alloytoo
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You don't want to argue the case? You have to argue the man instead? You know what I meant.
Did you mean you don't consider children people?
or
You do consider children people, but you just consider their deaths unimportant?
You have statistics for that? You forget that there has also been a lot of wars before 60 years ago where people regularly lost their lives. Co-morbidities taken into account your chances of dying from disease don't show as being less today.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
Actually it has quite a big effect.
It has no effect on diseases that are not spread through poor sanitation. (though selective vaccinations may well prevent help prevent diseases in situations where sanitation is unavoidably poor)
Nope. These people acquired the disease and survived it. Sure they were immunised by the disease and that's how they became carriers of it but it was their natural immunity that enabled them to survive it. When they came into contact with nations that didn't have this natural immunity they almost wiped them out as practically everybody they infected died.
And vaccinations had they been available might well have saved those populations.
Without natural immunity they were at risk. Look it up. It's real.
It's called evolution, specifically natural selection.
The human genome is not homogeneous across the population, there is variation with the human genome. Those better suited to survive infection will survive and pass on their survival traits to the next generation.
This opens unique avenues for health research, if we can find a way of making the evolved immunity to a more general remedy.

