Rant #3,646: Big Shot

Measles cases are popping up all over the place. 

One kid already died from the disease in Texas, and the disease is rapidly spreading.

Two cases were just reported in New Jersey, and there have been many others west of where I live--but you just know that measles will be coming here too.

Why is there a measles outbreak?

Well, it is pretty simple.

First, you have people being let into this country without any innoculations, whether it is measles or polio, whooping cough, and all the other diseases that have been eradicated by real, honest-to-goodness vaccines.

Next, you have un-vaccinated people traveling abroad, and bringing the disease back with them to infect other unvaccinated people.

Then, you have people who won't let their children get the real vaccines. They don't trust any innoculations, mixing up true vaccines--which have done their job for generations--with the COVID shot. Both the Trump and Biden Administrations failed us here, mishandled the information about the shots--what they can and can't do--and all of this put a bug in the head for people who really should know better--they got the vaccines, the real vaccines themselves, and it didn't kill them, so why the hesitancy now?

Well, that is an easy one to figure out.

The buck stops on the doorstep of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., our new secretary of Health and Human Services, who is perhaps the most well-known anti-vaxxer in this country ... and yes, both he and his kids have gotten their shots.

People in social media have once again taken sides on the issue about innoculations and real vaccines, and I have been part of that discourse.

I do understand people being hesitant, to an extent, since our own government marked the waters with its mishandling of the dissemination of information about the COVID shot, but we nearly wiped out measles for good, and that vaccine is a real vaccine, and should never be said in the same breath as the COVID shot.

But you do have ignorant people in this country ... and they all got their vaccinations just like RFK Jr. and you and I did.

One former popular actress, who I will not name because she doesn't deserve mention here, has been spreading misinformation and lies for years on Facebook, and I finally got fed up.

I answered her in the following way:

"Stop the nonsense. You, yourself have the vaccines in your body. Have they caused you any harm at all?

The problem, which I said a million times, is that the government told us a bit of a fib about the COVID innoculation, which they told us was a true vaccine--like the measles and polio vaccines--but was only a mitigater, lessening the effects of the disease but not wiping it out like a true vaccine does.

But you people who have become so suspect of all true vaccines are completely paranoid, and paranoid without reason.

Ever have measles? I had it when I was very young. The vaccine was not out yet--not for about four years. They are the first memories of my life, and they are not good ones.

Have all children get their vaccines, as kids have been doing for generations. They won't die from getting them--they will live a full life!

And as for the COVID shot: ask your doctor which shot you should get, because not all people can get the Moderna and Pfizer shots because of existing health conditions. But COVID was/is real, and the shots do work to lessen the effects.

I had three COVID shots, got COVID, and I had it for--12 hours! That's it!

And stop the misinformation. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about!"

There isn't really very much more to add to this, other than some of this actress' followers took me to task big time.

Not one would address whether they ever had measles like I did.

I could have died from this disease back in 1958 or so. Even if the vaccine was around then, I probably could not have been given it, because I was way too young.

Thank goodness doctors created this vaccine, which really does work.

And measles is very good at finding people who have not been vaccinated.

Let your kids and grandkids get whst is called the MMR set of vaccines; it has protected us for generations, and it will continue to protect us for generations to come.

Nothing more needs to be said on this subject.

Have a good weekend, and I will speak to you again on Monday.