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There is research showing that a measles infection can cause immune amnesia wiping out "11-73% of the different antibodies that protect against viral and bacterial strains a person was previously immune to."

Ah nature, the one who has mastered not giving any fucks.

Link: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/10/how-measles-wipes-out-the-bodys-immune-memory/

Edit: Related research https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1009071

By the way, this isn't because of "redneck, right-wing anti-vaxxers" - I know at least two, very Left-wing Bernie-supporters who have entirely refused to vaccinate any of their kids.

This is what happens when people stop feeling like they can trust the medical establishment.

COVID misinformation was damaging, yes, but there was an incredible amount of just flat-out horrible messaging from Experts who should have known better.

Take Vitamin D. Take it every day during the winter months, especially if you have darker skin.

Basic, utterly basic, yet crucial medical advice that no one with a credible public voice was saying.

And that's without getting into things like the rabid politicalization of medicine or the long-standing Reproducibility Crisis that has dogged a host of the soft sciences for over a decade.

As we've come to learn, especially over this pandemic, is that being an "expert" does not mean that you are a) a good person b) acting altruistic intentions c) acting without bias or influence or d) actually an expert

And it started long before the pandemic. Go and watch Merchants of Doubt and then ask yourself "Why, oh why, are people not trusting the experts anymore?"