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stopdiggin

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7. "stupid then - stupid now" sums it up nicely.

Sun Mar 2, 2025, 01:19 PM

Mar 2025

Your 'granny' also smoked (and drank) during pregnancy - refused to use a seat belt or car seat, while smoking up a storm w/ young passengers in the car - routinely left children in the car while 'popping in' to the shops - and left the potato salad out from early morning on, before serving at church picnic in late afternoon.

And in fact - some of us DID die ... But ya know ... Thoughts and prayers ...

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Texas official warns against "measles parties" as outbreak keeps growing 20 people have been hospitalized. [View all] FSogol Mar 2025 OP

Official warnings will just ensure that the MAGATs actually have them, then when some of the children die, they'll blame Celerity Mar 2025 #1

Imagine having to be told to not expose your child to a potentially deadly disease. Solly Mack Mar 2025 #2

It wasn't stupid "then". Measles is so contagious that everyone was going to contract it marybourg Mar 2025 #4

How beneficial was it to those who died? Those who became deaf? Encephalitis/convulsion that lead to brain damage? Solly Mack Mar 2025 #6

Young children are at risk. Teens and adults are at greater risk. marybourg Mar 2025 #9

Nothing you've said makes it any less a stupid thing to do. Solly Mack Mar 2025 #12

Well, clearly we are much smarter than the generations marybourg Mar 2025 #13

We actually do know more now about diseases. You get that there is no correlation between winning a war and people Solly Mack Mar 2025 #16

you mean the bunch that chain smoked cigarettes stopdiggin Mar 2025 #21

It was absolutely moronic. Both then and now. stopdiggin Mar 2025 #14

"stupid then - stupid now" sums it up nicely. stopdiggin Mar 2025 #7

Thank you. I get so tired of those memes that go around talking about what kids used to do and can't now. Solly Mack Mar 2025 #10

Because back in the day, that was how parents thought they could stop an epidemic from continuing. haele Mar 2025 #15

I'm not changing what I said. Solly Mack Mar 2025 #18

The "parties" thing only sort of worked for the Chicken Pox. Hugin Mar 2025 #19

My mother did that with my two middle siblings. This was before I was born. When they talked about it Solly Mack Mar 2025 #22

I remember a discussion some of my older relatives had back in the day... Hugin Mar 2025 #27

Oh, don't get me started on people who refuse to vaccinate their children. Solly Mack Mar 2025 #31

I agree with you. haele Mar 2025 #20

They went with what they understood, which wasn't always a lot. Hard to combat "folk" wisdom sometimes. Solly Mack Mar 2025 #23

The problem with that is that by the time someone is sick with measles Mariana Mar 2025 #24

If all the anti-vaxxers die off in the next hundred years, is it still "natural selection" even though drug companies... EarnestPutz Mar 2025 #3

They won't die off. Most people survive these diseases. Mariana Mar 2025 #25

I was thinking more about the upcoming, new-and-improved super-covid. EarnestPutz Mar 2025 #32

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