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No one even had seasonal allergies in the 70's. We were much healthier until big Pharma got too greedy.

Grew up in the 60-70s
We had one boy who died of cancer and a girl who only attended classes a few times. She had a condition where her body was covered with hair. Poor girl, too strange.
And that was in a class numbering a total of 30 children!
In a Northeast rural-suburban area
Never thought much about it until now.
There were also students who may have been diagnosed as on the autism spectrum, but they were just considered overly shy, extremely so.
One student was definitely ADHD but it wasn't diagnosed back then.
The tecaher placed his desk in the front of the room, right next to the teacher's desk and that made the kid behave.

I was in junior school in the 60s, and, we had one girl who was allergic to milk (lactose intolerance), otherwise, we had the usual sicknesses, measles, mumps, chicken pox, German measles....

I remember one of the boys on my housing estate, getting measles, and we all went to his house to catch it.

Nothing like your own natural immunity.

UK here.

I knew one lass in our whole school of over a thousand pupils who had a slight asthma problem, and could only run short races in our sports classes.

Apart from that, nothing, no allergies, nowt.

And kids weren't fat.

From the 50s on - no one had any of these "diseases" - but the polio vax we were given back then is said to be causing cancer today. 12 children in my family and we all had chicken pox, measles, mumps and everything else but no one died or even came close to it. Sorry I ever vaxxed my kids as today they have health issues from vaxxes, food, etc.

My best friend had an inhaler for her asthma, but she grew out of it. I knew one girl who was allergic to strawberries. That's it. I was just saying to my partner the other day that I didn't know one single kid with a peanut allergy. I grew up in a suburb of Denver, it's not like I was in a really small town.

Same here Commander, we must be about the same age and I got the small child 3-f'er jab MMR (the one that left a round scar on the arm and I still got mumps as a kid, also Chicken Pox, lived thru it fine)... 55 years later I have not been jabbed with anything since and I will NOT ever ... I too do not remember any of the childhood issues we see now in any classmates or fiends back then...ENOUGH is ENOUGH💥

I knew 1 girl in crutches/walker..

Same….. that all began in the mid 80’s… that’s also when they added more and more injections required for the vaccination program

In the 50's most brought peanut butter and jelly sandwiches + a thermos of milk: no allergies. Spot on with the rest mentioned. Only got polio vaccine back then, (a neighbors kid got the shot: then got polio!) Foods: stored in glass jars, not plastic containers. Mercury thermometers, if one broke, we had to call special housekeeping team to clean it up it was considered too toxic to handle (now it's in vaccines, etc, "as a preservative!")

only vaccine I got was polio but had chicken pox measles mumps if you got a chest cold they made mustard plaster or onion plaster only time you went to the doctor was if you were near death

didn't we meet at school?

WOW! YOU MADE A GREAT POINT--INCREDIBLE