@ABX @Smokin Joe
Two different opinions. Of course one is in line with mine.
I will reiterate...when I was a kid...if you got the measles...the world didn't shut down with "OH MY GOD...THEY ARE GONNA DIE!!!" You stayed home from school and got well. I never knew anyone that died from measles.
So I am stuck with my original opinion, we are wrecking our immune systems.
I don't doubt we are wrecking our immune systems. They're so bored they attack the people who have them.
Kids used to step barefoot in poo (not ideal, it sucked, but it happened), get skinned up, bruised, exposed to all sorts of germs. We got covered with dirt, mud, and worse, we fell in the creek (sometimes accidentally on purpose), climbed trees, ate berries off the plant or fruit right off the tree, caught tadpoles and frogs and snakes, and did all sorts of grubby kid things.
Now, life is too sterilized for all that. (Admittedly, there are some germs out there you don't want to catch, but the others that weren't lethal, that built immune systems up, are getting sanitized away, too.
Nutrition isn't as good as it used to be, despite all the science involved now, because the food just isn't the same quality as I recall. (We grew our own a lot more then, or it was local and picked fresh, not picked green, shipped in, and force ripened with ethylene).
But part of my point was that the deaths aren't taking place in the US. These deaths are happening elsewhere where not only are people imunocompromised, but often under nourished and suffering from God knows what else.
Measles were just a sort of rite of passage for us as kids, just a half century ago, (back when almost no one was allergic to peanuts).