Camus on Nostr: John Stossel: " If your kids were young now, would you give them the measles, the ...

John Stossel: " If your kids were young now, would you give them the measles, the mumps vaccine?"

RFK Jr.: "No. I got measles, mumps when I was a kid..."

John Stossel: "Lots of people die from them used to die from those diseases."

RFK Jr.: "You know what, they died in the nineteen hundreds or early nineteen hundreds. There were about ten thousand Americans a year died. In 1964, there was about three or four hundred who died, and they were almost all, severely malnourished kids, mainly from the Mississippi Delta."

"This is before the poverty program, so there was was a lot of starving children in our country. It's it's very, very hard to kill a healthy child with any infectious disease, but particularly with measles. And the World Health Organization now says vitamin A is a absolute cure for measles, which we didn't know about back then."

"Back then, you know, we were treated with chicken soup, and and it was, you know, a a week at home watching Leave It to Beaver, and every kid caught it. Every single kid got it. And I had 11 brothers and sisters, and we all got it, and we were all fine."

"And there are lots and lots of studies out there now that show that kids who get measles as a child are much healthier when they grow up, that they're much more resistant to cancers, to atopic diseases, to allergies, and to, and to heart disease."