Measles Is Not a Joke
Measles is a benign disease for healthy children. Those who die have health issues or malnourished. Regardless, I was discussing the absurdity of giving so many vaccines so young, not caring about the high risk for complications. There are better ways to do it.
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Overview
This meme is structured in two parts: the top section is a screenshot of a social media post from a verified X (Twitter) user identifying as a doctor, claiming that measles is a benign disease for healthy children, dismissing measles deaths as only impacting children with preexisting health conditions or malnutrition, and spreading misinformation claiming that routine early childhood vaccination carries high complication risks. The bottom section uses a popular reaction image of the character Morty Smith from the animated show Rick and Morty, shown yelling in frustrated outrage, with overlaid text comparing the poster to Hitler, stating that even Hitler cared about his own country, as a harsh condemnation of the harmful anti-vaccine claims in the post above.
Origin notes
This meme was sourced from an RSS feed for the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, where it was shared to mock and criticize widely debunked anti-vaccine misinformation. It is a derivative work that combines a screenshot of a controversial social media post with a widely used pre-existing reaction meme template from the Rick and Morty series.
