Anti-Vax Wisdom: Aspirin Cures Polio

[rogue06]

I know. I was just wondering if he had any of those nasty diseases to tell Goofus about.

Jed's almost old enough to remember when the Black Death rolled through.

[TheLurch]

I can't be bothered to read through all 13 pages (my apologies) but has there been an explanation of why, as hygiene gradually improved over time, the vanishing of specific diseases occurred at very different times? And that said times correlated with the introduction of vaccines?

To be a bit more specific, why did people stop getting measles before they stopped getting chicken pox? What magical development from the world of hygiene occurred in the 60s, and what in the 90s, to cause their disappearance? And why don't either of them work against the flu virus?

That, it seems, would be a bare minimum information required before we decide to ignore Occam's razor and discard the simplest explanation.

Again, my apologies if this has already come up.

[JonathanL]

Jed's almost old enough to remember when the Black Death rolled through.

Based on the fact that Jed is old enough to call Mossy a "Sweet Young Thing" I think you're grossly underestimating Jed's real age.

[DesertBerean]

I can't be bothered to read through all 13 pages (my apologies) but has there been an explanation of why, as hygiene gradually improved over time, the vanishing of specific diseases occurred at very different times? And that said times correlated with the introduction of vaccines?

To be a bit more specific, why did people stop getting measles before they stopped getting chicken pox? What magical development from the world of hygiene occurred in the 60s, and what in the 90s, to cause their disappearance? And why don't either of them work against the flu virus?

That, it seems, would be a bare minimum information required before we decide to ignore Occam's razor and discard the simplest explanation.

Again, my apologies if this has already come up.

That was touched on, but not as in depth as you did.

[Jedidiah]

Did you get any vaccine preventable diseases when you were a youngster?

Oh yeah, lots. And I still get the Flu vaccine.

[Christianbookworm]

Oh yeah, lots. And I still get the Flu vaccine.

Which ones? The flu doesn't count. Neither does chicken pox, for that was relatively recent(I was born before it and got the chicken pox when I was little).

[Jedidiah]

Smallpox, measles, mumps, and polio were the ones I recall. I did chicken pox also plus got the shingles vaccine recently.

[Christianbookworm]

Smallpox, measles, mumps, and polio were the ones I recall. I did chicken pox also plus got the shingles vaccine recently.

You had smallpox??? Didn't they have vaccines for that already???

[Jedidiah]

You had smallpox??? Didn't they have vaccines for that already???

My bad, I misunderstood. I got vaccines for all those not the diseases. I got no diseases that had vaccines at the time. Chicken pox and mumps were the only diseases I had as a child. Before the vaccines.