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by lostlogin 1964 days ago
> modern humans live in sterile conditions whereas we have ferocious immune systems which evolved to handle filthy conditions.

Day care centres are what their immune system is designed to fight. I’m not sure how old your daughter is, but I have never been sicker than the few years my child attended one. I work in a hospital and my wife is a teacher, so it’s not like we weren’t exposed to bugs.

No matter how clean the child care centre, kids are a Petrie dish of horrible diseases.