Today, pro-vaccine propagandists would have you think that measles will wipe out a large number of the population unless everyone receives the MMR vaccine (despite its danger and efficacy challenges!).
Why such hysteria? Apparently, Big Pharma needs more profits, and, perhaps, a reduction in the population is needed to meet the population control quota.
However, compare today’s hysteria with the words of Dr. Alexander Langmuir (1910-1993). Langmuir was the head of the CDC and created its epidemiology section. Regarded as “the father of infectious disease epidemiology,” he called measles a
self-limiting infection of short duration, moderate severity, and low fatality … [1]
Quite a different tone than today. One might suspect that the current narrative has more to do with marketing than with reality.
So, why did Langmuir push the measles vaccine? He writes,
[I]n the United States measles is a disease whose importance is not to be measured by total days disability or number of deaths, but rather by human values and by the fact that tools are becoming available which promise effective control and early eradication.
To those who ask me, “Why do you wish to eradicate measles?,” I reply with the same answer that Hillary used when asked why he wished to climb Mt. Everest. He said, “Because it is there.” To this may be added, “… and it can be done.”[2]
So, while Langmuir pushed the measles vaccine (which, like all vaccines is dangerous and counterproductive), note that he did not say that he wished to eradicate measles with vaccination to save countless lives; but that, “it can be done.”
This, in addition to helping parents avoid seeing their children endure a fever:
[Measles] should still be classed as an important health problem on two main counts. First, any parent who has seen his small child suffer even for a few days with persistant fever of 105° , with hacking cough and delirium wants to see this prevented, if it can be done safely. Second, at last there is promise that something can be accomplished by organized health action.[3]
Note the words, “if it can be done safely” — which vaccination for measles fails to live up to. We do have a public health crisis, but it is not due to measles, but vaccination itself.
Notes
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[1] Langmuir, A. D., Henderson, D. A., Serfling, R. E., & Sherman, I. L., “The importance of measles as a health problem,” American journal of public health and the nation’s health, 52(2)Suppl(Suppl 2) (1962), 1. Retrieved March 30, 2019, from
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1522578/?page=1
[2] Ibid., 3. Retrieved April 1, 2019, from
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1522578/?page=3
[3] Ibid., 1. Retrieved April 1.
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