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LiberalArkie

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6. Why now is different from then. I grew up then also. Born in 1948.

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #5)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 02:54 PM

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The reason it is different then from now, is the neighborhoods and towns generally consisted of people from that town and vicinity. Their parents were from there. Their grandparents from there. Everyone had a general natural low level immunity to the various strains running around.

But now is different. People in neighborhoods, schools and towns come and go. People from around the world the world move in and out. All with different levels of immunities. I figured that out when I was young. A new guy moved in the neighborhood from ST. Louis. After his kid, a boy my age, started in the school, he got sick as a horse with the measles. No one else did. Later in the year we all got the mumps and he never had a sniffle.

Just different immunities. I think that is why measles is so dangerous now compared to before. The vaccine allowed people from different areas to live together without each other making the others sick.

That is just my thinking.

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