Vaccine skepticism runs deep among white evangelicals in US

“The pathway to ending the pandemic runs through the evangelical church,” said Curtis Chang, a former pastor and missionary who founded ChristiansAndTheVaccine.com, the cornerstone of the new initiative, With white evangelicals comprising an estimated 20% of the U.S. population, resistance to vaccination by half of them would seriously hamper efforts to achieve herd immunity, Chang contends.

Many evangelical leaders have spoken in support of vaccinations, ranging from Dallas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress to the Rev. Russell Moore, head of the Southern Baptists’ public policy arm.

Salk’s Polio vaccine was 1 of the fasted approved. But not as fast as COVID.

History, Salk didn’t patent his vaccine. Although polio was the most feared disease of the 20th century, it was hardly the deadliest.
“Polio was never the raging epidemic portrayed in the media, not even at its height in the 1940s and 1950s,” writes David M. Oshinsky in his Pulitzer Prize winning book “Polio: An American Story.” During those decades, 10 times as many children died in accidents and three times as many succumbed to cancer. Oshinsky notes that polio inspired such fear because it struck without warning and researchers were unsure of how it spread from person to person. In the years following World War II, polls found the only thing Americans feared more than polio was nuclear war.

1 bad batch.
https://www.history.com/news/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-jonas-salk-and-the-polio-vaccine

Gen George Washington experimented with Smallpox, using infected pustules of the sick to infected his troops, when it ran rampant through the ranks. Even inoculated his own family. Some just got mild cases, some died. Hit and miss. Later methods were tried.

It is the only vaccine I ever got, only because the school gave it. I had Mumps, both forms of measles. 72 no COVID, I had sense enough to stay OUT of Memphis. Keep your Masks and vaccines. My Body My Choice.

Look up Thalidomide babies, drug came out of Nazi experiments.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/jul/29/thalidomide-birth-defects-asbestos-drugs

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