Comments on: The Rapunzel Syndrome http://floppingaces.net/2007/02/27/the-rapunzel-syndrome/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-rapunzel-syndrome Fri, 25 May 2012 05:25:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Indigo Red http://floppingaces.net/2007/02/27/the-rapunzel-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-2779 Indigo Red Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:25:38 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/02/27/the-rapunzel-syndrome/#comment-2779 I learned from Public Television that polio was a common everyday virus which was relatively harmless, just one of those millions of bugs existing in the environment. Kids got dirty, they were infected with the polio virus and in a week or so were just fine agian. Then came the do-gooders seeking to clean up the cities at the start of the 20th Century. After the cities were cleansed and kids were sanitized, people were felled by polio as a crippling and deadly disease. A London hospital study recently showed that kids in clean homes were sick more often than kids in less clean homes. As cleanliness has increased, so has asthma. As smallpox was eradicated across Africa, AIDS followed on the heals of the do-gooders. Oh, wait! Now science is finding similarities between the AIDS virus and smalpox. Could it possibly be that smallpox provided a natural vaccine against AIDS? When we mess with natural selection and save those non-optimum individuals, we end up with a very large population of sickly folk who should have never survived childhood. Harsh? Yes. But, that's life, and then it gets easier.

I learned from Public Television that polio was a common everyday virus which was relatively harmless, just one of those millions of bugs existing in the environment. Kids got dirty, they were infected with the polio virus and in a week or so were just fine agian.

Then came the do-gooders seeking to clean up the cities at the start of the 20th Century. After the cities were cleansed and kids were sanitized, people were felled by polio as a crippling and deadly disease.

A London hospital study recently showed that kids in clean homes were sick more often than kids in less clean homes. As cleanliness has increased, so has asthma. As smallpox was eradicated across Africa, AIDS followed on the heals of the do-gooders.

Oh, wait! Now science is finding similarities between the AIDS virus and smalpox. Could it possibly be that smallpox provided a natural vaccine against AIDS? When we mess with natural selection and save those non-optimum individuals, we end up with a very large population of sickly folk who should have never survived childhood. Harsh? Yes. But, that’s life, and then it gets easier.

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]]> By: Mike http://floppingaces.net/2007/02/27/the-rapunzel-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-2778 Mike Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:00:46 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/02/27/the-rapunzel-syndrome/#comment-2778 Once again, a cartoon which captures graphically and with humor a complex subject and shines the light of truth on it. Oh, and the quiz was GREAT! Let's see how many libs figure out the secret and join the 95th percentile club.

Once again, a cartoon which captures graphically and with humor a complex subject and shines the light of truth on it.

Oh, and the quiz was GREAT! Let’s see how many libs figure out the secret and join the 95th percentile club.

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