I pit Stephanie Messenger, the author of the children’s book “Melanie’s Marvelous Measles”, a book which teaches children that having measles is wonderful. “history shows that in industrialized countries, these diseases are quite benign and, according to natural health sources, beneficial to the body”.
Moron.
I love the first five star review of that book:
I had to snip it for brevity because he goes through the whole alphabet, even including “Vivian’s Voluminous Vaginitis”.
Deafness.
That’s a pretty fun one. I hope Melanie likes losing her hearing.
“Hey Melanie! Wasn’t having measles fun!!! I SAID HEY MELANIE!!! HEY!!!”
You are Too Kind.
Fucking Ignorant Moron. Or a Poe We Don’t Need. Hard to tell.
You’re wasting your time. Melanie isn’t deaf, she’s very dead.
Doranie’s Delightful Death.
You get to stay home from school and play for a week! What’s to complain about?
Gary’s Glorious Gonorrhea
Fever takes half the fun out of it and itching takes the rest.
But it was fun to run around chasing your sister and threatening to hug her.
I guess the main advantage to having measles is that you can’t get measles again, which is a good thing, because measles is pretty horrible. If you haven’t seen it, here’s Roald Dahl’s brief letter about his daughter, Olivia, and the measles.
https://roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/timeline/1960s/november-1962
Stephanie Messenger, in addition to writing that marvellous book, was also involved in promoting/organizing the ill-fated Australian tour of of antivax osteopath Sherri Tenpenny. The planned tour collapsed after venues that were supposed to host the event canceled (it’s been reported that they were told that events were about “child health” or involved a SIDS charity rather than antivax activities), and Messenger claimed there were threats against the safety of attendees from those who were “anti-free speech”.
It turns out there was a bomb threat, but it was revealed to be from an antivax loon who was upset about potential cancellation of one of Tenpenny’s appearances.
Apparently lying and deception are A-OK, if it’s for the antivax cause.
Unless you’re my brother’s exceptionally unfortunate school friend, who had it 4 times before leaving school, presumably due to a glitchy immune system. He had been vaccinated as well… Luckily he didn’t wind up with any severe side effects.
It can happen, which is one of the reasons these antisocial psychopaths are so dangerous. A relative contracted chicken pox twice, something his incredulous pediatrician insisted was totes unpossible. I have had chicken pox zero times, because they invented a vaccine for it. Nonetheless, I’m not happy about the fact that some deranged lunatic may expose me to the virus because of their stupidity. I’d rather not risk the slight possibility of contracting the disease as an adult.
Stephanie’s Stupendous Stupidity
Messenger’s Malodorous Madness
What takes that book beyond idiocy into unbelievable meanness is that its title is a play on Dahl’s book George’s Marvellous Medicine. You know, that guy whose daughter died of measles. Hah hah, get it?
Dahl already has a perfectly good title for a book about anti-vaxxers…
Other reviews:
“This is an excellent book for children! It gets children used to the idea of being maimed for life or dying outright due to preventable diseases thanks to their parents not loving them enough to learn even the rudimentary aspects of basic science,”
“While small, this book can serve as a tiny death mask.”
“As a carpenter who specializes in itty bitty coffins I can’t say enough good things about this book”
God damn it, I cried 
Is the measles vaccine really not required for schoolchildren in the UK?
You DO know that Olivia Dahl died in 1962? And that the measles vaccine was invented in 1963 and was licensed in the UK in 1968, and that the MMR vaccine was licensed in 1988?
Irrelevant to the (valid) point you’re making, I know, but this didn’t sound right, and upon checking Wikipedia, I see “The three vaccines (for mumps, measles, and rubella) were combined in 1971 to become the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine.”