Victorian Illnesses Are Making a Comeback
Forget Covid for a minute. Odd Victorian and even 1600’s illnesses are making a comeback.
According to this source, Victorian illnesses are making a comeback.
Vaccine hesitancy is on the rise all over the world in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to an uptick in Victorian diseases that once plagued humanity throughout the 19th and early 20th Century, including gout, tuberculosis, malnutrition, whooping cough, measles, scurvy, typhoid, scarlet fever, diphtheria, mumps, rickets, cholera. Thousands of patients have been admitted with preventable diseases in the U.K., and experts say misinformation and the increasing politicization of vaccines are largely to blame.
It’s not just Covid that is to blame for the rise in odd illnesses:
“If we stop immunizing our children, then we go back to the Victorian era,” he said. “We look upon these things as a bit of a thing in the past because they are a thing in the past, not because we’ve got rid of them. It’s because we’ve controlled them through immunization. If we take away vaccines, they will bounce back.”
Other experts believe people’s immune systems may not be equipped to fend off diseases after two years of staying mostly indoors.
“This is since the removal of COVID-19 restrictions and…
