r/MurderedByWords • u/JerryJr99 • Jan 31 '25

#1 Murder of Week Your response is concerning, Bobby!

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u/erroneousbosh Jan 31 '25

The risks of measles complications are pretty low. The CDC in America seem to think that one in 300 or so children will die if they catch it, which seems implausibly high to me. I'm closer to Andrew Wakefield's age demographic than the average redditor, and old enough not to have been vaccinated against measles (back in the 1970s the vaccine was more dangerous than the disease) and I would have definitely heard of someone dying of measles among people I knew if it was that frequent.

The NHS reckons the risk is 1 in 20,000, which seems maybe a bit high, maybe about right.

But, my son is vaccinated with all the normal childhood vaccinations, so he doesn't have to worry about any of that. No week off school with an itchy spotty rash and a temperature for him!

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u/Fun-Key-8259 Jan 31 '25

Measles encephalitis- look it up

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u/erroneousbosh Jan 31 '25

I will if you can explain why your comment is relevant.

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u/Fun-Key-8259 Jan 31 '25

You are saying measles is no biggie. You are misinformed on the topic. The fact you don't understand relevance is funny as shit.

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u/erroneousbosh Jan 31 '25

Reading is hard for you, isn't it?

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u/Fun-Key-8259 Jan 31 '25

Not as hard as it is for you apparently.

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u/erroneousbosh Jan 31 '25

You might be American so you might not really have a high standard of literacy, so I'll make this easier.

Directly quote the part where I say that "measles is no biggie".

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u/Fun-Key-8259 Jan 31 '25

I was paraphrasing. You're so lost you don't even know what you wrote. You entered this convo with bad faith. Have the day you deserve.

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u/erroneousbosh Jan 31 '25

Okay, which bit were you paraphrasing?

At no point did I say that "measles is no biggie". Quite the reverse, in fact.