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turbinetree

(24,631 posts)
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 01:06 PM Dec 2019

Fox News Woman: 'Measles Is Not A Big Deal To Me At All'

It’s an insignificant disease, and I think it’s stupid that people are making such a big deal out of it.”
By Ed Scarce

Media Bites 12/28/19 5:00am
Read time: 1 minute

An interesting choice for an alleged news broadcaster. Air a segment with a woman who's woefully ignorant of the dangers that measles poses to the public and not bother to contradict her, but that's Fox News for you.

Source: Mediaite

After being told about a potential measles outbreak at five major US airports, one woman at an airport shrugged off concerns to Fox News, telling the network that it’s an “insignificant disease” and “not a big deal.”

“Measles is not a big deal to me at all,” the woman said. “When I was a child I had the measles. It’s an insignificant disease, and I think it’s stupid that people are making such a big deal out of it.”

Though immunization helped drastically curb the disease, measles killed more than 140,000 people in 2018 alone, according to the World Health Organization– most of which were young children.

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/12/fox-news-woman-measles-not-big-deal-me-all

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Fox News Woman: 'Measles Is Not A Big Deal To Me At All' (Original Post) turbinetree Dec 2019 OP
Well then she should really enjoy shingles. milestogo Dec 2019 #1
Right there w/You. I was too young for the vaccination. bitterross Dec 2019 #3
Me too. milestogo Dec 2019 #8
I'm going into my third month with shingles and still have terrible pain. Going back to Dr. middle monmouth4 Dec 2019 #4
Shingles is from having had chicken pox. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2019 #6
OOps. But my statement stands. milestogo Dec 2019 #7
I am due for my second shingles shot in January. I am only in my 50's but I have heard too smirkymonkey Dec 2019 #12
Yup! shanti Dec 2019 #19
The first time I heard of it was when I was college age and a friend's father milestogo Dec 2019 #21
Shingles is chickenpox. I had that and measles leftyladyfrommo Dec 2019 #11
I had measles and it was bad. Mariana Dec 2019 #13
And subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. Aristus Dec 2019 #17
You really need to drop that fake title for the RW propaganda network malaise Dec 2019 #2
This lady is an idiot Gothmog Dec 2019 #5
whoa..not too smart Demovictory9 Dec 2019 #9
twitter is on it. she will get a twitter education about the measles Demovictory9 Dec 2019 #10
What an idiot. smirkymonkey Dec 2019 #16
I had measles when I was six. Dale Neiburg Dec 2019 #26
omg. glad you survived Demovictory9 Dec 2019 #29
She's confusing measles and rubella, I bet. nt. Mariana Dec 2019 #14
My guess, as well. Ms. Toad Dec 2019 #20
My grandmother lost a baby because she got rubella. Mariana Dec 2019 #24
Yup. Ms. Toad Dec 2019 #30
I had the measles vaccine, but for me it didn't work. Mariana Dec 2019 #32
Rupert Murdoch at Work Kid Berwyn Dec 2019 #15
This woman is callous and ignorant but, Disaffected Dec 2019 #18
Well, this is how I look at it. Blue_true Dec 2019 #22
Well it's their funeral. Initech Dec 2019 #23
Maybe this is how we thin the herd. I'm glad it will start at Fox. Vinca Dec 2019 #25
She means 'insignificant' as in when someone else's child dies. keithbvadu2 Dec 2019 #27
So a guy gets together with his gf PCIntern Dec 2019 #28
A single traveler from New Zealand brought Measles to Samoa in August... SidDithers Dec 2019 #31
 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
3. Right there w/You. I was too young for the vaccination.
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 01:16 PM
Dec 2019

I got shingles before I was of the age that my insurance company would cover the cost of the vaccination. It was not a fun time.

If people don't know, the shingles rash generally follows along a nerve path. Which is why it's so painful when you touch it. Mine was across my abdomen and right side. I made the mistake of scratching the itch before I knew what it was. BIG mistake.

milestogo

(16,829 posts)
8. Me too.
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 02:42 PM
Dec 2019

I had blisters on my upper chest, one side only. I was talking to a friend and she told me it was probably shingles, which I didn't know anything about. So by the time I got to urgent care for the antiviral it was too late to be effective.

Very hard not to scratch. I remember having a pharmacist walk me through the whole OTC section looking for something topical for the pain and the only thing we could find was something you spray on a burn.

monmouth4

(9,663 posts)
4. I'm going into my third month with shingles and still have terrible pain. Going back to Dr. middle
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 01:16 PM
Dec 2019

of Jan. Hope she never has to suffer this awfulness.

milestogo

(16,829 posts)
7. OOps. But my statement stands.
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 02:39 PM
Dec 2019

I got shingles when I was 58 and the vaccine wasn't available to anyone under 60. Now they've changed that.

I've had chicken pox, I've had measles, and I've had shingles. I can only remember the absolute misery of shingles. But I would never NOT get a vaccine for a viral disease where they had a good one.

Exception: This year I got the flu instead of the flu vaccine. When I went to the pharmacy and asked for it in early November, they were out. I got the flu before they got the vaccine.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
12. I am due for my second shingles shot in January. I am only in my 50's but I have heard too
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 03:29 PM
Dec 2019

many horror stories about the affliction to leave it up to chance. That is one thing that I don't ever want to go through. Thanks to everyone on this board who has warned us. If it wasn't for you, I would have never known to ask for it.

shanti

(21,670 posts)
19. Yup!
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 05:12 PM
Dec 2019

I learned about it here too and got my series last year. DU is loaded with informative people.

milestogo

(16,829 posts)
21. The first time I heard of it was when I was college age and a friend's father
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 05:34 PM
Dec 2019

had to miss her wedding because he had shingles. I could only imagine it must have been pretty awful for him to have to do that.

malaise

(267,784 posts)
2. You really need to drop that fake title for the RW propaganda network
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 01:15 PM
Dec 2019

It is Fox Views not Fox News - every time you say it or write it, you give them credibility

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
16. What an idiot.
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 04:14 PM
Dec 2019

A selfish idiot. She obviously doesn't care whether anyone else suffers from the disease. As long as she got through it ok. Typical Fox republican.

Dale Neiburg

(694 posts)
26. I had measles when I was six.
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 07:07 PM
Dec 2019

The doctor later told my parents I hd the worst case he had ever seen in which the patient survived. In fact, we learned years later that he had already made out my death certificate with only the date and time left blank, since he thought it was a foregone conclusion that I wouldn't recover.

Last year, almost 70 years later, I had a titer test done for measles. It came back at ">300." My body remembers measles virus after all those years and is still ready to take it on, and take no prisoners.

Ms. Toad

(33,915 posts)
20. My guess, as well.
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 05:18 PM
Dec 2019

Since its non-medical name is German measles. It's only a big deal if you are pregnant, and then only for your in utero child.

Mariana

(14,847 posts)
24. My grandmother lost a baby because she got rubella.
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 06:14 PM
Dec 2019

I had rubella when I was little, and it was nothing. I had measles, too, and that was a very different story.

Ms. Toad

(33,915 posts)
30. Yup.
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 11:35 PM
Dec 2019

I had rubella when I was little - barely noticed it. It wasn't formally diagnosed at the time - but since I had to be tested later for immunity, we confirmed that I had actually had it. Never had the measles. Won't since I'm vaccinated.

Mariana

(14,847 posts)
32. I had the measles vaccine, but for me it didn't work.
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 11:52 PM
Dec 2019

I caught measles from an unvaccinated person, in 1973. So I know, first-hand, that the anti-vaxxers aren't only endangering themselves and their children.

Disaffected

(4,503 posts)
18. This woman is callous and ignorant but,
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 04:40 PM
Dec 2019

even more so that some may realize.

Just listened to an interview with a Harvard Medical researcher who has studied the effects of measles on the immune system. It has been discovered that the acute deleterious effects of measles are outweighed substantially by the damage caused by the virus to the immune system. Antibodies to many pathogens built up over our life span preceding the measles infection are significantly damaged, along with the immune system cells themselves, such that the subsequent mortality from measles is as much as five times higher than immediate mortality from the measles virus itself. Such damage can furthermore extend over one's life-time.

So, take the current measles mortality of about 140,000 deaths per year (mostly children BTW) and multiply it by five...

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
22. Well, this is how I look at it.
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 05:44 PM
Dec 2019

The world is already over-populated. Get yourself vaccinated, have all kids in your family vaccinated and work to protect vulnerable people that can't be vaccinated. Stupid people? Let nature cull them and improve the human gene pool.

PCIntern

(25,341 posts)
28. So a guy gets together with his gf
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 07:25 PM
Dec 2019

And they’re gonna do it for the first time. When he takes off his shoes and socks and his toes are gnarly and weird andshe screams, Oh my God, what’s wrong with your toes?? He replies: When I was young I had Toelio. She says: I thought it was called polio. Anyway, he takes off his pants and she screams again when she sees his knees which are all full of sores and bumpy: what is wrong with your knees? He replies, when I was young I had kneesles. She replies, I thought it was called measles. So next he takes off his underpants and she says: O ho! Now you’re gonna tell me you had smallcox, right??

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
31. A single traveler from New Zealand brought Measles to Samoa in August...
Sat Dec 28, 2019, 11:45 PM
Dec 2019

4 months later, there have been more than 5,600 cases and 81 deaths.

All from a single traveler.

Measles is one of the most contagious virus' known to man.

That woman is a fucking idiot.

Sid

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