(September 27, 2015 at 8:02 pm)Mermaid Wrote: This is a frighteningly pervasive phenomenon in our country. I guess it's a symptom of good health, people don't remember or understand what measles is like, nor have they lost family members to smallpox or the flu. If I read one more comment like "If your kid is vaccinated, why are you worried?" or "Measles and the flu aren't bad diseases" the top of my head will pop off.
It's easy to forget how deadly these diseases used to be. How far we've come.
I remember someone saying "I'd rather have an autistic child than a dead one." And they're right. But I don't think people realize just how bad these diseases are, and it's difficult for them to understand because they'll quickly dismiss the decline of these diseases to other things such as hygiene.
