Thread: Measles

As I like to say, everyone has an uncle Louie who smoked two packs of smokes a day and drinks like a fish and lived to be 95 and never saw the inside of a hospital. Some are blessed with good genes and practically nothing will do them in. Most do not have this benefit. However, we all have different immune systems and genes and live and work in different environments which all affect our life experiences as far as illness goes.

Just to address Bruno's posts. In the end it's all elementary. When treatments and drugs cost thousands a dose few can afford it period.

Ha ! So true! I had an uncle Oscar that was like that. He used to smoke Craven A unfiltered

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Much of the opioid problem isn't so much folks getting addicted trying to treat pain. Its a criminal thing. Drug distributors sending millions of doses to these little town in the middle of nowhere and crooked doctors and pharmacists and folks looking the other way when they knew something wasn't right.

I saw something that said that if you added up all of the prescriptions in WV it was enough to have everyone in the state high every day.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

We all have different life experiences that colour our beliefs.

Exactly!

I was only vaccinated for MMR and Polio as a kid in the early 60s. I'm pretty sure I had a mild case of chicken pox (lots of kids in our house) and I remember my younger sister having it a little worse.

Fast forward... I travel the world in my job for the past 40 yrs. A lot of third-world countries. Dealing with people of questionable health and many that have not had many (maybe no) vaccinations. Been through several pandemics, and other high-risk environments and I have only caught the flu twice. Once in 1983 and once in 2016. Tamiflu took care of it in a couple of days on the last one. Only had food poisoning two or three times and used Cipro to knock it out in a couple of days.

Because I have been blessed with good health, I tend to discount the need for all of these vaccinations. But, I'm no spring chicken any more. I haven't slowed down (much) but I do occasionally think about the possibility of my immunity weakening and wondering if I should start considering these so-called preventive measures.

Originally Posted by kelbro

Exactly!

I was only vaccinated for MMR and Polio as a kid in the early 60s. I'm pretty sure I had a mild case of chicken pox (lots of kids in our house) and I remember my younger sister having it a little worse.

Fast forward... I travel the world in my job for the past 40 yrs. A lot of third-world countries. Dealing with people of questionable health and many that have not had many (maybe no) vaccinations. Been through several pandemics, and other high-risk environments and I have only caught the flu twice. Once in 1983 and once in 2016. Tamiflu took care of it in a couple of days on the last one. Only had food poisoning two or three times and used Cipro to knock it out in a couple of days.

Because I have been blessed with good health, I tend to discount the need for all of these vaccinations. But, I'm no spring chicken any more. I haven't slowed down (much) but I do occasionally think about the possibility of my immunity weakening and wondering if I should start considering these so-called preventive measures.

As you age your immunity definitely weakens. You really don't see it until you reach around 70. My wife works with little kids and she brings all kinds of bugs home. It never used to bother me but the past year or so I'm starting to come down with all kinds of stuff.

When she comes home she strips down and everything goes in the wash. I'm not sure how much that does. I told her she better consider retiring soon.

I have a hard time seeing that the average healthcare worker around here anyway wears their uniform home.

My socks and briefs are the only thing I don't change when I get to work and leave.

There has been a big issue around here about a factory that works with lead and the children of the workers have been exposed by the lead their parents bring to the car or home.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

As you age your immunity definitely weakens. You really don't see it until you reach around 70. My wife works with little kids and she brings all kinds of bugs home. It never used to bother me but the past year or so I'm starting to come down with all kinds of stuff.

When she comes home she strips down and everything goes in the wash. I'm not sure how much that does. I told her she better consider retiring soon.

Bon and I are definitely healthier now that she retired from elementary school!

Originally Posted by 32t

There has been a big issue around here about a factory that works with lead and the children of the workers have been exposed by the lead their parents bring to the car or home.

I did some work with a lead factory in Torreon Mexico back in the 90s. Kids started getting really sick and they started investigating. Besides the other lead contamination in the area (soil and air), they found that the parents were tracking home lead from the smelter and these peoples homes tested almost as high as the factory for contamination. The company did not educate them on the hazards. It was sad. The company ended up buying the surrounding property and compensating the families for the medical issues.

When I was in high-school, There was a fishing sinker factory ( Still in business) that would hire school kids for a monthly production run. Pay plus a big steak dinner at the end.
NO warnings... 1950's

~Richard

Back in "The good old days" either they didn't know about occupational hazards or if they did it was just considered the price you paid for the job you had.

At one time watch faces were hand painted with paint containing radium. The young gals that did the work used to dip the brushes and lick them to get them to a sharp point. Most of them died of various forms of oral cancer.