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Phoebe's avatar

Same here. Had measles, mumps, chickenpox as a child, got over all of them, and grew up with natural immunity, as did most of my friends.

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el gato malo's avatar

i'm not sure i see the equivalence here. sure, clearly, most people survived these diseases, but also, nearly everyone got them.

measles is perhaps the most contagious virus in human history. the R0 on it is around 18.

now, it's rare to find anyone with a case.

how is that not an argument that the vaccine has prevented the spread of disease?

the fact that recovered immunity stops re-infection (and it clearly does) seems sort of beside the point.

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