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Some more history to put this into context.
Smallpox made its appearance in the midst of the collapse of Greek and Roman civilization, with their high standards of health, hygiene, and sanitation: public baths, municipal water supply, drainage, toilets, garbage disposal, spacious, well-aired, sun-drenched living quarters, and a simple, un-spoiled diet. These factors prevented smallpox from ravaging their populations at the same time it devastated Africa and Asia. How?
During the Dark Ages in Europe, sanitation, diet, and hygiene were frightfully inadequate. Noted hygienist and dietician Doctor Herbert Shelton describes the conditions:
According to Montgomery’s English History, the streets of London and other cities were rarely more than twelve to fifteen feet wide were neither paved nor lighted. Pools of stagnant water accumulated everywhere, heaps of garbage abounded and were only removed when it began to obstruct the traffic. There was no sewage and dead dogs, cats, rubbish, rotten vegetable and fruit refuse, human and animal excreta, and slops from the kitchen were all thrown into the streets. Surrounded by high walls, cities could not expand and people were forced to live in a slum-like manner. Holes served as windows, with little or no ventilation, whole families slept in one room often in one bed, and hundreds of persons lived in one building crowded in from the sub-celler to the attic. They rarely ever washed, had no bath tubs, no underwear and wore the same clothes day and night. They lived in utmost poverty, slaved long hours, even the children worked, drank heavily of alcohol, ate like hogs of spoiled, unnatural food and suffered from malnutrition.
So we see two cultural contrasts where disease was non-existant in one and rampant in the other. Did vaccines exist in Greece and Rome? But without them, how were they spared the ravages of this disease? Certainly the Roman Empire, which controlled vast portions of Africa and Asia, was not quarantined from the rest of the world. There was one simple factor involved: standard of living.
Examination of almost all statistical data regarding diseases and vaccination show that the vaccine had little to no measurable effect on reducing illness, and in some cases actually contributed to an increase of deaths from the disease - in other words, people were killed by the very disease they were vaccinated against, and they contracted the disease from the vaccination.
I got very sick as a child in the 70s from the vaccines.
Originally posted by DerepentLEstranger
reply to post by JibbyJedi
I got very sick as a child in the 70s from the vaccines.
me too!
we should consider ourselves lucky though
not only do we have immune systems comparable to wolverine or the midnighter [which said F U to the toxins we were injected]
but we managed to retain some psychic ability as well
Must be good genes. But that can't be true because I'm the last living member of my whole family, average age of death being 70. Is consciousness the X factor for some of us lucky ones?
In my opinion, the statistics that tell us all of those terrible things are bad for us are skewed and the science was junk.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by JibbyJedi
Must be good genes. But that can't be true because I'm the last living member of my whole family, average age of death being 70. Is consciousness the X factor for some of us lucky ones?
Good genes or bad statistics and science.
I grew up in the 2nd hand smoke filled house and car, I never wore a seatbelt, I've bounced off many windshields as a kid and an adult. Got all my vaccines, and my Dad always owned gas stations. I've inhaled and ingested more lead and exhaust fumes than I care to think about!
Somehow, I've never had a broken bone or a cavity in my life. I rarely get sick, and when I do, I don't go to the doctor, it just goes away after a day or two, especially if I can afford to take a day and sleep it off.
In my opinion, the statistics that tell us all of those terrible things are bad for us are skewed and the science was junk.
Originally posted by marg6043
reply to post by DerepentLEstranger
Thanks for adding the history facts, actually many experts agree that our evolution through diseases has more to do with sanitary conditions, improvements and practices than vaccinations.
Is consciousness the X factor for some of us lucky ones?