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I'm interested to know why you think its wrong.

• mywittyname 6y ago
  Well, getting certain infections as a child will cause permanent damage that continues into adulthood. And increasing the likelihood of getting infections also increases the likelihood of getting a particularly bad one. Also, if living in a dirty environment led to better immune systems, we'd observe people from developing nations with poor hygienic standards growing up to have super immune systems. Or people that work in hospitals would never get sick after so many years on the job. But neither of those are the case. Vaccines are a much, much more effective way of building immune systems than doing it "the natural way."
  • matz1 6y ago
    >Well, getting certain infections as a child will cause permanent damage that continues into adulthood. And increasing the likelihood of getting infections also increases the likelihood of getting a particularly bad one. It could certainly happen but does it happen in most case ? >Also, if living in a dirty environment led to better immune systems, we'd observe people from developing nations with poor hygienic standards growing up to have super immune systems But that is what I observe, people who move from outside of that environment, tend to get sick easily compare to people who been living there all the time but over time their immune system adapt and chance to get sick decrease. > Or people that work in hospitals would never get sick after so many years on the job Of course they would still can get sick, but maybe they have less tendency to become sick compared to the general population ? >Vaccines are a much, much more effective way Well, of course, since its purpose built method
    • Klinky 6y ago
      >Well, getting certain infections as a child will cause permanent damage that continues into adulthood. And increasing the likelihood of getting infections also increases the likelihood of getting a particularly bad one. >It could certainly happen but does it happen in most case ? Shingles is from varicella-zoster virus, which causes chicken pox in children, reawakening within your nervous system at a later age. Most children in the US born earlier than 1995 were probably not vaccinated against chickenpox, and have a higher risk of shingles trashing their nervous system at an older age. Assuming "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is flawed. Viruses can lay dormant and slowly kill you, or flare up and cause complications later. A lot of viruses like herpes family, hepatitis, HIV, are bad mojo that typically leave your body permanently weaker after infection, not stronger.