Submitted by YouAreNotMeLiar t3_zycge7 in news
pegothejerk t1_j258mh8 wrote
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Which if you dig deeper than “kids today” appears to be caused by a lack of exposure to essential microbes, too much exposure to pollution, a lack of vitamin D, drastic dietary changes from mass produced foods. Microbial diversity and vitamin d issues might not be so bad if we didn’t build cities to literally be difficult to exist in without a car, there are ridiculous laws that require three times the space of a building’s footprint for parking, there’s a severe lack of bike paths, of parks, of pedestrian walkways, and the gun culture has made going outside extremely undesirable thanks to the perceived risks associated with gun violence and the fear mongering media outlets and political think tanks push on everyone today. So it seems worshipping money (poverty caused by greed), oil & gas and power structures are more to blame than just “kids today”. If only they felt safe, if only their parents had living wages, and if only they had the infrastructure to play outside so they could process away those allergies in their early years.
MidLifeHalfHouse t1_j27zfde wrote
Spot on. Not only did society just forget that polio taught us how awesome vaccines are, polio taught us how helpful germs can be too. And now we’ll be getting zombie viruses from global warming. Good times. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/series/diseases/polio.html
scummy_shower_stall t1_j28jh3z wrote
That was a fascinating read, thank you! The bit about polio survivors getting the symptoms again when they’re older makes me wonder if it’s like the chickenpox herpes virus that re-emerges as shingles when the person gets weak or worn down. Maybe the virus just lays dormant for decades.
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