Laura Ingraham’s astonishing ignorance: “I just don’t think (measles) is that big of a deal”

[KamaAina]

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/02/laura_ingrahams_astonishing_ignorance_i_just_dont_think_measles_is_that_big_of_a_deal/

On Monday morning, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham said she doesn’t think measles is “that big of a deal,” defending New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s remarks that it should be the parents’ choice whether or not to vaccinate their kids. The remarks were made in the wake of a measles outbreak which began in Anaheim, Calif.’s Disneyland, and has infected 84 people in 14 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Ingraham said:

“Measles is fairly manageable… Measles is not generally a deadly disease. I’m not saying anyone wants to get measles but I know a bunch of kids in our school growing up had measles, and chicken pox, measles. I mean we just got this! It wasn’t a big end of the world… I mean we’re making it out to be this big deal. I just don’t think it’s that big of a deal.”

The thing is that measles can be serious — extremely serious — especially if the infected person has a compromised immune system. According to the CDC, 28 percent of children under the age of five who contracted measles from 2001-2013 had to be treated in the hospital. The CDC also notes that measles can lead to pneumonia, permanent brain damage, deafness and death.

This woman went to Dartmouth?!

[irisblue]

1. And my brother is deaf....

from those dumb asses.... measles can/has affect hearing....I was 5 when Measles followed me home in 1962..pre vac time.

[3catwoman3]

2. Despite her Dartmouth degree...

...I don't think Laura Ingraham is that bright "of a" (sic) woman. (I guess she wasn't an English major or an epidemiology major.)

[NaturalHigh]

3. Nah - it just kills people.

[NickB79]

4. It kills a quarter million people a year globally

Fuck you, you brain-dead fuck.

[4now]

5. So anti-vaxers have Paul and Ingraham on their side.

[KamaAina]

11. Don't forget Krispy Kreme.

[IcyPeas]

6. she is a breast cancer survivor too....

I wonder if there was a vaccine against that if she'd get it?

[Ilsa]

7. meningitis, encephalitis, blindness, death, etc aren't serious enough

for that stupid RW bitch?

[CanonRay]

8. Did any of these right wingers

ever take a science class? The stupidity is epidemic.

[elias49]

9. She doesn't know the difference between measles

and German measles. Sure, lots of kids got German measles when I was in grade school - 1960ish - Not the so-called hard measles. More ignorance from Fox.

[UTUSN]

10. Here's her, convert to Jesus/Catholicism, spirituality, goodness - that's what comes to mind

Yeah, she adopted Russian orphans AND is a cancer survivor or something. NOTHING WILL SAVE HER FROM HER HORRIBLENESS.

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