immigrants
 

What about all the immigrants the liberals want to let flood in with NO VACCINATIONS or check at the border - some had TB

Not good, on the clothing drive... waiting for a Church to launch a drive for the people in LA.... evidently all the refugees receive brand new clothing and hygiene products.. Religious and cultural reasons....

Well said, and, unfortunately, seems to be so true, and not just what you have stated, because some of what we have done in the world lately is nothing less than disgraceful, but that's another story. You echo my sentiments...exactly.

I was immunized as a child; when I was trying to get pregnant my doctor tested me and my immunity was not good so I got another vaccine and had to wait to get pregnant. Your doctor can check if you’re still good to go.

When you go to your doctor is definitely a good question to ask as they are the experts however I was looking up just last month about vaccinations in general from our earlier childhood years and there are quite a few that you should get boosters that I recommended Tdap is a series for for four specific diseases that we can catch in our old age as well as of course shingles, and the regular Chinese flu yearly but the first few I mentioned are extremely important as they do weekend as we age so of course please talk to your doctor

Before it was standard to give antibiotics for Strep Throat, many people who got that then got Scarlet Fever, which sometimes led to an infection of the heart that could kill or could damage one or more valves permanently. One of my aunts had to have a heart valve replacement forty years after Scarlet Fever damaged her heart. I remember one of my. Fourth grade friends having heart damage because of it in 1964.

Last summer I talked with my 92 year old dad about how scary polio was for parents when I was little and how liberating it was when we kids were able to get vaccinated. It was like emerging from under an umbrella of fear. What I remember is fighting and crying over getting a shot, and how happy I was when the next polio vaccine came on a delicious sugar cube.

Some of you can remember the kind of smallpox vaccination where the doctor broke off the end of a tiny glass capillary tube and stuck the sharp end a dozen times or more into the kid’s arm in a half-inch circle. I remember my pediatrician telling me it would be like a “Little Indian Dance.” I disagreed. Violently. Fortunately I am braver now. I’ll bet plenty of you still have a smallpox vaccination scar. Later, there was a new version that was just an injection and didn’t leave a scar. I remember not being able to touch it until the scab fell off on its own, which took several weeks.

The big difference is in the infection rate and the method of infection between measles and covid. Covid is much more virulent. Measles patient could be treated at home. Not covid . Covid patient may need lung machines . Not measles . The rate of death is only equal to measles because we have much better care today than 50 years ago. Both are highly preventable with proper vaccination and social distancing. Neither a measles or a covid patient would I kiss on the lips with a tongue insertion.

Just to clarify a bit. Tdap protects against THREE diseases---tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis. Plain tetanus is recommended as a "booster" every 10 years, pertussis in some situations, and we rarely give diphtheria vaccine boosters. You cannot "catch" shingles, it is a reactivation of the varicella (chicken pox) virus from childhood that stayed dormant in the dorsal root ganglia. And the "regular flu" is not necessarily Chinese. ( and that's weaken, not weekend). End of clarification.

Measles
 

Excuse me but how far away was the Chinese virus virus? Didn't come over this way?? Not a very good answer you did

If you're concerned...
 

You can get a blood test to see if you still have immunity

The subject is Measles Measles, not the virus virus.

Not much of that is accurate either.

Have your Dr. do an IGG blood work to check for the antibodies for the measles. The results will tell you if you still have the antibodies and how much of them. I did it a few years ago for measles, mumps, rubella and chicken pox. All were still high. Two weeks ago I had my antibodies checked for Covid. I have the Moderna vaccine 7 months ago. My antibodies were still high. The Dr. said to check every three months and if the level goes down, then I should take the booster.

Most of us had measles and chicken pox as a child, long before the vaccine was available. That provided you with a pretty strong immunity, likely life long. Most children are vaccinated with MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) as a condition to enter school. So for the most part, those at risk of contracting the very contagious measles are very young children. That’s a scary thought. Anyone entering the country from another may not be vaccinated for the basics and I can only presume that there will be an all out effort to get those entering from Afghanistan vaccinated quickly.

:ohdear: Sure, yeah, uh huh, because we all know that people from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa don’t travel to The Villages in the winter.

I and my siblings had the measles when we were young and it was miserable. Headache, aches, rash that looked like a red blanket an our bodies and we were pretty uncomfortable until it passed. I don’t want that again but maybe we still have antibodies loaded in us.