We have the luxury of developing half-baked theories about vaccines. I even see people doing it with their poor dogs - advocating not getting rabies shots.
Those of us who remember the summer polio panics and friends with a brother or sister deaf or retarded because their mom had German measles while pregnant, know better.
Fully agree; I bet you anything that if a genuine epidemic of polio (likely since it has hit Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) hit the US, these very idealists would be screaming about how the government didn’t do enough to protect their vaccine free spud.
I had to deal with a ‘SIDS’ death in the Army. It occurred on the night of the 6-month (MMR) vaccination. I asked the attending hospital nurse if she though the vaccine had anything to do with the child’s death. Her response: “we’re not supposed to talk about that”. Dead and damaged babies are the cost of the Faustian Deal the medical community has made since the late 1800s to stop commonplace outbreaks of cholera, rubella, etc. which were spread in open air markets and in poor sanitation. With under developed immune systems the babies were the vectors so they were the targets for immunization. I don’t see people throwing garbage and sewage in public, open-air food markets yet I do see children dying and damaged from vaccines used to combat the ghosts of 19th century sanitation.
Amen. I remember the wards and the deaths from “ child hood diseases”
“We have the luxury of developing half-baked theories about vaccines. “
Dead on. When people are not fearful for their very lives they take everything for granted. The old saying goes: Those that fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. That, and stupidity knows no bounds.