As much as I hate the amount of illnesses my kids get from daycare - maybe this shouldn't be a goal? In workplaces, hospitals, etc. we definitely want to reduce illness. In daycares, the kids are all building their immune systems and the contact with germs is a vital part of that.
I definitely understand the teachers don’t want to be sick, and it’s a hardship on parents to keep kids home, so it’s not all about the kids’ health. But the kids’ health might be better served by letting them get more minor illnesses, not less.
Even a third less is probably still plenty. And the putative immune system benefit strikes me as hypothetical unless the exposure and effect are quantified.
Well, I've got all mine, unless another booster is available that I don't know about. One thing about vaccines is that you know exactly who got them, and who didn't. This probably makes it a lot easier to study.
And I'm willing to believe that some childhood exposure to pathogens is beneficial, but I don't think we know how much of a good thing is enough, or too much.
Do you think that we’ve discovered and cataloged the sum total of milder pathogens that protect against worse illnesses in a lab? Got all mine means “got all the ones we currently know enough about to develop a vaccine for.”
I'd agree based on my own bias which appeals to nature, and thus can only agree if the environment's somewhat untouched. but we've introduced so much into our environment, from tyre/brake dust to micro plastic to covid, I'd really much rather we just clean the air. we are not anime protagonist that evolve in real time, evolution in the real world consists of the unfit dying, and the ones that lives reproduce etc
I definitely understand the teachers don’t want to be sick, and it’s a hardship on parents to keep kids home, so it’s not all about the kids’ health. But the kids’ health might be better served by letting them get more minor illnesses, not less.