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Ilsa

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3. Timing is about right for the now-adult children of

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Sun Feb 15, 2026, 11:58 AM

Sunday

anti-vaxxers to start getting sick from communicable childhood diseases. Some of those anti-vaxxers may discover they'll never be grandparents if there is an outbreak of mumps, which is covered in the MMR vaccine. Infertility, more likely in post-pubescent males, can be a permanent side effect of orchitis (inflammation of the testicles) which may accompany mumps. Decreased sperm count is also a possibility.