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There’s a weird little trick to living longer. It’s one that influencers won’t tell you; after all, there’s no way to earn a commission on it. It can be found tucked in the back of CVS, or even at any regular old doctor’s office. It’s expensive, but you may very well be able to get it for free. The government increasingly—staggeringly, stupefyingly—doesn’t want you to know about it.

It’s vaccination , a concept so boring, so establishment that it’s easy to forget that it matters at all. Vaccines, it’s been said for years, work so well to eliminate terrible illnesses like polio and measles that some people question why we need to inject them into our kids at al

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