They really aren't that big of a deal, much smaller a health risk than any number of other activities we engage in every day. The extent to which Americans have become neurotic and wussified about such things is captured in this collection of measles references from television back in the day:
But of course, I've forgotten that the mantra of modern society is that any indignity or transgression is justified "if it saves just one life." Apropos, the California legislature is taking steps toward forcing parents to inject their children with the chemical cocktails prepared by the medical-pharmaceutical complex, verifying the neo-pagan outlook that we are animals and must be kept physically healthy and vigorous (no matter how degraded).
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