Societal toughness in decay

[atallvlad]

I have a beef with cleanliness, or maybe it is a disagreement with the degrees to which people overthink, overspecialize, obsess, and overreact in today's society. I constantly see people worrying about their allergies, about their health, about asbestos(in one case). I see and hear of people overdiagnosed with a myriad of clinical disorders, most

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[sollersuk]

Agreed up to a point. My own feeling is that obsessing over unnecessary worries clutters up the real worries. 100 years ago a lot of people died unnecessarily (two of my grandmother's five children, for a start, and a third nearly died of diphtheria). I'm not happy about multiple vaccinations because of the effect they had on my father during WWII, but mumps is a killer, and it took me five months to get over whooping cough