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[quote=Anonymous]This story was so, so heartbreaking.  What a tragedy, what pathos. The author is a beautiful writer, but the tragedy is the child, and there are others with mothers without this gift which is the haunting part.

I think people forget that when Europeans came to the new world, they brought measles, smallpox and influenza and there was no immunity by the population who had not seen these diseases.  Without vaccines, literally 80-95% of the population died.  Natural immunity does not work.  In Europe at the time, virtually everyone got smallpox and ~30% died.  Many died of measles.

How anyone would prefer that life to shot is a mystery.  Yes, vaccines aren't 100% foolproof. But they are >99.9% foolproof.  In a world with so much awfulness,  I worship the ground vaccine inventors walk on.  They are our saviors.  They make it so when we have children, we expect them to grow into adults. That is a privilege humans have only enjoyed in the 20th and 21st centuries in rich countries.  It is humbling to consider.

Oh, and today it was reported that an mRNA vaccine keeps people with the most deadly form of a cancer, pancreatic cancer, alive: 
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pancreatic-cancer-mrna-vaccine-shows-lasting-results-early-trial-rcna331969

A rare bit of truly good news.  [/quote]

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