Last of the iron lungs

Nov 20, 2017 15:29:35 GMT -5 Boyd Percy said:
Great article. I still can't understand why some people won't have their children vaccinated!


Because they have no concept of what life was like prior to the various vaccines being developed. They treat all the documentation concerning deaths and crippling as fake news, if they are even aware of the existence of such documentation. Instead, they buy into all the bullshit claims that there's a connection between vaccination and autism, claiming that anything refuting their "evidence" is lies paid for by "Big Pharma".

What I don't understand is how they get away with it; when I was a kid, if you weren't current on your vaccinations, they wouldn't allow you into the school building at the beginning of the school year, it was as simple as that.

I was born in 1960, there weren't many adults around who didn't remember what it was like prior to the Salk vaccine and the vacccines for measles and the flu, etc. Now? One of my co-workers at the Chicago Public Library had polio as a kid; his legs didn't work too well, always had to use crutches to get around. My father was hit by a car when he was a kid, and may have had a case of polio while in the hospital, but there were enough other problems they had keeping him alive that no one was ever sure if he did or not. Other than that, all I know about polio is due to reading The Forgotten Killer. Oh, and an episode of Emergency I watched as a kid, where one of the doctors laid a major guilt trip on a mom whose kid had contracted polio; asked her how she was going to explain to him her not having had him immunized. That stuck with me.