[DoodleBob]

The purpose of this article isn't to trash any COVID19 vaccine. But rather, to highlight that even the 'safest' plans can go awry, and that waiting doesn't ipso facto make you an anti-vaxxer.

[Pining_4_TX]

It turned me into a newt....

I got better.

[Repeal The 17th]

We all went to the local high school
and had the Sabin sugar cube back in the day...

[vetvetdoug]

I took graduate courses in microbiology at the University of Tennessee. In one course we studied the “Cutter Incident” and several other not well known incidents. One was where a vaccine against an Adenovirus was developed to use on military recruits because the Adenovirus was causing some severe respiratory problems in USAF recruits. The vaccine was tested on 1000 USAF recruits in January of 1974 to a rousing success until further research found that the vaccine piggybacked an “Onc” gene, a gene that caused cancer in laboratory animals. I would have never known that I was one of the recruits that received that vaccine had I not taken a graduate course in virology taught by one of the developers of the vaccine. I take the flu vaccine yearly and other vaccines needed for older citizens.

[HighSierra5]

Did they shut everything down in those days?

[the_Watchman]

My mother’s brother died from polio contracted around 1952. He spent the last weeks of his life in an iron lung.

[Pikachu_Dad]

What a great idea... "world), it was seen as a sign of his confidence in the treatment. But he wasn’t the first person to use his family to instill confidence..." Here is another application of that method. Russian rocket program was criticized because its fuel was unstable. So the team leader insisted on sitting in the bleachers to watch the launch to demonstrate that he had confidence that the fuel was safe. In fact, his entire rocket team 'decided' to join him. It was a most excellent showing of confidence in their design... Explosion🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Oh wait. The rocket blew up on launch. (Nedelin catastrophe) The entire design team was killed.... Um, nevermind.

[Trailerpark Badass]

No one here remembers the swine flu vaccine?

[Truthoverpower]

The vaccine industry is evil. Doubt me ?

Why are 100% of demoncraps for FORCED vaccines. ?

Why is there a 10 Billion $ and counting fund to pay off parents with dead or retarded kids ? Hmmmmmm?

They’re Do gooders from HELL

[Secret Agent Man]

further sv-40 virus was in the polio vax as well

they knew it was in there

they did not bother to take this known contaminant out

sv-40 is a virus they knew at the time, caused cancers in primates

therefore it would affect people

and it isn’t a coincidence that all forms of cancer in people skyrocketed since this vaccine was given to most americans alove in the 50s and early 60s

and if affects their children they had afterwards

[Ceebass]

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.

[musicman]

BTTT!!!

[qwerty1234]

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/

[norwaypinesavage]

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.

[Mister Da]

Putin’s daughter could have been given a saline injection, as could Salk’s children. Very few would ever know.