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Actually, the 'Spanish' flu would be a better example. As influenza in general. Young children are a high risk group. But as Nietzsche said, "Out of life’s sch

• candiodari 5y ago
  "what doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger." Do enough medicine and you'll see just how wrong this is. Every medical issue leaves damage on your body. Mostly very small. Even fractures, the example often given, yes, a broken bone grows back stronger ... and less flexible, more brittle and heavier, more calcified, with less blood going through it a fact it will not cease to remind you off once you turn 55 or so.
  • Borrible 5y ago
    Not to be misunderstood, that Nietzsche quote was a sarcastic comment on some strange lines of thought one can find in the anti-vaccination fringes. Another one is 'God wills it' and another one is, it's 'natural' or 'pure'. As an extreme, you can find that strange mix of sentimental almost pseudo-religious nature enthusiasm, magical thinking and barbarism in National Socialism. They were obsessed with the healthy Aryan body, albeit its rulers themselves for the most part not exactly the most outstanding specimens. Metaphors of health, disease, and parasitism in the racial corpus permeate the whole ideology like metastasized cancer. Of course, the Reich just needed healthy soldiers, ruthlessly against the weak amongst themselves and the enemy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07409710903149744 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0740971090314974... https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_VIN_113_0029--the-nazis-and-nature.htm https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_VIN_113_0029--the-nazis... https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/standing-up-for-the-truth-about-homeopathy-and-nazi-medicine-1.2138835 https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/standing-up-for-the... --- Now on to my 50 squats per hour. Mens sana in corpore sano