I am old so I remember a time when people got sick, went to bed, and basically treated themselves through the illness. No one thought that much about prevention except a few “health nuts” who were as rare as anti-vaxxers. There was kind of a common wisdom culture about disease that advised to endure it like bad weather. Of course, sometimes people did die but most people didn’t. So, I never took a flu shot, even though I’ve been hit with some big bugs. One time I literally was two weeks in bed and could barely open my eyes. The wisdom was that I wouldn’t get that one again and I never did. I don’t know, though, how to tell someone who doesn’t have this folk wisdom how to put up with symptoms. Like my granddaughter who on her first hike in the mountains started sweating, and she said, “I’m sweating, is this normal?”
I am old so I remember a time when people got sick, went to bed, and basically treated themselves through the illness. No one thought that much about prevention except a few “health nuts” who were as rare as anti-vaxxers. There was kind of a common wisdom culture about disease that advised to endure it like bad weather. Of course, sometimes people did die but most people didn’t. So, I never took a flu shot, even though I’ve been hit with some big bugs. One time I literally was two weeks in bed and could barely open my eyes. The wisdom was that I wouldn’t get that one again and I never did. I don’t know, though, how to tell someone who doesn’t have this folk wisdom how to put up with symptoms. Like my granddaughter who on her first hike in the mountains started sweating, and she said, “I’m sweating, is this normal?”
No shots of any kind for me.