[phoneman08]

With not much in the way of vaccines until the 1960’s, I am shocked that our population did not go to zero. Shocked, I tell you.

Yes, life was so much better when families needed to have as many children as possible in the hope at least some would run the smallpox, polio, diphtheria, mumps, measles, rubella, and other childhood maladies gauntlet to adulthood.

[Jane Long]

Yes, life was so much better when families needed to have as many children as possible in the hope at least some would run the smallpox, polio, diphtheria, mumps, measles, rubella, and other childhood maladies gauntlet to adulthood.

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Nice sanctity for life ya got there, phoney.

/sarc

Only....that wasn’t the reason.

More like a combination of not having the hormone-ladened/birth control pills .... AND....they needed all the extra hands they could get, to work their life-SUSTAINING farms.

What is it with these VPs and such callousness for life?

The “gauntlet” to adulthood? Spit more kids out to beat death odds? Seriously?

Geez.

[SecAmndmt]

Yes, life was so much better when families needed to have as many children as possible in the hope at least some would run the smallpox, polio, diphtheria, mumps, measles, rubella, and other childhood maladies gauntlet to adulthood.

That makes for a good sales pitch for vaccines, but it simply is not true. Most vaccines were introduced a couple decades after the death rates from these viral diseases had started to drop. The death rates were already down 90-95% when the vaccines were introduced. This is because the reductions were a result of public sanitation measures and improved nutrition. How interesting that sufficient daily intake of vitamins A, Bcomplex, C, D3 and some minerals (esp zinc) makes one virtually immune to viral illness.