Reply #100: I lived before vaccines, so I probably have a better idea than you of how it was. [View All]

[Hannah Bell]

I don't have a problem with childhood vaccines, but the reaction of some - "report them for child abuse" - is ridiculous. and yes, everyone did it, unless they kept their kid in a closet so he'd never be exposed, in which case they were doing him a disservice, because it was MUCH more dangerous to get chicken pox as a teen or adult. Parents WANTED their kids to get it young, & 99.5% of the time it went without complications.

Childhood deaths & injuries from cars = 100s of times higher.

"Prior to the introduction of vaccine in 1995 in the US (released in 1988 in Japan & Korea), there were around 4,000,000 cases per year in the U.S., mostly children, with typically 100 or fewer deaths. Though mostly children caught it, the majority of deaths (by as much as 80%) were among adults."