“This already sucks. It can’t get any worse, right?”
Wrong, I guess
lana del rey / cinnamon girl
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VACCINATE YA KIDS FFS
The other thing about measles is that it resets your body’s memory of other diseases. So all those times you’ve gotten sick? Your body’s memory cells no longer remember those illnesses, so even if you get the same type of illness again your body will react like it’s the first time you’ve been sick.
It’s so much worse than “just a disease”.
Measles does WHAT
Holy fuck
Yeah, one of the things measles does is basically reset your immune system. This happens because the measles virus directly attacks and WRECKS the cells responsible for attacking diseases and keeping a memory of past infections. Sure, you’ll eventually regrow all those immune cells you lost, but the new cells won’t have the memories of anything but that specific measles virus. It’s like a computer virus that deletes your fucking antivirus software.
So yeah, be responsible and GET VACCINATED because viruses have had millions of years to evolve the most effective ways to fuck up their hosts, and surviving an infection is not fucking worth it when you could just get protected from it instead.
