[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Does anyone remember polio and iron lungs....I do***

I remember those days! Often I wish some of the anti-vaxers could be put in a time machine and returned to the wonderful world of Polio, Diphtheria, whooping cough, cholera, yellow fever, SMALLPOX, tetanus, RABIES, MEASLES, more measles, and assorted other nasties! Why do they think the old timers had so many children! Most would never make it to adulthood and the old cemeteries prove this.

Even a farmer has enough sense to vaccinate his cattle against Blackleg, anthrax and edema and other nasties!

I still remember a kid my age who were so crippled from Polio they wore braces and walked with two canes. When our school had a fire drill two large boys were given the job of carrying him out of the building!

[Ditter]

I remember polio. I went to school with several kids who had it. I was going to take swimming lessons but it must have started about then, so I never learned to swim. Along with no swimming we stopped going to the movies and my dad discovered drive in movies. I didn’t understand until years later what they were afraid of.

Then there is post polio, it never stops.

[marron]

If you are my age, you remember polio. Our parents couldn’t wait to get us vaccinated. You didn’t have to make it obligatory. We wanted it.

This is the argument. It isn’t, are vaccines a good thing. Its whether or not they should be obligatory, as in, take your kids away from you and put you in jail obligatory. Thats a different subject.

There may be some diseases in which that is the case, you are prepared to use police power to enforce it. There may be other cases, other diseases, where it is not right to use the power of the state to enforce it.

But as I say, in the worst cases, with the worst diseases, it doesn’t take much incentive to get people to get the shot. They want it. Its the secondary diseases, where people start to consider the risks and occasionally refuse to be stampeded.