We'd go back to having childhood mortality rates as high as they were in Victorian times, where few were the families who didn't lose a child (often multiple children) to diseases that are now preventable with a vaccine, like measles, whooping cough, diphtheria. https://twitter.com/Jimcorrsays/status/1143456192108421121 …
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We were not "meant" to get "mild childhood diseases." Nature doesn't give a rodent's posterior about us or our children. Nature indifferently kills us and our children with disease. So if science finds a means to reduce or eliminate that toll, there is no reason not to use it.
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OK, maybe child mortality rates wouldn't go quite as high as they were in Victorian times. After all, we have antibiotics, better medical care, and clean water now. They would still skyrocket, though, if we stopped routinely vaccinating for diseases for which we vaccinate now.
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