> "It used to be, when I were a kid, that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection"<p>I suppose the kids who were hospitalized and <i>died</i> did, technically, gain "lifetime protection from measles"!<p>If "natural" inoculation was <i>that</i> effective and <i>that</i> safe, you know hwat? <i>The disease would already be extinct generations ago</i>, and we wouldn't be having these discussions. If anything, crazy folks like this are <i>helping</i> a disease we almost had practically eradicated.<p>___<p>Additionally:<p>This is even <i>worse</i> from a personal-liberty perspective, because even if it were as safe as vaccines (it <i>isn't</i>) to be effective you would need to force/compel/entice <i>even more people</i> into partiicpating, since it's actually increasing the number of infectious sources and routes in the short-term.<p>Even for kids not hospitalized/dead, measles damages and kinda-resets the immune system, meaning they become vulnerable to injury/death from <i>other</i> diseases even after you thought they were safe.