Do kids today get all the same colds, flues, sore throats, etc. that we got as a child?

I want to compare the 60s, which is after vaccinations and antibiotics were available, and we weren’t getting polio and small pox any more, to present day.

We work so hard at stopping the “spread” of germs, you’d think today’s kids would never get sick. We constantly wash our hands, we talk about germs all the time, we cover surfaces we never covered before, we prepackage straws, we don’t use cloth drying towels in public bathrooms….the list goes on and on and on. But the kid today still get sick with all the same stuff we got sick with in the 60s. Are we just wasting our time and emotional energy?

I think it’s important to be reasonably clean, and it’s very important to handle food properly, but I think we go overboard. If a piece of food falls off of your plate onto the table at a restaurant, people would look at you horrified if you picked it up and ate it.