[utherdoul]

while I support using antibiotics and the like to augment our immune systems we’ve grown far too dependent on them. Kids and people used to get dirty and sick on occasion and build up immunity. Now people santize the immune system right out of themselves. By not being exposed to anything if your bodies hit with the right virus or disease it has no defense.

Unless we can develop better medicines thats where the new plagues are going to come from.

[ArmyTeach]

I thought I was the only one thinking that way. I'd rather fight it off and acquire a natural immunity that take an immunization that is a somewhat unknown quantity. Did that with H1N1, which I caught from my son-in-law, who had a confirmed diagnosis from his doctor.

[exDemMom]

while I support using antibiotics and the like to augment our immune systems we’ve grown far too dependent on them. Kids and people used to get dirty and sick on occasion and build up immunity. Now people santize the immune system right out of themselves. By not being exposed to anything if your bodies hit with the right virus or disease it has no defense.

Unless we can develop better medicines thats where the new plagues are going to come from.

I agree, to a point.

I would never suggest that parents withhold vaccinations for highly lethal diseases from their kids (like diphtheria, with ~30% fatality rate), I question the wisdom of vaccinating against relatively benign diseases like chicken pox (6.7 fatalities per 100,000 cases in otherwise healthy individuals). The immune system does need to be challenged to become stronger.