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In reply to the discussion: Measles is back: A mother's story, from today's LA Times: [View all]AleksS
(1,685 posts)But don't forget the ones who AREN'T here today, because they died from those diseases.
Like those 50-100 million wimps who died from a silly ol' flu! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
That's what I don't get about folks who live in the "I did XXX, so why doesn't everyone just do XXX?"
Some people survived these diseases. Many people didn't. It probably wasn't their choice to die. (Just a guess.)
It's the same thing you hear from RW "bootstrappers." (Most famously in the Romney's line: "When we were in college, we just sold some of our stock to pay our way through. Why doesn't everyone just do that?" Or "If kids want to go to college, they should just do what we did, and get loans from their parents!"
The inability to recognize that one's personal situation is not shared universally--is baffling to me.