On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 18:46:10 +0000 (UTC), "Duncan"
wrote:


"MM" wrote in message
.. .


I absolutely agree with this. Today's townie kids' immune systems are
shot to pieces because the kids never get their peck of dirt while
growing up. When do you see kids playing outside in the fields
nowadays? Everyone is scared of 'stranger danger'. If they do go out
of doors away from the telly or computer game, they just ride their
bikes around. Where's the cowboys and injuns, the lying on the ground
playing fives, that kind of thing? Kids (and adults) have little
contact with the natural world, then suddenly, panic, as 'bird flu'
strikes.

If modern humans were transported briefly back to Victorian London,
their sojourn would indeed be brief as many would succumb straightaway
to the ordinary everyday noxious substances that hardy workers of the
day had got used to from birth.

MM

The hardy ones who had survived diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough,
polio, measles, smallpox, cholera and typhoid, that is!

Indeed.

MM