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I think too few people today have memories of life before vaccines. Childhood mortality was high. Complications from disease were high...get measles as a baby, and suffer blindness or deafness. Get polio and not be able to walk. Get diphtheria and choke to death on your own mucous.
Alternative health is a belief system, a form of fundamentalism, and like most fundamentalisms, it longs for a past never existed. It is not science; it has nothing to do with science; and it merely reflects wishful thinking about the past while ignoring reality. For most of human existence, according to fossil and anthropological data, the average human life expectancy was 35 years. As recently as 1900, American average life expectancy was only 48. Longing for a past that never existed « Science-Based Medicine
I think too few people today have memories of life before vaccines. Childhood mortality was high. Complications from disease were high...get measles as a baby, and suffer blindness or deafness. Get polio and not be able to walk. Get diphtheria and choke to death on your own mucous.
Most of the baby boomers grew up with only a few vaccines.
Just what era of history are you thinking of ?
I have never got the flu shot other then the time I was a contractor for the army. They shot us up with just about anything under the sun. Before that I never got a flu shot never saw the point. Then again I don't get sick... I think it's interesting that some people think we need to get said shot. Even more so because they are the first ones to get sick.
Alternative health is a belief system, a form of fundamentalism, and like most fundamentalisms, it longs for a past never existed. It is not science; it has nothing to do with science; and it merely reflects wishful thinking about the past while ignoring reality. For most of human existence, according to fossil and anthropological data, the average human life expectancy was 35 years. As recently as 1900, American average life expectancy was only 48. Longing for a past that never existed « Science-Based Medicine
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