Steve R.
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This ties into the thread: Can We Be Too Clean (Ultra Sanitary)?Yeah, I think for the young population it would be better to get the virus and recover instead of useless vaccination.
We all want to be safe from disease. Vaccines serve that purpose. Also vaccines provide excellent political optics of the government and health industry helping us. Nevertheless, a legitimate concern is whether using vaccines or allowing people to get sick would have a better health outcome. (Of course if a vaccine is available and the child dies because the child did not get it, the recriminations start flying. But then a certain number of people will suffer adverse effects from a vaccines. Some may even die. The outliers make rational discussion difficult.)
Some allergies have been linked to children not having been "sick enough". There is also a rising concern that some anti-antibiotics are increasingly becoming less effective in treating diseases as the infectious agents become "resistant" to them.
Vaccines versus allowing people to be sick will be a perpetual debate, but one that should be discussed.