hopefully they have better viral meds now if I get it again!

All Australias over 65 (50 if you're Aboriginal) are eligible for the 2-dose Shingrix vaccination course against Shingles for free.

I had shingles in my 40's too.

Haven't had the free shingles vax as yet.

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Re: measles again, thanks to anti-vaxxers
Reply #24 - Jul 28^th, 2026 at 2:10pm

Gnads wrote on Jul 28^th, 2026 at 1:50pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 8:47pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 7:16pm:

lee wrote on Jul 24^th, 2026 at 5:21pm:

Wow. And this from the new highly educated Americans. Usually supposed to be Democrats. Roll Eyes

I caught the measles in 1994, just before I went in to hospital for minor surgery. I had to be isolated from other patients for the time I was ill. And I was better upon the day before I was released.

It does not matter how "highly educated" you are. Airborne diseases do not discriminate. I have no reason to get vaxxed for measles now that I am immune to the disease. Chances are, there are probably a lot of Americans that experience the same and don't believe that they need to spend money getting their children vaxxed.

The measles vax for children in the USA is free.

Parents aren't getting their kids vaccinated because Trump and Kennedy are spreading lies about vaccinations.

It has nothing to do with money or immigrants - it's 100% the rapist's fault.

In Robert Kennedy Jnrs case - All vaccinations or just "COVID"?

He's on record stating that he & his children had the regular childhood vaccinations.

He has spread misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines, the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, and the hepatitis B vaccine.

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Reply #25 - Jul 28^th, 2026 at 3:09pm

Frank wrote on Jul 24^th, 2026 at 6:21pm:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jul 24^th, 2026 at 5:20pm:

The U.S. just shattered the record for measles cases, and experts say the surge is driven by anti-vaxxers.
As of late July 2026, the United States has officially recorded 2,295 cases of measles, eclipsing all of last year's total and marking the highest annual count since 1991.
Public health experts at Johns Hopkins University, who compiled the data, are deeply concerned by the speed of the transmission, noting that reaching this milestone so early in the year highlights a breakdown in community herd immunity.
Major outbreaks in states like South Carolina and Utah have driven the spike, proving that the highly contagious airborne virus can rapidly exploit gaps in local vaccination coverage.
The resurgence threatens the United States' official measles-elimination status, a designation the country has proudly held since 2000. For decades, the double-dose Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine successfully kept the disease at bay, but recent years have seen immunization rates slip below the critical 95 percent threshold required to prevent widespread transmission.
Epidemiologists warn that without aggressive efforts to combat vaccine misinformation and improve routine vaccination rates in under-immunized pockets, the U.S. will continue to see preventable pediatric hospitalizations and outbreaks spread through schools, households, and community spaces.

Third worlders.

Same here.

The tinted races are more susceptible to vaccine skepticism, eh? Correlation not causation, innit.

Good thing RFK's Health Secretary. I'm sure he'll sort this out once and for all, no?

Slavery ended far too soooooon.

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Reply #26 - Jul 28^th, 2026 at 3:27pm

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 8:47pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 7:16pm:

lee wrote on Jul 24^th, 2026 at 5:21pm:

Wow. And this from the new highly educated Americans. Usually supposed to be Democrats. Roll Eyes

I caught the measles in 1994, just before I went in to hospital for minor surgery. I had to be isolated from other patients for the time I was ill. And I was better upon the day before I was released.

It does not matter how "highly educated" you are. Airborne diseases do not discriminate. I have no reason to get vaxxed for measles now that I am immune to the disease. Chances are, there are probably a lot of Americans that experience the same and don't believe that they need to spend money getting their children vaxxed.

The measles vax for children in the USA is free.

Parents aren't getting their kids vaccinated because Trump and Kennedy are spreading lies about vaccinations.

It has nothing to do with money or immigrants - it's 100% the rapist's fault.

The jury's still out on that one, Greggery. It's a bit of a scientific conundrum.

The medical experts say one thing, the skeptics say another. Who to believe?

Can you say? Can I? Can anybody?

I think not. Fran's hypothesis is that their inferior genes are causing the problem. It's most compelling.

Too backward, tribal and tinted, you see. Scientific, innit. These people are infecting us.

The old boy's a bit of a culturalist, as you can tell. White man's burden, no?

We don't want them here.

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Reply #27 - Jul 28^th, 2026 at 6:32pm

Gnads wrote on Jul 28^th, 2026 at 1:58pm:

Sophia wrote on Jul 28^th, 2026 at 12:05am:

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 10:39pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 8:47pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 27^th, 2026 at 7:16pm:

lee wrote on Jul 24^th, 2026 at 5:21pm:

Wow. And this from the new highly educated Americans. Usually supposed to be Democrats. Roll Eyes

I caught the measles in 1994, just before I went in to hospital for minor surgery. I had to be isolated from other patients for the time I was ill. And I was better upon the day before I was released.

It does not matter how "highly educated" you are. Airborne diseases do not discriminate. I have no reason to get vaxxed for measles now that I am immune to the disease. Chances are, there are probably a lot of Americans that experience the same and don't believe that they need to spend money getting their children vaxxed.

The measles vax for children in the USA is free.

Parents aren't getting their kids vaccinated because Trump and Kennedy are spreading lies about vaccinations.

It has nothing to do with money or immigrants - it's 100% the rapist's fault.

Admittedly, I was assuming the cost of getting vaccinated based on the high cost of health care over in the USA. I don't know what it costs to be vaccinated against measles. I get a free influenza shot every year. But, given that I caught the flu before the vaccine was available, there was no need to go get vaccinated.

As I said, I got the measles as a teenager. I was sick for the week. I recovered fantastically. It is not something that needs to be a concern, unless you have compromised immunity. In those situations, you should be getting the vaccine. Otherwise, you might as well enjoy your immunity to the disease from here onwards.

This is correct. Measles once had, then immunity from it.

Now, here’s my 2 bubs, I had them fully immunised and with MMR etc
Why did my son get so sick with measles? I was horrified! I thought he was immunised against getting it.
He developed a high fever, was hallucinating and didn’t recognise me!
I asked the doctor how did this happen, I thought he would be better protected.
He mumbled but didn’t give me a clear answer.
It took a while for my son to recover and then I noticed changes …he was 3 yrs old and knew the alphabet as I taught him, it seemed to have gone into oblivion after his measles illness.

My husband, had all his childhood immunisation and I did too.
Our parents were very diligent following doctors orders.

Husband at age 6 got so ill with measles, doctor was a bit “brush off” with his mum as if she was a hypochondriac.
Eventually his mum presented her ill son in hospital.
You know what they said to her….”this child is very ill and should’ve been hospitalised earlier!”
Wanted to know who her GP was.
He had developed meningitis from measles.
It’s in the years that followed, and when we courted, he said he couldn’t remember his childhood.
So his memory from baby to 6 years of age were wiped!

(I can tell you even in my time as mum being in rural area there weren’t many doctors, and not very good at that)

Now, chicken pox, I’ve had the vax. I got chicken pox. I recall my young brother did.
My kids got it too! School age. What the ?

And me at age 42 got shingles! (The same virus that causes chicken pox) It was so bad!
Apparently that can come around every 30 years!
Hopefully they have better viral meds now if I get it again!

All Australias over 65 (50 if you're Aboriginal) are eligible for the 2-dose Shingrix vaccination course against Shingles for free.

I had shingles in my 40's too.

Haven't had the free shingles vax as yet.

Just so, Gonads. To a hammer, everything looks like a nail, no?

Measles, chicken pox, shingles - to a doctor, they appear to be examples of disease.

To the old boy?

Despicable third world tintedness.

Different strokes for different folks, innit.

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