Posted on 10/16/2020 7:35:26 PM PDT by DoodleBob
The purpose of this article isn’t to trash any COVID19 vaccine......
Yes.
They did have some problems 70 years ago but they’ve implemented fixes on the fixes, etc since then.
I remember getting polio shots as a kid. They hurt and I didn’t like them but I never got polio. I remember a girl in my neighborhood in a wheelchair who had polio.
Back in the 70’s when I was a young officer I got the swine flu shot from a needle gun. Luckily the officers went first to set the example. Luckily because the needle became dulled after 20 people got the shot before you did.
Perhaps being in the military for 20 years has dulled my apprehension towards the needle. Most civilians can’t imagine what it’s like in a pre deployment muster when you find out how many shots you’re gonna get.
Now, I get every vaccination I’m eligible for because I don’t want to get sick. When the Covid vaccine comes out I will be first in line to get it.
I don’t believe people should be required to get a vaccine, but I’d rather risk an obscure future adverse effect than get Covid.
BTTT!!!
If anyone is interested in this subject, PBS (yea I Know), had a great documentary about the race to develop the polio vaccine it I found quite interesting. Not sure where you can find it - seems to show up on my TV box once in a while. I was born after the polio vaccine was available, but can’t imagine the terror this caused in parents - especially in hot-spot areas - back then.
https://www.pbs.org/video/american-experience-the-polio-crusade/
...and yes, the polio vaccine was not perfect right out of the gate, but how many people do you know that have contracted it in the last 60 years?
I was one of the “first and second graders” who was given the polio vaccine in the fifties. The author of this article clearly has no idea of what polio was back then. I had a girl friend with half a smile, the other half was paralyzed. A college friend would ask me to “brace him” as we walked up the stairs to our dorm, because the wind might blow him over since he weighed little, and had few working muscles. School mates were consigned to “iron lungs”, vacuum chambers that breathed for them. I couldn’t go to summer fairs or gatherings because I might catch polio.
The vaccine was a life changing event. All of this ended, and a normal life resumed. The probability of injury from the vaccine was far less than the probability of polio. Our mostly eighth grade educated parents knew this and allowed the vaccines. It’s too bad that ignorant journalists are not so well educated.
“Did they shut everything down in those days?”
Just public swimming pools - which weren’t a danger.
Putin’s daughter could have been given a saline injection, as could Salk’s children. Very few would ever know.
I have little doubt that Putin would either inject her with saline or air. It all depends upon which outcome would further his power.
“Mynd you, hirønø bites Kan be pretti nasti...”
That is hilarious! You even used the “correct” spelling. :-)
Thank you. I always strive for proper form. JimRob runs a tight ship - I’ve come to see that it’s the little things that make FR great.
I got the Jonus Salk vaccine too. Matter of fact his autograph is on my parlor wall.
That Salk shot left one hell of a scab, but it sure beat an iron lung.They stopped giving the shot in 1971 the year our high school band went to Europe. Got the booster that year.
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