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“How did we survive thousands of years without vaccines?” Well, quite a few children didn’t. That’s rather the point. Smallpox killed millions. Measles killed children. Polio paralyzed them. Pertussis suffocated infants. Humanity survived because enough people lived long enough to reproduce—not because infectious diseases were harmless. And a nurse claiming healthy newborns cannot be deficient in anything ought to revisit neonatal physiology. ALL newborns have low vitamin K because placental transfer is limited. Without prophylaxis, their risk of vitamin K deficiency bleeding is 81 times higher. That bleeding can occur in the brain of an otherwise perfectly healthy infant. Vaccination programs are estimated to have saved 154 million lives over the past 50 years, including 101 million infants. But apparently, protecting children from diseases that once killed them is a pharmaceutical conspiracy. The extraordinary thing isn’t that humanity survived without modern medicine. It’s how many people died before we developed it. And the tragedy is seeing a healthcare professional romanticize those deaths as the good old days.