I feel like saying a big effing FU to those that doubted me.  Now I am vindicated by science.

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious46? No wait that's only 11 characters longer. Never mind

...most have probably had MMR shots and boosters; we came of age in a time when there weren't vaccine exemptions. These exemptions are recent developments that have only taken hold in the last 10 years or so.  

Disney hires foreigners to work at their theme parks.

and is patient zero an immigrant?  

ut I'm pretty sure RT is patient Zero for the run of SPOTY candidates this place has had...

I was in Disney (orlando) several years ago and I was shocked at how many International workers they had working there.

The median age of infected patients is over 20, and not all of those were part of the anti-vaccination movement, whose adherents deliberately forego vaccines out of fear that they will cause more harm than good. At least six people diagnosed with measles got their measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, and all but two of them got the standard two-shot sequence.

Disney does have a history of employing foreigners at their theme parks. Considering foreigners most likely would not have received a vaccination from the measles. The probability that the source of the outbreak was an unvaccinated immigrant Disney employee.

So, why the red herring here? Unless international Disneyland workers are working as escorts, I don't see what this has to do with anything.  

...people that have them might not even know they have them. Talk about a surprise when your wife ends up with HPV, chlamydia, or PID because you were asymptomatic for an STI and had unprotected sex with her. This is nothing like measles.  you have measles, you know it. Plus, measles is an airborne virus, meaning you don't have to have intimate contact with someone in order to be exposed. STIs are, well, sexually transmitted.  

Maybe you should get vaccinated.

Finally! Someone who makes sense on this board. I was waiting to hear about zombies and the relationship between bbbjs and becoming a zombie. That would make about as much sense.  

I hate to respond to RT, but the real issue here is that the reason the immunization system in America works is the concept of "Herd Immunity".  (Google it!) The unspoken reality is that the vast majority of the US population is immunized, and what this REALLY does is protect the entire (herd) of the population more than any one immunized individual.  This means that people who have been immunized for measles (MMR) can and do still get the disease when exposed.  But, the fact that 97%, or so, are immunized means that it is very hard for the disease to attack the entire population.  The issue is that as more and more people "opt out" of the immunization, the entire population (the herd) also becomes more and more at risk.  It is generally believed that the magic number for when the entire population is at risk by those who opt out of the vaccine is about 88% for measles (likely somewhere between 82% and 94%).  This means that at some point if 6 to 18% of our population opts out of their MMR vaccine, we will all be at serious risk -- even those of us who had the vaccine!  (These percentages vary by disease based upon how each is spread.)

Measles is not always a benign disease. It can cause pneumonia, encephalitis, and permanent brain damage. The older you are when you get it it the more likely you are to have a severe form.

Or at least for Ohio. Patient zero was an Amish missionary.

So no one in Ohio fuck any Amish hookers LMAO! And hopefully RT won't try to fuck a hooker wearing an Amish wedding dress.

The text said the Amish person was a Missionary returning from the Philippines. Again, this outbreak can be attributed to an immigration/international travel issue. Who knew the Amish were international hobbyists? I wasn't blaming immigrants for the outbreak, I'm only listing them as the vector for the current outbreak of the virus.  

Oftentimes, those complications arise in those that are already immune compromised, like children and the elderly, and in people who don't have access to proper medical care, like those who encounter measles in developing nations.  So yes. complications do have a chance to arise, but those complications are incredibly rare in a developed nation's healthy adult population.

It wasn't as bad as the time I had chicken pox, but it was pretty awful. I'm sure it's not as bad as HIV though.