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20. Everyone needs to read the book "Booster Shots"

Wed Apr 2, 2025, 09:30 AM

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by Adam Radner.

The incubation period is exactly fourteen days. And people are most contagious before they break out in spots. And once the measles spots appear, they are no longer contagious. Those two facts explain a lot about its spread.

I'm old, as in trombones years old, so I had all of what we considered standard childhood diseases, measles, mumps, chicken pox. I always thought of them as quite benign, mainly because everyone got all those back then, and I never knew of anyone having serious side effects, let alone dying.

Measles could be totally eradicated on this planet as was smallpox. But not if people refuse vaccines and believe stupid stuff.

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