I'm old enough that I only have to go back one generation to find an aunt who died of polio at the age of nine. I don't want to look forward to see more of that in my lifetime.
It’s already happening.
I remember, at age 5-ish, the entire town lining up at an elementary school for the polio vaccine, little hot pink dots on sugar cubes. People welcomed life saving science then.
Rolling back the Enlightenment. Medieval faith-based beliefs to go with the coming oligarchal neo-feudalism (oligarchs, btw, will continue to give their children every vaccine available, whatever they con the plebs into believing.)
If there is still family around, many old cemeteries/tombstones get refurbished when they become illegible to keep the family history ‘alive’ so to speak.
I recently saw graves of siblings who died at 1 day, 3 months, 2 weeks, a year or 2 apart, and wondered about things like Rh factor that science had not figured out, and no birth control to stop the babies coming. Poor devastated parents.
Sometimes I will see graves of entire families from the flu epidemic period, also.
I think my grandmother kept her son alive from diptheria through pure will.
I live in the heart of southern middle Tennessee MAGA country. I knew over a dozen people who died or had tragic outcomes because they didn’t vaccinate during Covid. All of them supported trump. A few of these people were friends, but when it came to politics, we were far apart. It’s heartbreaking.
I sometimes visit a prairie cemetery in Nebraska. There is a four sided marker that notes the death of a child on each side. They all died within one week. I can't imagine how the parents were strong enough to go on.
I remember my mom telling me that the older generations tried not to get too attached to their kids, because they knew some of them wouldn't make it to adulthood. Hard to imagine that detachment now.
Gen. George Washington REQUIRED vaccination as part of enlistment in the Continental Army during the American Revolution! Benjamin Franklin documented proof of the lower death rate in vaccinated individuals!
I was doing some research on my Swedish ancestors and found this church book from the town of Össjö showing that in just the first three months of 1866 in this tiny town three children died of diphtheria.
And it could become so again. Low infant mortality is due to a modern culture of social medicine. Reject basic medical principles, and any diseases we failed to wipe out completely will eventually raise their heads again.
That’s back now, too. Nearby town (lots of tourist and wanna be hippies/naturalists) keeps having spikes and I believe I’ve read that the elderly should also consider being re-vaccinated for that. My doctors have not mentioned it to me.
I just got an email from my son’s school they had a student diagnosed 🤦🏼♀️ in the age where parents don’t keep their kids home when sick so I’m waiting for the fall out but hoping there isn’t one.
If you’re in the US, you can go to a pharmacy and get a TDAP booster, which covers whooping cough, and which you should get a booster for every ten years anyway. You might have gotten one recently, though, so it’s worth checking.
The “this week in virology” is good on this, and other virus topics. They do a weekly recap of “virus in the news” here’s the episode from yesterday https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1174/
Lived by a large colonial cemetery in Newport, RI, when our kids were early walkers. Took them all the time. Real eye-popper for the pre-vax days. Lot of Here Lies Mary With Infant Daughter/Son stones too. Sober anybody right up.
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Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
I remember, at age 5-ish, the entire town lining up at an elementary school for the polio vaccine, little hot pink dots on sugar cubes. People welcomed life saving science then.
I think my grandmother kept her son alive from diptheria through pure will.
Call Republican Senators and tell them to vote AGAINST RFK Jr. and Trump's other "health" pick fanatics/quacks/fraudsters/freaks.
#CDC #FDA #NIH #HHS #CMS
“Main Street”
HISTORY matters!
Maybe they'll start manufacturing iron lungs in the US
This is not about vaccines, but I found something on what happened to the last woman, who died age 39 https://policememorial.org.uk/memories/catherine-phyllis-godfrey/