2026-09-18 20:16 UTC
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@Neea@corneill.es 2026-09-19 07:33
@hrefna@hachyderm.io I'm 43, vaccination for measles was not a thing when I was a kid. My little brother had it so I got it too and, more importantly, my dad got it. He spent a MONTH in bed, convinced he was going to die (he was overreacting a bit because he's rarely sick but it was a lot) No relation but my best friend is resistant to the measles immunity. She had it twice already (as a kid and as a teen) and was vaccinated twice. The older she gets, the worse a new contamination could be. Get a vaccine. Vaccine your kids. You don't want to have it, you don't want them to have it and you should not want to risk passing it to others.
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@hrefna@hachyderm.io 2026-09-18 20:19
I _had_ been vaccinated. But then I got to be immunocompromised temporarily. Measles in a vaccine breakthrough scenario produces a short, intense version of the illness. It's _still_ a lot safer and a lot better than having the disease without being vaccinated. It was _miserable_. I do not even want to think what it would have been like without a vaccine.
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@RantingCanuck@mstdn.ca 2026-09-18 22:24
@hrefna@hachyderm.io I fully agree I contracted measles as a teenager; I'd had one dose of the vaccine but the recommendation to receive two doses came later Even one dose of the vaccine measles was unpleasant, I can't imagine how bad it would have been with no vaccinations.