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    Remember the conspiracy theorists who though “the government” was using Covid-19 to cull the population? I wonder what they’re up to right now.

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    Well, he is stupid enough not to understand that this would kill a) kids and b) his own base.

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    Measles also resets your immune system for every other thing your body already learned to deal with. No, it would not be fucking better.

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    “The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.

    Wouldn’t it be great if there was something else that gave you protection against measles infection, without you actually having to have measles? If only …

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      The measles vaccine is literally a weakened version of the measles virus. It’s just an attenuated measles infection that allows your body to build antibodies against it without a full on infection.

      This guy should have stayed off the raw meat.

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        As I said in a different thread recently, the only issue is that the name “vaccine” has been tainted in the minds of idiots. Rebrand it as “natural immune system therapy” or something, and market it as something the establishment is firmly against, and they’d be lining up to get it.

        None of these people understand what vaccines actually do.

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      The sacrifice: Republican voters are declining

      Democratic voters remain unchanged

      Red State goes to Purple State

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        That was the theory behind COVID as well, and while it did happen at a 2:1 ratio, it wasn’t enough to impact the election in any way.

        Edit: I’ll mention it needs to happen in a statistically significant margin, within the swing states exclusively. Diseases and viruses unfortunately don’t operate off electoral maps…If it was just a general vote, it wouldn’t be an issue.

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    My father had measles when he was a little boy, sometime in the 1940s. It nearly killed him. Measles is no joke. Anyone trying to spread it around on purpose should get a bullet in the brain before they have a chance to harm others.

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    As a bonus for contracting measles, you’ll get all your previous vaccines and earned immunities deleted by the measles virus attacking your immune cells dedicated to remembering how to effectively fight past pathogens.

    So you can think of measles as THE antivaccine. No wonder the antivaxxers love it so much!