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Originally Posted by baddog
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Not as old as you for sure, vaccines were available, but my hippy parents didn't trust the system. I am one of 7 kids and we all had measles, chicken pox etc. the hard way, not a single doctor's visit, we all survived and never felt anyone's life was in danger from it.
Because of this thread I did some basic research and while your 1.1 million deaths is alarming, compare that to under 150k in 2013 and I think it's clear that this issue is being addressed.
Even if it wasn't, we have to ask who these people are that are both too ignorant to get one of the cheapest and most widely available vaccines in existence and at the same time too sickly to survive a simple disease that only 2 generations ago was practically a universal right of passage to adulthood. Do we really need that in the gene pool? What if the entire human race was that stupid and defenseless? A simple outbreak of some relatively benign virus could wipe out key elements of society in a short period.
Obviously any death is tragic, and for children moreso, but that doesn't change the fact that 100% of all living people are going to die of something, some sooner than others.
The WHO lists quite a few causes of death that are both more preventable and more deadly than measles, so I stand by my statement that there are better things to panic about right this minute and I am not in a big hurry to stress over whatever CNN thinks I need to be stressing over.