Re: Amanda vs. Jenny

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> For once, I agree with you Mark.     Interesting to note if the
anti-vaccine 
> people were inoculated as infants and children and do they have any
regrets 
> for having been vaccinated or not vaccinated?

It seems mostly to go the other way.  Having no experience with
polio, pertussis, etc. they don't take them seriously.

You see this in other generational cycles.  Street drugs go
that way: one generation will have enough experience with
(e.g.) heroin that kids will have first-hand reason to stay
away from it -- but with minimal experience with cocaine so
they take it up.  Eventually the heroin addicts die out and
heroin starts to look better than cocaine.

Another one is tattoos; those of us who grew up knowing old
people who had regrets for the tattoos they picked up in
WWII avoided them.  Eventually they died out and the practice
is back in fa****on, but there's already a good bit of "Ewww!"
factore towards them in the younger kids.

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