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RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’ (www.thedailybeast.com)

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“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

If only there was another proven way of doing this without the risk of serious complications of getting sick.

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 5 points 13 hours ago

In developed countries the mortality rate is lower, for example in England and Wales from 2007 to 2017 death occurred between two and three cases out of 10,000

In children one to three cases out of every 1,000 die in the United States (0.1–0.2%)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles

So, the US has ~340 million people with 21% under 18. Maybe half are under 10? That's about 34 million children. Say none of them were vaccinated and they all got measles. That's 34k dead kids.
Vaccination rates are probably around 90% at the moment though, so of the 34 million, 3.4 million would be susceptible. That's 340 dead kids.

If RFK Jr. thinks that's an acceptable number of lives to sacrifice, go ahead. Do it.