Reply #9: You see those in New England [View All]

[Warpy]

One man, three to five women in succession, every woman accompanied by the tiny headstones of children who died from those usual childhood diseases until the last pregnancy finally killed her.

I lost a playmate to measles. I bloody nearly died, too. The vaccines weren't available in the early 1950s.

The reason life expectancy was so low until the last century is because so many of us died in childhood from diseases we now have the ability to prevent with a simple inoculation.

People who rail against vaccines simply don't have a clue what they're talking about.