We used to invite infected children over. We'd have a party!
The mothers, who were of course immune, brought their healthy children over to play with the sick and lonely children. The sick and lonely children were not well enough to go to school, but well enough to play. Some mothers brought several children, thinking it would be best for all their children to get the virus at the same time so that they could just get it over with. It was, after all, a simple affair of an itchy rash and sometimes a fever.
The parents were already immune. They'd been taken to measles parties by their mothers back when they were tiny tots themselves, and they'd get covered with itchy spots and their mothers would holler "Stop itching!" Calamine lotion was a big help. The children looked funny with their pink spots.
Sometimes the mothers would cook a pot of oatmeal, put it in the bathtub, and into the bath the itching children would go. Children who hated taking baths would love these oatmeal baths because the baths stopped the itching much better than smelly calamine lotion did, and they could sleep a little.
Relief!
Soon enough, the itching stopped and the rashes faded. The best part was that all those children didn't have to worry about getting the measles again their whole life long. The same was true about the mumps and the chicken pox. The illnesses were uncomfortable but did not last very long, and could never be caught again.
Then vaccines were invented, some of which controlled outbreaks of terrible diseases such as polio and smallpox, and the drug companies saw a money-making opportunity. Big Pharma started making vaccines for every illness imaginable, even the measles.
At first this seemed a great idea; why not prevent children from getting sick if a simple needle jab would do that? Parents would miss less work, children would miss less school, and it would be easier for everyone, including doctors, who would have less work.
Our schools and media told us that the medical community could be trusted, that their vaccines were perfectly safe. We started thinking that the measles were as bad as polio and smallpox. We were told, over and over, that the vaccines would save thousands of lives.
We stopped laughing.
We forgot.
Because we had been made afraid, we started trusting the very entities that would make many billions of dollars on our fear, the vaccine makers themselves.
"Don't worry about the vaccines, be afraid of the viruses!"
Many children are now sick with horrible diseases our children rarely got when we let them get the measles, such as auto-immunity, diabetes, sudden death syndrome and autism.
Medical ethics holds that if there is evidence that a medical treatment may be in any way dangerous, even if the evidence is inconclusive, we must investigate.
Let's demand that of our medical community, because now we fear both the viruses and the vaccines.
There used to be an easy-to-find clip of a Brady Bunch episode, in which all the kids get the measles. This episode has become very difficult to find now, because it does not support the lies about the measles that we are now being told by the medical commmunity, schools and media, so we are being denied access to it. But I did find this analysis of measles and our understanding of the illness today, and you can see bits of the Brady Bunch episode in this short and excellent video by Forrest Maready:
For writers, this task has enormous value.
Please join us!
You must write a story in which the sentences are of a particular randomly decided length.
This week the order is
7, 4, 20, 18, 31, 15, 5, 30, 6, 8, 23, 29, 1, 9, 21, 11, 16, 25, 12, 22, 24, 19, 13, 14, 3, 2, 26, 10, 28, 27, 17
The prompt for this edition has to do with the effect of "speaking or acting as if something is true leads to people accepting it without question." I knew immediately what story I would tell, because the issue of medical tyranny taking over our right to self determination is of high priority to me.
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