But legal immigrants still have to take useless Covid jabs. And the media, which went nuts over a Florida school cluster last month, is ignoring the Chicago cases. Sometimes the hypocrisy is too much.
I am 80 years old. I find the hysteria over measles and chicken pox puzzling. I had both. Actually, there were two or three things that were called "measles". I had them all. I remember all of them being a good excuse not to go to school a few days. No recollection of being seriously ill, everyone I knew had the measles/mumps/chickenpox and none of them had any difficulties, as far as I know.
I DO remember the chicken pox. I was the oldest of five; the first to get it. Almost instantly, the other four got it from me (presumably). One sister had a smallish scar on her face from the chicken pox. My mother was very upset; of course it was my fault. Today, she is in her 70's. That scar has long been unnoticeable.
It was considered important that males got the mumps prior to puberty--it was supposed to be a risk for sterility after puberty. My Dad actually got mumps from us--apparently he hadn't got it as a child. There are some pictures of him unhappily looking like a chipmunk. His family was complete at that point, don't know about the sterility part.
That could be my story. Same thing....,myself and two siblings were all infected at the same time and other than making my Mother miserable.....we survived. My Father also caught the mumps from us and we did have a little brother about 7 years later.
Wholly agree on the miserable mother part. SHE recalled in detail when we got these "childhood diseases"; she had a houseful of sick kids.
She took things seriously. If you got sick, you were locked down for at least a week, minimum. She was convinced that "relapses" were the danger. She wouldn't feed you for a couple days--primarily to limit vomit clean up. Then you got limited boiled eggs and toast. Confined to bed. No hypochondriacs in her brood--if you could drag yourself off to school, you did.
Once, she took pity on me. I don't recall what I had, but I was locked up. She got me a bunch of books on Amateur Radio to read. Within a year, I got my Ham license; went on to a PhD in EE.
Great Mom! It is all about money. The schools are afraid of losing all those federal dollars if the school has a major outbreak. When we were coming down with those pesky viruses.....the schools were still controlled by the state. Too bad that is not the case today.
Something very good came from a little time to yourself. A lifetime of fulfillment doing something you liked. We all slow with age but it helps to keep moving and doing.
My recollection was that after a couple days on water only, ANYTHING tasted wonderful. Usually, you were pretty much recovered--but those "relapses" were certainly lurking. I can still remember how delicious that couple boiled eggs and a piece of dry toast was.
I think we would get some hot tea the first couple days. We lived out in the desert and our water was horrible. From the Colorado, which at that point was pretty much a swamp, over chlorinated beyond comprehension. My mother had contracted typhoid earlier and nearly died; she was understandably paranoid about water. The chlorinator was turned up to max. We drank a lot of tea--made the water somewhat palatable.
In 1956-57, my mother took my younger brother and me next door to visit cousins (they always caught diseases before our household for some reason)so we could get infected, too. We all endured together. The good old days😊
Same here, I’m 73 and got all those childhood diseases in Cuba. When we came in 1960 I had all of them already. In fact in Cuba when my mother heard of a child with one of those ‘diseases’ she would take my brother and me over to get it and be done with it.
I'm almost CERTAIN my son had mumps when he turned 1 in 2002. Cheeks as big as chipmunks. Back then I was a naive mom. I took him to the dr and they just said he had an infection in his parotids. Hell if they would test for mumps. I am certain now he had no need one of the "M's" of the MMR when he turned 18 months.
Some of these "childhood diseases" were so mild in young children that it wasn't certain that they actually had them. I recall that when we had that chickenpox plague, my youngest brother was about two. Not sure he had them.
A good thing to Google is the Brady Bunch measles episode. All 6 Brady kids had measles at once. They played board games and ate ice cream and it was classic Brady Bunch. This was in the 1970s.
A few years ago, I got an episode of shingles--which is a recurrence of chicken pox. The MD told me I was potentially contagious. I was living with my youngest son and family at the time. His children were less than ten. I told him that I would isolate. His comment: "Don't bother. If they get it, they will be fine. Just don't tell my wife---she will freak out."
BTW, the British NHS doesn't routinely vaccinate for chicken pox. They DO vaccinate when indicated--a person out of childhood that hasn't had chicken pox, or someone with a condition that might make it dangerous. Their rationale is that adults, exposed to children with chicken pox, contract a very mild case--they don't even know they have it. But that mild case acts as a natural "booster" which lessens the likelihood of developing shingles. They think widespread vaccination makes shingles more of a problem in older people.
I don't know; I am an Engineer, not a virologist. But, I don't write them off as crazy.
As a kid, I only got the mumps. I caught chicken pox as an adult from my son. It was no big deal. Never did get the measles even though I was growing up in the 1950s.
You might have Mark. While the medical system maintains that 100% of people got measles spots and symptoms that is just not true. I never got measles spots and symptoms either, but when my children got them, I didn't... there is now a recognition in the medical literature that measles can be subclinical with no symptoms and resultant immunity.
It's the same with polio, chickenpox and hepatitis B. Polio has a 99.98% subclinical infection immunity rate and chickenpox and Hepatitis B both have a 60% subclinical infection immunity rate.
Every day we pick up potential pathogens and simply develop immunity to them.
Yes, I think that is true. Other times I have felt ill for a few hours and then it all went away. That’s what happened to me with Omicron. Stuffy nose for 3 hours that went away and didn’t come back. My famously healthy assistant (15 years and not one sick day!) had exactly the same experience.
I'm 74, and my experience was similar. Everyone expected to get measles, chicken pox, mumps possibly. What kids were frightened of was polio, and we were bombarded with photos of people in iron lungs, and I remember what a horrifying prospect that was. I just read an article about a man who just died at 78, and he had spent 70 years in an iron lung. His attitude towards life and his accomplishments were stunning: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/texas-man-who-lived-70-years-iron-lung-dies-78-never-gave-up-180979008/
Now if they would all stop being dupes and realize that there is no proof that viruses exist or that diseases are contagious, this whole charade would end, but where is the fun, power, and profit in that? Let the arguments from authority and affirming the consequent fallacies begin.
Part of the problem is that kids are no longer allowed to go outside and play in the dirt. Run around, work up a good sweat, get in fights. Roll around in the grass with the bugs and worms. All that builds resistance to disease but if you try to tell that to a modern daughter in law she’d never let you near your grandchildren.
The idiocy going on in our country is astounding. Illegals pouring over the border then bused/flown all over the country defies rational explanation. Anyone who believes the open border policy is a good idea has a severe mental illness.
Thank you for shining a light on the green card mandate! The government doesn't just require the COVID vax to apply for a green card, they require a recent booster as well, anyone with an original series from years ago will have to get one!
Also, the mandate extends to babies 6 months old, which also has to be mRNA because Novavax is not available for under-12s.
Thank you Alex for shedding light on a story that I hadn't heard anything about. Dr. Joseph Ladopo is such an impressive person - I hope that he can get a promotion in January to the Federal level.
As the unofficial spokesman for Florida man.That's a big negatory.Good buddy, we're keeping him here in Florida.We love the guy we ain't letting him go.
Perhaps that can happen if Kennedy is elected president. Trump would never appoint Ladapo for any position. Trump continues to spit in our faces and praises the covid jabs even more than the leftists do. Trump still claims his jabs saved 100,000,000 lives which is laughably absurd. The virus was never that fatal.
dr leanna wen pouring her heart out for the childrens is laughable.
she's the former president of planned parenthood, an organization that's literally dedicated to killing children. has to be said, though, that she was terrible at that job for whatever reason and somewhat ironically didn't make it to 9 months.
The CDC is also starting to do nasal swab testing for covid and other respiratory infections in some airports, where international travelers will be asked to participate. Oddly, there's no mention of this nasal intrusion being inflicted on illegals who are being waved in over the border and flown by the Biden government and deposited around the US.
Legal immigrant families must give COVID shots to their infants 6 months old. The U.S. is the only country in the world where 6 month old infants are required to get COVID shots.
For a while foreigners who want to enter the U.S. had to get COVID shots to get their VISA approved. While illegal immigrants never had to get COVID shots to enter the U.S. in the same time period. This was never explained or justified.
There is truly only one possible explanation. And it’s obvious. Globalist forces without and within our government destroying America for the “greater global good.”
It is my understanding those alive who had experienced mumps, measles, chicken pox, etc as a child ended up with very healthy and strong immune systems. Believe too experiencing these childhood diseases made it less likely to get cancer as a child. Wouldn’t a child experiencing chicken pox be far less devastating than getting cancer?
You are absolutely correct. this medical article was a dead give-away. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36634620/ The fact is that the same immunological problems occur with all injectable vaccines, not just respiratory ones. The whooping cough vaccine is one of the worst for creating high levels of IgG4 aberrant immunity... people injected with vaccines have a much lower ability to fight cancer and other disorders because their front line immune system hasn't been "educated" in the way that it did with the infections, and results in something called "original antigenic sin."
Stop the measles fear porn. You're now just as guilty as the pro-Covid vaccine journalists. I had it as a kid...no big deal. As did all my siblings. While I do get and appreciate your point about the hypocrisy of it all, you really need to do some research on these childhood sicknesses. And do your research with someone who really knows the data and reality, not with the fear mongering physicians or big pharma. Please. You seem stubbornly opposed to learning more about the sham of childhood vaccines for these formerly common sicknesses. Oh, and in Minnesota where I'm from, they've made a huge deal every time it happens about the unvaccinated Somali immigrant population getting and spreading measles. Except that it happened, the kids got sick, the kids got better, and everything was FINE. But we never hear that part of the story. I appreciate your reporting, but I wish you would wake up to the childhood vaccination scam. Read ONE book by the other side, ok? I recommend "Turtles All The Way Down: vaccine science and myth" to start your primary education.
This outbreak does not surprise me, in fact, I’m more surprised we’re not seeing MORE disease outbreaks - of all sorts.
Remember when the first 💩 💩 head, the current 💩 💩 imbecile’s mentor, opened up the border and "children" flooded in and then we had new outbreaks of "mysterious" illness(es) afflicting children around the country - mostly in large urban environs? Then, it faded away, became treatable, stopped being reported…
We use to have health screenings for immigrants, back before we had invaders. Now our health is at risk, our finances are at risk, our jobs are at risk, our economy is at risk, our livelihoods are at risk, our families are at risk, our liberties are at risk, our…
People don't like freedom they are used to government leaders telling people how to live their lives. Allowing illegal alien criminals to invade America. You are bringing in all kinds of diseases and problems like crime and drug addiction. I just don't understand why human trafficking is OK and Uncle Joe Robinhood Biden is being allowed to do so.
This federal government has not only failed to protect its citizens, but has, remarkably, increased the peril. And one day -- maybe-- the citizens will start scratching their heads.
You are correct. The five eyes, China, WEF, all globalists, including so many in our own gov’t, cannot achieve their globalist goals without destroying America. It’s very obvious, and frustrating and sad.
I am 80 years old. I find the hysteria over measles and chicken pox puzzling. I had both. Actually, there were two or three things that were called "measles". I had them all. I remember all of them being a good excuse not to go to school a few days. No recollection of being seriously ill, everyone I knew had the measles/mumps/chickenpox and none of them had any difficulties, as far as I know.
I DO remember the chicken pox. I was the oldest of five; the first to get it. Almost instantly, the other four got it from me (presumably). One sister had a smallish scar on her face from the chicken pox. My mother was very upset; of course it was my fault. Today, she is in her 70's. That scar has long been unnoticeable.
It was considered important that males got the mumps prior to puberty--it was supposed to be a risk for sterility after puberty. My Dad actually got mumps from us--apparently he hadn't got it as a child. There are some pictures of him unhappily looking like a chipmunk. His family was complete at that point, don't know about the sterility part.
That could be my story. Same thing....,myself and two siblings were all infected at the same time and other than making my Mother miserable.....we survived. My Father also caught the mumps from us and we did have a little brother about 7 years later.
Wholly agree on the miserable mother part. SHE recalled in detail when we got these "childhood diseases"; she had a houseful of sick kids.
She took things seriously. If you got sick, you were locked down for at least a week, minimum. She was convinced that "relapses" were the danger. She wouldn't feed you for a couple days--primarily to limit vomit clean up. Then you got limited boiled eggs and toast. Confined to bed. No hypochondriacs in her brood--if you could drag yourself off to school, you did.
Once, she took pity on me. I don't recall what I had, but I was locked up. She got me a bunch of books on Amateur Radio to read. Within a year, I got my Ham license; went on to a PhD in EE.
Great Mom! It is all about money. The schools are afraid of losing all those federal dollars if the school has a major outbreak. When we were coming down with those pesky viruses.....the schools were still controlled by the state. Too bad that is not the case today.
What a severe side effect from getting locked up...a PHD in EE. Frightening!!
It gave me a good life. I am still designing electronics. Slowly, these days.
Something very good came from a little time to yourself. A lifetime of fulfillment doing something you liked. We all slow with age but it helps to keep moving and doing.
In my house the standard cure was hot tea and chicken soup
My recollection was that after a couple days on water only, ANYTHING tasted wonderful. Usually, you were pretty much recovered--but those "relapses" were certainly lurking. I can still remember how delicious that couple boiled eggs and a piece of dry toast was.
I think we would get some hot tea the first couple days. We lived out in the desert and our water was horrible. From the Colorado, which at that point was pretty much a swamp, over chlorinated beyond comprehension. My mother had contracted typhoid earlier and nearly died; she was understandably paranoid about water. The chlorinator was turned up to max. We drank a lot of tea--made the water somewhat palatable.
Shoot when I was growing up we had chicken pox "parties" just to get over with quickly in the neighborhood
In 1956-57, my mother took my younger brother and me next door to visit cousins (they always caught diseases before our household for some reason)so we could get infected, too. We all endured together. The good old days😊
I am not 80, I had it all. They developed it to "help children not get sick", The illness was never that bad.
Same here, I’m 73 and got all those childhood diseases in Cuba. When we came in 1960 I had all of them already. In fact in Cuba when my mother heard of a child with one of those ‘diseases’ she would take my brother and me over to get it and be done with it.
I'm almost CERTAIN my son had mumps when he turned 1 in 2002. Cheeks as big as chipmunks. Back then I was a naive mom. I took him to the dr and they just said he had an infection in his parotids. Hell if they would test for mumps. I am certain now he had no need one of the "M's" of the MMR when he turned 18 months.
Some of these "childhood diseases" were so mild in young children that it wasn't certain that they actually had them. I recall that when we had that chickenpox plague, my youngest brother was about two. Not sure he had them.
It’s a money machine.
Scare the people.
Fake the study.
Scare the people
Come up with a vaccine.
Bribe the FDA.
Mandate a vaccine.
Make money and repeat.
F*ck with babies’ immune systems and make them need drugs for life.
So many immune system problems, yet even good doctors are trained NOT to look at the elephant in the room.
A good thing to Google is the Brady Bunch measles episode. All 6 Brady kids had measles at once. They played board games and ate ice cream and it was classic Brady Bunch. This was in the 1970s.
What has happened to us?
A few years ago, I got an episode of shingles--which is a recurrence of chicken pox. The MD told me I was potentially contagious. I was living with my youngest son and family at the time. His children were less than ten. I told him that I would isolate. His comment: "Don't bother. If they get it, they will be fine. Just don't tell my wife---she will freak out."
BTW, the British NHS doesn't routinely vaccinate for chicken pox. They DO vaccinate when indicated--a person out of childhood that hasn't had chicken pox, or someone with a condition that might make it dangerous. Their rationale is that adults, exposed to children with chicken pox, contract a very mild case--they don't even know they have it. But that mild case acts as a natural "booster" which lessens the likelihood of developing shingles. They think widespread vaccination makes shingles more of a problem in older people.
I don't know; I am an Engineer, not a virologist. But, I don't write them off as crazy.
As a kid, I only got the mumps. I caught chicken pox as an adult from my son. It was no big deal. Never did get the measles even though I was growing up in the 1950s.
You might have Mark. While the medical system maintains that 100% of people got measles spots and symptoms that is just not true. I never got measles spots and symptoms either, but when my children got them, I didn't... there is now a recognition in the medical literature that measles can be subclinical with no symptoms and resultant immunity.
It's the same with polio, chickenpox and hepatitis B. Polio has a 99.98% subclinical infection immunity rate and chickenpox and Hepatitis B both have a 60% subclinical infection immunity rate.
Every day we pick up potential pathogens and simply develop immunity to them.
Yes, I think that is true. Other times I have felt ill for a few hours and then it all went away. That’s what happened to me with Omicron. Stuffy nose for 3 hours that went away and didn’t come back. My famously healthy assistant (15 years and not one sick day!) had exactly the same experience.
Yes, I never officially had chicken pox, but I have the antibodies.
I'm 74, and my experience was similar. Everyone expected to get measles, chicken pox, mumps possibly. What kids were frightened of was polio, and we were bombarded with photos of people in iron lungs, and I remember what a horrifying prospect that was. I just read an article about a man who just died at 78, and he had spent 70 years in an iron lung. His attitude towards life and his accomplishments were stunning: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/texas-man-who-lived-70-years-iron-lung-dies-78-never-gave-up-180979008/
I have had them too. My mom made my sister had them so we were immune.
Ditto
Welcome to Florida! Where we recognize bad ideas and stop them from spreading: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-to-spot-bad-ideas-and-why-we
Shoutout to Ladapo for not bending to the foolishness
Now if they would all stop being dupes and realize that there is no proof that viruses exist or that diseases are contagious, this whole charade would end, but where is the fun, power, and profit in that? Let the arguments from authority and affirming the consequent fallacies begin.
Part of the problem is that kids are no longer allowed to go outside and play in the dirt. Run around, work up a good sweat, get in fights. Roll around in the grass with the bugs and worms. All that builds resistance to disease but if you try to tell that to a modern daughter in law she’d never let you near your grandchildren.
Bingo.....there's a reason they get snotty noses
Spot on. So glad I moved to Florida at the beginning of the c19 abomination
The idiocy going on in our country is astounding. Illegals pouring over the border then bused/flown all over the country defies rational explanation. Anyone who believes the open border policy is a good idea has a severe mental illness.
No promotion if Democrats, the Crisis Party, are in charge
Thank you for shining a light on the green card mandate! The government doesn't just require the COVID vax to apply for a green card, they require a recent booster as well, anyone with an original series from years ago will have to get one!
Also, the mandate extends to babies 6 months old, which also has to be mRNA because Novavax is not available for under-12s.
There is a group on Twitter/X trying to fight this mandate at the account @NoGreenCardVax
Many people are unaware it's in place, because they assume the mandates ended when the public health emergency ended.
More here:
https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/08/immigrants-must-take-the-covid-jab-to-become-american-citizens/
I just read about the increase in TB in California ... and TB is far more serious and deadly than the measles. But sure, keep the border wide open.
Thank you Alex for shedding light on a story that I hadn't heard anything about. Dr. Joseph Ladopo is such an impressive person - I hope that he can get a promotion in January to the Federal level.
As the unofficial spokesman for Florida man.That's a big negatory.Good buddy, we're keeping him here in Florida.We love the guy we ain't letting him go.
Hell yeah!
Perhaps that can happen if Kennedy is elected president. Trump would never appoint Ladapo for any position. Trump continues to spit in our faces and praises the covid jabs even more than the leftists do. Trump still claims his jabs saved 100,000,000 lives which is laughably absurd. The virus was never that fatal.
dr leanna wen pouring her heart out for the childrens is laughable.
she's the former president of planned parenthood, an organization that's literally dedicated to killing children. has to be said, though, that she was terrible at that job for whatever reason and somewhat ironically didn't make it to 9 months.
The CDC is also starting to do nasal swab testing for covid and other respiratory infections in some airports, where international travelers will be asked to participate. Oddly, there's no mention of this nasal intrusion being inflicted on illegals who are being waved in over the border and flown by the Biden government and deposited around the US.
Try to come here legally? Hell it took my nephew over 4 years and he finally gave up! Seems we only welcome illegals!
If you come legally you have to have an active brain in your head...that is frightening to the Biden cartel.
Legal immigrant families must give COVID shots to their infants 6 months old. The U.S. is the only country in the world where 6 month old infants are required to get COVID shots.
For a while foreigners who want to enter the U.S. had to get COVID shots to get their VISA approved. While illegal immigrants never had to get COVID shots to enter the U.S. in the same time period. This was never explained or justified.
It can’t be explained because it’s outrageous nonsense. I
There is truly only one possible explanation. And it’s obvious. Globalist forces without and within our government destroying America for the “greater global good.”
people giving away something for free always has me suspicious. Would you like some candy? Do you want to pet a puppy or kitten?
It is my understanding those alive who had experienced mumps, measles, chicken pox, etc as a child ended up with very healthy and strong immune systems. Believe too experiencing these childhood diseases made it less likely to get cancer as a child. Wouldn’t a child experiencing chicken pox be far less devastating than getting cancer?
You are absolutely correct. this medical article was a dead give-away. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36634620/ The fact is that the same immunological problems occur with all injectable vaccines, not just respiratory ones. The whooping cough vaccine is one of the worst for creating high levels of IgG4 aberrant immunity... people injected with vaccines have a much lower ability to fight cancer and other disorders because their front line immune system hasn't been "educated" in the way that it did with the infections, and results in something called "original antigenic sin."
I believe you’re correct, Miriam.
Stop the measles fear porn. You're now just as guilty as the pro-Covid vaccine journalists. I had it as a kid...no big deal. As did all my siblings. While I do get and appreciate your point about the hypocrisy of it all, you really need to do some research on these childhood sicknesses. And do your research with someone who really knows the data and reality, not with the fear mongering physicians or big pharma. Please. You seem stubbornly opposed to learning more about the sham of childhood vaccines for these formerly common sicknesses. Oh, and in Minnesota where I'm from, they've made a huge deal every time it happens about the unvaccinated Somali immigrant population getting and spreading measles. Except that it happened, the kids got sick, the kids got better, and everything was FINE. But we never hear that part of the story. I appreciate your reporting, but I wish you would wake up to the childhood vaccination scam. Read ONE book by the other side, ok? I recommend "Turtles All The Way Down: vaccine science and myth" to start your primary education.
Exactly BeachGirlSally. Alex is way behind the 8-ball in terms of the bigger picture.
This outbreak does not surprise me, in fact, I’m more surprised we’re not seeing MORE disease outbreaks - of all sorts.
Remember when the first 💩 💩 head, the current 💩 💩 imbecile’s mentor, opened up the border and "children" flooded in and then we had new outbreaks of "mysterious" illness(es) afflicting children around the country - mostly in large urban environs? Then, it faded away, became treatable, stopped being reported…
We use to have health screenings for immigrants, back before we had invaders. Now our health is at risk, our finances are at risk, our jobs are at risk, our economy is at risk, our livelihoods are at risk, our families are at risk, our liberties are at risk, our…
The MMR vaccine does not provide lasting immunity against the wild strain of measles.
People don't like freedom they are used to government leaders telling people how to live their lives. Allowing illegal alien criminals to invade America. You are bringing in all kinds of diseases and problems like crime and drug addiction. I just don't understand why human trafficking is OK and Uncle Joe Robinhood Biden is being allowed to do so.
Bingo. Bondage is default.
We're a history lesson. Specifically the most important and enigmatic lesson; people forget history...often willingly
This federal government has not only failed to protect its citizens, but has, remarkably, increased the peril. And one day -- maybe-- the citizens will start scratching their heads.
was never a FAIL. Its always been INTENTIONAL. This whole why is this happening or worse yet asking what happened is surreal to me
You are correct. The five eyes, China, WEF, all globalists, including so many in our own gov’t, cannot achieve their globalist goals without destroying America. It’s very obvious, and frustrating and sad.
Just crazy Steve how it's not OBVIOUS to all