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[quote=Anonymous]Older person here.  I grew up in a very small town pre-measles vaccine and just at the time before the polio vaccine reached full penetration.  In my first grade at school of the sixty to seventy children, two had permanently weakened legs from polio, one had permanently weakened eyesight from measles, and another was permanently severely spastic from measles.

There was no pneumonia vaccine.  When I was three or four I was among 20 or so children of that age who came down with pneumonia and had to be hospitalized.  We were all put in one room as a sort of quarantine; three of us died.

Chicken pox was a rite of passage for all; I don't remember anyone had ill effects from it.  When my two children were young the chicken pox vaccine had just come in and there were mixed views on it. As I was deciding, fate intervened and both got it--one suffered a post infection neuropsychiatric disorder, luckily transient.

Vaccines are not just life saving; they can prevent life altering physical damage.

That said, I sometimes wonder if vaccine proponents are having their case undermined a bit by advocacy of vaccines against HPV and maybe others down the road, whose merits are less clear cut.[/quote]

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