Measles

[Allen]

About all you hear today other than Trump being bashed for something. What's the big deal? When I was young everyone got it at least once. I got the Chicken Pox, German Measles and a couple of other types. Everyone had a turn. All it took was for one infected kid to arrive at school and there you were.

Over time we mostly eliminated it. When my kids were young they each caught the Chicken Pox from someone at the daycare center but never the Measles.

I remember the symptoms making you very sick and producing a spotted red rash on the skin.

I know the illegals are bringing back many of the viruses we had eliminated like TB but unless this is a new strain I don't see all the hype on this. It's not as if 'Ol Typhoid Mary is back or anything.

[lyman]

I don’t recall if I ever had the measles, I did have the mumps as a kid and the chicken pox in college

None of which was a big deal

[Former Cav]

ha ha. I was 18 years old and in the US Army. I was a tanker MOS assigned to an infantry company, and was a glorified TOWER guard around a small nike base in SO Korea. We worked 9 days on for first shift, 3 days off (don't believe it, they found "details for us to do"), 9 days 2nd shift, 3 days off, and 3rd shift..... etc.
I got the German measles and our whole barracks (a platoon) was quaranteened for like a month. This really raised hell with the scheduling, but then we had to make up for the other platoons as they got it too. We also could not go down to the local village for THREE months as they didn't want us to contaminate the local Koreans. (probably would have killed them for all we know).
That was my 15 seconds of "fame" ha ha.

[Johnny P]

Measles are highly communicable and highly contagious, and could affect a large part of the population if not kept in check.