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To illustrate how fucking insane this is:
Measles has a death rate of 1-2 per 1000 cases. With US population at 340,000,000, that means 340,000 - 680,000 dead. And that's out of the 85 million people hospitalized, which would be a society destroying situation.
Not only that but measles can cause immune amnesia! Which is when "the immune system forgets how to fight off infections it successfully dealt with before—and [research] showed that this effect lasts for years!"
I did not know that and thinking of that stuff like this is possible is fucking scary.