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How 'completely avoidable' measles cases continue to climb

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By LAURAN NEERGAARD

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So, then you obviously don’t understand science.

More people die and are damaged “naturally” from measles than from the “chemical cocktails” you’re so against.

Measles, polio, typhoid, Japanese encephalitis, and so on, the whole lot of them have been tamed thanks to... the simple vaccine. One of mankind’s greatest inventions.

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Still, misinformation about MMR safety is widespread. Fauci said the solution isn't to criticize people who have no way to know what's false. Instead, "we need to education them to show them what the evidence is."

Criticism is hugely directed to people that do know better and still insist on promoting dangerous infections instead of safe vaccines. People that see a thousand detailed scientific reports and dismiss them as some obscure conspiracy where doctors and nurses knowingly kill their own children for economic profit and when someone provide proof that their beliefs are false they simply repeat them as if that would make them true.

Ignorance is not that bad, but active and willing efforts to spread that ignorance with information that has been proven false should be criticized. Otherwise real evidence is drowned in a sea of lies repeated over and over again.

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I'd rather get Measles, and fight it off naturally (like 99% of people do) than ever shoot a Big Pharma chemical cocktail into my body.

@Burning ** - In 2011, the WHO estimated that 158,000 deaths were caused by measles. This is down from 630,000 **deaths in 1990. As of 2018, measles remains a leading cause of vaccine-preventable deaths in the world. In developed countries, death occurs in one to two cases out of every 1,000 (0.1–0.2%).

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So big pharma also makes cancer medicine, diabetes medicines, and well, all pharmaceuticals.

So do these people who distrust big pharma not take any medications at all? Does their distrust of big pharma extend to the point where they just accept disease when they get it?

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Pure propaganda. Just talk to the mothers who buried their children! Both the politicians and the doctors are firmly in the pockets of Big Pharma.

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