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In article <sptaep$ukb$
1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <
lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
xkcd: Immunity
https://xkcd.com/2557/
Heh, circular logic.
Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2557:_Immunity
Yeah.
I well remember the theory that "if you don't catch the
'childhood diseases' as a child, you'll never catch them all."
That's what my mother was taught when she trained as a nurse,
back in the 1930s. So when she had me, she carefully kept me
away from any of my little friends who had mumps, measles (red or
German), or chicken pox.
With the result that I caught red measles as a college freshman,
and chicken pox as a sophomore.
By the time I was contemplating getting married, there was a
German measles vaccine, which I carefully went out and got. I
forget when the mumps vaccine came in (google says 1967);
presumably I got it at some point.
We were careful to get our kids all the vaccinations they could
get (they contracted chicken pox before there was a vaccine for
it), and now that they're adults and have children of their own,
they've been similarly conscientious.
--
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/
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