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It really is amazing. In the early twentieth century smallpox killed at least a third of a billion people, and perhaps half a billion -- far more than all the wars of that century combined. And now it's just gone. If any religion had ever accomplished such a thing, it would be touted as the greatest miracle ever. Vaccines are the most important technology humans have ever invented.
ReplyDeleteAll of it being flushed down the toilet because an incredibly stupid segment of the US population bought the snake oil being sold by the GOP.
ReplyDeleteIt will be cruel, I know, to point and say, "Told you so." when these maladies come roaring back because of the sheer stupidity of half the voting population.
ReplyDeleteEven before the Covid pandemic, when certain parents were complaining about their kids getting vaccines in school against their will, my take on the subject was this: Give them the waivers, let the little ignorant kiddies get the disease, it will successfully kill off a generation of like-minded voters. What their ignorant parents fail to realize is the fact that they are still alive because before this whole "don't trust modern science because it's a plot" mindset took over, their more-enlightened parents had them vaccinated against polio, rubella, and chicken pox. I haven't changed my mind.
ReplyDeleteAnd remember diseases like mumps, measles and smallpox can be more devastating in their damage to adults than children. Kids generally get them with no problems, in adults deafness, blindness and death can occur. And as for these nutty anti-vaxxers, wait til polio makes its crippling and deadly comeback, child death and iron lungs for life anyone ?
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Don't forget that chicken pox have also the side effect of being infertile for men... All those white alfa males should think about it...
DeleteSick that RFK Jr is against vaccines, and yet he, his wife and kids ARE vaccinated !
ReplyDeleteThis effen hypocrite will end up maiming and killing people in the long term, and he’ll be out of office by that time and deny the damage he caused….:(
That last one... terrifying. Whooping Cough has made a comeback... linked to Mothers refusing to vaccinate their kids.
ReplyDeleteEvery single anti-vaxxer should be made to go to graveyards and look at all the headstones forall the little children who died before childhood vaccines. I'm from an old New England family - we have our own family graveyard in Maine going back 200+ years with all the death records - the number of children buried there under the age of 5 is absolutely terrifying right through the 50s. Then ONE. In the past 60 years, ONE child (my mother's youngest cousin who was my age) died of a bad anesthesia reaction in 1974 at age 5 during a tonsillectomy. All relatives. More of them than people who died of old age. The 1918 pandemic killed a half dozen kids and more adults, all within a month or so. People today are just so damned stupid! But they "do their own research".
ReplyDeleteKevin - Stupid is the key word.
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