Hear hear! When Andrew and I found those same figures (we were trying to convince certain people that I wasn't going to kill my family by canning), we ended up on a research rabbit hole for every disease we had been lectured about. The same super low morbidity and mortality rates apply to polio, tetanus, and all the "SUPER SCARY" things that we are told to fear/get vaccinated against.

Of course, we're not idiots. We're both college-educated adults (a statement that holds less and less water, nowadays) who have backgrounds in research, education, and medicine (in Andrew's case), so we aren't waving healing crystals and hoping for the best when it comes to illness. But I also think that the human body is REALLY well designed, and runs much more robustly when it is fed, nourished, and healed by what the DESIGNER made.

You are controlled by what you fear. As for me and my house, we fear only One, and His good design is far better than the synthetic crap that people use to fabricate safety and security. The powers that be control people's perceptions of themselves, their abilities to heal, and even their abilities to parent through the most insidious fear tactics. As a new, first-time mother two years ago, I had to combat so much fear-hype that it was RIDICULOUS. But fear makes money. And if I type too much longer, I'll start getting really, really heated, haha!