How common was it for parents to lose a child?

Re:How common was it for parents to lose a child? by mikeash on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:44PM (#20966342)

Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_vaccines

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Re:How common was it for parents to lose a child? by amasad on Friday September 13, 2019 @05:21PM (#20966727)

This is like saying we've been 'programming' since Ada Lovelace wrote the first program in the 1840, which is silly to say the least. The CDC starts measure after a vaccine has passed the 'licensure' process: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6004a9.htm

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Re:How common was it for parents to lose a child? by mikeash on Friday September 13, 2019 @06:00PM (#20967062)

Programming wasn’t saving thousands of lives in the 1840s. Vaccines were is fairly wide use long before the 1960s. Deaths from smallpox dropped sharply though the 1800s and it was eliminated entirely in many countries.

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Re:How common was it for parents to lose a child? by amasad on Friday September 13, 2019 @06:15PM (#20967183)

I think you're missing a basic understanding of what an "analogy" is. Hard to keep this conversation going.

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Re:How common was it for parents to lose a child? by mikeash on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:20PM (#20967680)

Programming had essentially zero real-world impact before the 1950s. The analogy you’re trying to make is that vaccines existed but had virtually no real world impact before the 1960s. Did I get that right? Because that’s what I understood, and it’s severely wrong.

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