I think it’s very scary. I’m old enough to remember the polio outbreak just before the vaccine, when the entire country was practically shut down. People were afraid to take their kids to any place where there were other children, every day you saw pictures of children in those horrifying “iron lungs.” It was really the stuff of nightmares. Plus it turned out to have effects decades later, and people who recovered from it as children suddenly developed the symptoms again when they were in their 40s or 50s.
Jonas Salk was an absolute hero when the vaccine was announced, and I remember lining up to get vaccinated and then later taking the “sugar cube” with the booster.
Horrifying disease, and I can’t believe that parents are playing roulette with their children’s future this way.
Mine got all the vaccinations! We were moving when one of them was scheduled for the measles vaccine, so he missed it...and got measles immediately in the his new school. (They gave the vaccine later at that time.) Unfortunately, he gave measles to his younger siblings, and one of them nearly died from it. They all survived, thank God, but I can’t imagine why somebody would take the chance of going through this and not have their child vaccinated.
Thankful your child survived that!
Yep, the old sugar cube, I remember it well.
So much misinformation going around, on ALL fronts, imho.
My dad had polio. They said he’d never walk again but he is a strong man. He has a tiny twisted leg that will some day give out on him as he gets older. I vaccinate my children. I don’t ever want them to have to live through what my father did. Oh, the stories he can tell!
So we all need the chickenpox vaccine and the papilloma virus vaccine and whatever else the schools decide we need? Polio and smallpox are one thing, flu vaccines are another. Moral equivalences.
And one other thing. There is a young girl in our church, ruined by vaccines as a young child, today decimated by constant seizures, whom the cdc refuses to recognize as their victim.