From: imbibe@mindspring.com   
      
    Keith Willshaw wrote:   
   >  David P wrote:   
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   > > Didn't have so many vaccines back then, too. We got measles, mumps,   
   > > chicken pox, flu, etc. Just because we can do something doesn't mean   
   > > the benefits will outweigh the costs in perpetuity. Plenty of cases didn't:   
   > > lead paint, radium paint, leaded gas, asbestos, CFCs, DDT, Thalidomide,   
   > > PFAs, and most probably: extending life spans artificially by suppressing   
   > > communicable diseases.   
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   > Well back in the 60's at school I got vaccinated against polio,   
   > smallpox, measles, rubella, whooping cough etc and we had pretty well   
   > wiped out tuberculosis with antibiotics. Polio was big problem back then   
   > there was one hospital in town that purely handed those cases. There was   
   > a remedial class in our elementary school that was specially set up for   
   > those kids in leg irons after having had polio.   
   > My mother was a nurse and made darned sure we all got vaccinated. We are   
   > all still here and we only lost our mum last year at the age of 96.   
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   Well the benefits are well-known, but the actual costs are NOT!   
   You have to read in order to know what the costs and consequences are,   
   and most people aren't reading, so they think that "Anything goes!",   
   "Numbers don't matter!", and "No limits!".   
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