We need vaccine influencers. People who can tell the story of the pre-vaccine era. Make it real. No judgment, just information.

It wasn’t even that long ago. That’s how amazing the vaccines are.

Yes. There are many people alive in the US today who lived through polio. The MMR vaccine came out in 1971. The Hib vaccine in 1987.

I’m well aware of the history, having lived through it and raised kids through it.

Me too!

The standalone measles vaccine came out in 1963. My brother & I never had measles, but I think all my older cousins did. Important note, especially w/ the current outbreak: there were 2 versions & one didn't work very well, so if you think you got a 1960s-era measles vaccine, maybe get another now.

If you were born before 1957, you don’t need the vaccine. It is assumed you had the measles. When my mom was pregnant with the sixth kid, she had five us under six (including twin babies) with chicken pox and a few months later, measles. I’m sure it was hell for her. (She never got either)

There's more nuanced guidance for people born before 1957 who know they didn't have measles, or work in health care, but in general yes (for the US). If you were born after 1957 but before 1967, you might have gotten the wrong measles vaccine & you should seriously consider getting an MMR now. 1/

If in doubt, a doctor can run a measles titer test.

Yes. Sometimes they say just get the vaccine, it's simpler, & cheaper in the long run. It's kind of up to your doctor, oops, no, your insurance company which way is better (other things being equal, I've observed that the doc is likely to say just get the vaccine).

Um, insurance companies will recommend not doing something that costs money. I trust my doctor. Don’t you?

I think I wasn't clear. The doc will usually recommend the process the insurance co will pay for. Sometimes the insurance co will pay for titers but won't pay for a new shot unless the titers fail. Sometimes the insurance co will agree - just get the shot its simpler. 1/

I've seen docs say "just get the shot" when arguing w/ an insurance co isn't a factor. 2/2

If you grew up outside the US, the birth year before which you're presumed to have gotten the measles may be different, because other countries introduced the measles vaccine later. 2/2

So that would be well after 1957!

Yup.

I experienced measles, whooping cough and chicken pox. I am a strong proponent of vaccines.

It's not good that there's so much underappreciation for the scientific and medical advances made which gave so markedly improved life in the 20th and 21st centuries. Instead people believe in nonsense and false promises...

About 50% of our citizens have the memory of an underachieving hamster

They don’t even remember how donny dictraitor trashed the country the first time.

I never get sunburned, so I don’t understand why I need to keep using sunscreen…

Good point, but the poor English syntax mutes it a bit.

Tragi-comical.

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The problem with vaccines from their perspective, is that they work best on the people they want to get rid of

We must #endthegop They're absolutely setting us up for disaster, isolation from the rest of the world, and unthinkable measures in narcissistic abuse.

Since Donald is a Russian agent and a lot of them get paid by Russia you know what the goal is. Make the country as unsafe as possible and destroy everything.

Exactly. They're weakening our military, our overall health, our education, and our institutions. These are traitors of the most despicable kind. The "gop" and the Heritage Fnd. should be charged with Conspiracy to Dismantle the United States.

Except they did experience it - 5 years ago. Hospitals full up, you couldn't get an appt unless it was urgent, elective surgeries postponed, they reused masks, rationed gloves, wore garbage bags because they didn't have scrubs. Coroners and funeral homes couldn't keep up with all the cadavers.

As an historian, I'd say that is the problem with people who live in an eternal present, and who cannot learn lessons from the past because they know nothing about the past.

How big was the cage #Takei Does #Japanese ppl have any dignity left

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I've hear now it's required to have insurance thanks to RFK Jr.

Thought the requirement is varied by the state ... 🤔

Leading German pandemic responder C. Drosten called this the 'prevention paradox' - a pandemic is declared, scientists warn of the danger/spread, so everyone's careful & getting vaccines. As a result, the spread doesn't occur. Some then question scientists' initial warning. We had the same w/ Y2K.

We just survived Covid in which millions of people died. Then oh look! A vaccine! People who took it stopped dying. It’s so effective that we don’t wear masks anymore. But hey, If you still think vaccines are not effective after living through that, then I have no words. SMH.

Bubonic plague. A vaccine would have changed the world. If only they had the science at the time

My mother was a carrier for diphtheria before vaccines were widespread. She was isolated in her bedroom from her friends as one died as a result of close contact. This was the 1930s in the UK.

They need to visit old graveyards to read the tombstones. So many babies and children lost before they turned five.

Very true and very obvious is you walk the old cemeteries.

The summers we went through in the 40s and 50s, terrified of polio and ending up in an iron lung.

Guess the same goes for horrific wars. Sadly..

Hey, go ahead, try a case of polio and then talk to me about the vaccine!

We're dealing with the people who wanted testing stopped, to keep "the numbers" from going up.

This!!

Let’s all sit back and watch the right wingers experience this and revel in their becoming less of a debilitating factor overall in our lives.

There's a cemetery in my town with a grave of a baby who was born and died on Christmas Day 1912.

Credit goes to Michael Okuda.

So true

Well said. 👏

.......... we know, and others don't want to know......... they never wanted to know anything; I am sure you each recall those kids from High School....

They did it with lockdowns and masking too. "See, it wasn't that bad after all. You all looked silly hiding in your homes." 🤦‍♂️

Hospitals stocked up on PPE as best they could, took lessons from countries that got hit harder earlier, paid attention to the things that worked better… “But Covid was only as bad as the flu!”

Yeah, COVID… only as bad as the flu.

Don't forget Trump could've died from it before the 2020 election. They rushed to put him on a special cocktail most people couldn't get then.

Do you have a source?

meanwhile, it was more republicans that died, especially when they refused the vaccine once it was available

DeSantis had the death counting stopped to hide how bad his state was doing.

Good old Malthus at work again!

Except we just had the worst pandemic in a century, who's handling was so botched it shut down the world economy and killed 1 million Americans who died horribly of suffocation. At this point it's just idiocy.

I blame Trump for causing the pandemic. He shut down the system we had in place for detecting and preventing pandemics. Which had effectively detected and stopped multiple possible pandemics. And then it gets shut down, and whoopsies. Pandemic.

I'll never understand why he wasn't prosecuted, or at least investigated for his handling of Covid. From shutting down the pandemic task force, to letting it run wild in Blue states, to telling people to drink bleach, and Jared hording supplies while hospitals struggled to find PPE.

Just had? The @who.int has never declared the pandemic over. We hit one million *new* daily cases yesterday.

My neighbor is just getting over it-again. She was really sick for about 2 weeks. I so want a booster. Are they really coming?

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i read that Massachusetts is going to make it available for everyone.

Does it mention insurance is required?

They are here and the answer to the question is "Yes." You are eligible. Answer "yes." The pharmacy techs who are giving the shot are pro-vaccine. Yes, you are eligible.

Absolutely! There aren't a lot of people alive who knew people with polio or who had birth defects from German Measles.

Vaccines are victims of their own success. But people in government should be educated enough to know better. This anti-vaccine rhetoric and policy is medieval. bsky.app/profile/sjon...

That is so true.

Also there is the issue of a collective functionally illiterate populace who believe anything they are told as long as a Tiktok cat tells them.

This is a perfect example of why it is important to tell our children our stories. It’s called history.

Like Shelby County v Holder.

Spot on! ‼️📎

That’s what I keep saying. And you don’t want to bring them back.

Exactly.

George, you continue to hit nail on the head. Nick

It makes my day that the director of the GOATed Star Treks II and VI also follows Star Trek values in real life. :)

So we've got a lot of stupid people who don't get it, unless it happens to them. Nazis, fascists, dictators, concentration camps, internment camps, Roe, horrific diseases... How stupid we've become.

Prevention while always more effective is invisible. Reactive while hit and miss always gets the attention when a hit.

Ignorance will drive fear and death for generations

My father had polio as a child in the 1930s. My dad's family hid his infection; claiming the braces on his legs were for a different reason for fear their coummunity would accuse family of not being good christians. He made sure all of us kids were vaccinated I wish there was a vaccine for stupid

None of us experienced the pre-vaccine US of 1900 - when nearly 20% of children died of contagious diseases before age 5. But our children might… www.lung.org/blog/child-v....

RFK: We're not Anti-Vax .. we are Pro-Natural Selection. bsky.app/profile/opsa... Some have fallen into the trap: "RFK said something sensible a while back; therefore, he must be trustworthy". He did, but he's not.

Amen to that.. I dare them.

Indeed. Very well said…

that is clearly one of the problems. Too many dishonest snakeoil preachers promoting lies for their own personal profit to people that are healthy and alive because of generations before them experiecing a pre-vax world

Totally.

Honestly, there’s nothing from stopping these anti-science lunatics from going after all the measures we’ve put in place to make driving safer, or all the stringent requirements airlines have to follow to keep planes from crashing. It’s all the same moronic “freedom” argument.

Exactly

Succinct explanation of today's apathy. Words apparently mean nothing. Someone should pay for billboards featuring pictures of iron lungs, kids in polio braces, and refrigerated morgue trucks and a line of hundreds of people waiting for the Salk vaccine with the headline: YOU CHOOSE. Vote.

The same is true of Nazis. And deregulating banks.

I put up pictures of Polio victims, and yet the MAGATs keep insisting that it doesn't matter.

This applies to everything that brought us to where are today. Most can’t see past their own noses. We live in a spoiled-rotten country. It’s all about “me, me, me!”

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But “they” will always have their vaccines

One way or another natural selection is going to win.

Exactly. Wait til they start taking out large portions of the population again. Polio, smallpox. Then they'll be crying for their vaccines.

The worst part is that even in a worst case scenario where something like Measles mutates and is able to evade existing vaccines, these idiots will still be trying to blame 5g Towers or some other bullshit even as the bodies pile up.

Yep 👍🏻 and therefore amplifies the need to make sure EVERYONE is publicly well educated on all sciences

That's EXACTLY what I have been saying for the past 5 years. None of them experienced an outbreak in school, because they were all vaccinated.

Precisely!

Take them to the old part of the cemetery, let them look upon the children's headstones 🪦. 🗽🇪🇺🇺🇦🌻

They have tracked back almost all of the antivaxxer propaganda to Russia. Russia has been spewing fake news about it for decades. Prior to the pandemic, they used to release most of their nonsense via Facebook once a week through five or six fake accounts.

Prior to the Hib vaccine, one out of 200 young children got very, very ill from this disease you have probably never even heard of. Around 1000 children died every year in the US, and around 15,000 to 20,000 children per year had permanent hearing loss, seizures, and/or mental retardation.

Florida’s about to provide the real world example of a world without vaccines.

One of the most wholesome things I read recently was a vampire story, where a vampire who had been a plague doctor in the 1500’s woke up in the modern era, and after adjustment period, he promptly went out and partied HARD when he found out Polio, Measles, and other diseased had been eradicated.

The story was about vampire society as a whole being revealed, so there was an undertone of understanding at some points. Like, that vampire is at a bar, pouring brandy into a cup of blood and crying from happiness, and people around him are going, “Dafuq is with him?”

Upon finding out he’s celebrating because the horribly disfiguring diseases he’d fought against long before being turned, and he’d lost family members to, were eradicated, some people joined in with him. Generally just a good vibes story.

Do you remember the name of the story? I would like to read it!

where can I find this story? I want to read it!

Me, too!

This is precisely it. There are far too many ignorant, Dunning-Kruger effect individuals who can't recognize anything happening before their first waking memories and are far too susceptible to the propaganda of special interests constantly looking to scam them that they reject facts.

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The real problem is they eliminate the “natural survival of the fittest” biological phenomenon and let the weaker among us live. Us inferior people living & procreating is not part of their plan. The white Christian Supremacists & the Billionaire Bros are eugenicists, end of.

Well said 👍👍

Exactly

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Same w LGBTQ rights. Younger generations assume gays have always had rights and can’t imagine a world where we don’t. Same with women’s rights. Abortion rights….etc…

Not just vaccines. People who never lived through the trials of the past have no basis for understanding what came before. This is why the fight is over education and informing people of the horrors of the past. And why MAGA is trying to whitewash everything. MAGA wants the past to be great again.

Hard for them to indoctrinate kids if they read books and learn to think for themselves.

Hence the assault on the education system.

Facts,

Well they get to FAFO now . I has the light version on measles in the 1960s chixen pox too it wasn't fun. Still have one scar on my face

Hearts and minds

I never met my Uncle. Why? Because age 4 he never got a vaccine for a preventable disease and died. My grandmother had to live with that guilt all her life. We didn’t even know where his grave was. Vaccines save lives!

My grandmother, 98, had polio. She would have not survived or at the very least been unable to walk to her family didn't do everything in their ability when she wasn't in the hospital. She has always struggles w/ the damage to one of her legs. It's monsterous that we R bringing back polio.

Touchdown Dr. Lucky Tran. We can’t seem to learn anything from our successes or our mistakes. Sad. 😔

Unfortunately, we're about to.

That’s the same problem we are having with liberalism and democracy.

An anti vaxxer once told me in the other place that we don’t need to have Polio vaccinations because quote ‘no-one gets it’.

That post is pharma propaganda designed to fool ignorant people. Dig into the topic in detail and that post evaporates.

Simply said: The lack of proper education makes people ignorant. One doesn't need to experience history to understand and learn from it.

It’s like having break-ins at your place, so you have an alarm system installed, and you notice that break-ins have stopped. You decide the alarm system costs too much, so you remove the alarm system…and break-ins return.

Great analogy!

Not just removing the alarm, but also getting rid of locks.

Economist Justin Wolfers compared it to taking the batteries out of your smoke alarm: it stops beeping, but then your house catches fire.

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I couldn't have said it better.

I said it before when it was looking like measles would become a huge problem… my younger brother got it BEFORE we had vaccines and was nearly deaf in one ear from the infection. Wake up Floridians. You’re being brainwashed…again…by your idiot leaders. It is it traitorous leaders? 🤔

Vaccines were the single greatest invention of mankind, but people have the memory of a goldfish. They are too stupid the crack a history book. They don’t learn from the past. So bring on the diseases. Time to educate a new group of morons.

Problem is, the folks who will truly suffer are the ones who are too young to make the decision not to get vaccinated. I dislike the innocent suffering for the stupidity of others.

there is no one more unfortunate than the children with republican parents

that part really pisses me off to. kids don't choose to be born. they don't choose to have shitty parents. and they don't choose to not be vaccinated and die from a preventable disease

I'm 63. As children we all lined up at school for vaccines because our parents wanted us protected. Of course it was done to protect SOCIETY, not just us.

Natural Selection?

Vaccine Deniers could check out some cemeteries and see the number of babies and children who died in the first 50 years of the 20th century, but I don’t think they could handle the math.

In one rural cemetery in S. IL lie several families from the early 1900s. One long row of graves is 7 children, same surname, dead before age 10. Mother’s date of death was after 6 of them, followed by the 13 y o who must have nursed her mother at the end. Modern Americans have no idea.

My 17yo daughter was saying this just last night. As she put it, "Oh, fewer people are dying in fires? Well we should do away with smoke detectors since we obviously don't need them to save lives!" And then there was swearing about stupid people. Lots of swearing :)

Our fat fascist rapist is terrorizing our citizens, tanking our economy so he can BUY THINGS, and dumping vaccines like he has a fucking playbook from Putin. Putin's playbook: terror, illness, poverty, starvation, pandemics. Misery. WHO DOES HE WORK FOR? NOT US!

Isn't that called the third generation problem?

YES!!!

Why do I need brakes on my car? I have never rear ended anyone.

"Deregulate car use, FREEDUMB, FREEDUMB!!!"

People on antidepressants know. If it doesn't feel like it's working anymore but you are still "more productive". They are working.

No, the virus was not created in a lab. No, the CDC didn’t lie. No, Antony Fauci did not make people anti-vax. No, there is no common ground to work with Junior.

That maybe true but it’s no excuse ! They don’t have to remember what horrific disease looked like they can look at world history before it gets edited by Trump and cronies.

So he’s basically saying people are stupid, I grew up in the vaccinated world and have NEVER questioned weather disease was a problem 🤷‍♀️ and was never taught anything like that in school 🙄🙄🙄

This is exactly right.

and it looks like that will be happening in the near future with billionaries picking up the pieces and keeping them.

People should have to walk through a cemetery with their kids and count all the died under 10 yo graves pre-1960s and tell their kids that that’s the future they’ve selected for them.

100% spot on 🫶

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Perhaps the problem is one of semantics. Smallpox isn’t eradicated, really. It is driven down to nearly zero, but it could rear its ugly head again under the right conditions. Ditto polio, etc. Proof that vaccines work, but also that pathogens never give up. And how easily humans forget.

Coming to a town near you very soon. Plenty of stupid out there.

They are back. Diseases that the U.S. had all but eliminated decades ago through mass vaccination campaigns have returned. Those of us who grew up with friends and family who were polio victims will never forget the frustration.... nautil.us/our-dark-unv...

yes, exactly👍

Think about all those people who DIED because Trump allowed Covid to explode before the vaccine stopped that.

Same about war at home...

Yes ! This matches up with what I have been saying. It’s the same deal with wars. People now don’t know what it’s like to almost lose a major war. Some people are wayyy younger to comfy

...or, Vaccines prevent illnesses for which treatments cost medical companies $$$ in potential revenue. Healthy life is worthless to a shareholder.

I think both can be true, that Covid is so very dangerous & that we also need to make vaccines safer, I had an adverse reaction to a vaccine, I don’t think they ARE totally safe for some people, we need more testing, for something so important

You can say the same about the US Constitution! Now, people are learning it and realizing we didn't get where we were without a guide. I, for one, am one of those people!

This is exactly what my husband and I have been saying. 🎯

I've always said that they're the reason people are alive today too have these shitty opinions. How human.

That's only part of it, in fact, it's the smaller part. They have been convinced that science is bad, that natural immunity is better, that vaccines are ONLY produced to make money for big pharma and that vaccines are actively dangerous.

Well, it wouldn't be quite so bad if, you know, politicians and media weren't constantly blasting antivax misinformation on loudspeakers.

Applies to representative Democracy...

The smart reaction would be to thank the Scientist who protect our lives.

They are going to find out soon with their own children.

some of their children have died and they still don't care. FFS

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It’s literally written in stone. Go to a graveyard and look at all the infant and child deaths before the 1960s.

Nature is actively trying to kill us. We had vaccines to get around that. Now the US wants those "glory days" of death & disease it seems. I wonder why Big Pharma companies aren't reacting? Is it because they know the second enough kids die, the gov't will be ordering everything?

Big Pharma doesn't like vaccines. They are too effective and too cheap for them to make a profit. And since they are given to healthy kids, there is a risk of being sued over the few adverse reactions that do occur.

So we're doomed. Great.

Most likely because you can make money from the vaccine or from the drugs to try to treat the disease to stop it killing people - it's all money to them

I guess so. Like everything else these days, it seems so evil.

This is EXACTLY the problem. Somehow they think the immunity they enjoy now is the result of a belief in a God or good diet and exercise; when actually it’s the result of herd immunity created by vaccines. However, that herd immunity is beginning to break down as people don’t vaccinate their kids

Totally. Such remarkable stupidity 😣

Very well said 👏

Perhaps so, but what this actually demonstrates is how deadly an ill-informed populace can be. Those who forget history . . ..

My 82YO father serves as a daily reminder for our family. Long before the MMR vaccine, his mother contracted the measles while pregnant. He was born premature and blind and he considers himself lucky to be alive. My heart breaks and fills with rage for the UNNECESSARY suffering to come.

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So vaccines are a self-defeating phenomenon? I think it’s one of the results of a STEM deficiency in American culture. It is not true everywhere else.

They are still in the F around stage. Sadly, they will soon be in the find out stage.

Exactly!

Kind of like anti-depressants being effective such that the person taking them thinks they no longer need them.

Amen

Altho truthfully I had all those childhood diseases. Not really advocating for that, but where I draw the line is something like polio.

Yep, that part!

Unfortunately the average person will not listen to older people or scientists or people with medical training. They won’t even walk about an old cemetery and count the (horrific) number of children & babes.

This will change anytime soon if RFK keeps going.

Go to an old cemetary and witness all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 1960s. After that you hardly find any. That's when people started vaccinating their kids. If you're unsure about whether to vaccinate your kids, the answer is literally written in stone. Vaccines work.

For me, it's growing up with all the old men with wasted limbs from polio. The vaccine meant that fear didn't exist in my generation.

I remember as a kid getting in the long line with my parents to take the new oral polio vaccine when it became available for the masses. Sad for me is remembering one girlfriend in college had a shorter leg due to polio.

see the same ‘problem’ with not having had a global conflict in 80 years.

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See also war.

Like a great lady once said, like throwing away your umbrella because you aren't getting wet.

Sadly, the same can be said for peace. People never live the horror of war so see no problem with getting into one. Unfortunately it's also those impacted the LEAST in both cases that make the decisions that kill everyone else.

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I call it affluenza.

there is no vaccine for stupidity

And they're so fucking stupid they don't get it.

That’s true. I remember when I got the measles. I got my COVID booster today before there aren’t any.

And yet, the diseases are mostly still out there, just waiting, biding their time, after all, measles is resurging, the black death has popped up in the US in a few places, and of course the C19 pandemic still rolls on, anti-vax is just evolution in action, survival of the smartest...

Yeah, it's not like we have any kind of records from the olden times prior to THE 19 FUCKING 50's so people will remember. No excuse. No excuse for ANY of this administrations fuckery. We have a more comprehensive knowlege of history than any generation of our species has ever had.

IDK I think we've all experienced a disease that killed millions before there was a vaccine.

Dr Tran nailed it.

The problem with the vaccine was Governor Mike DeWine saying they'll do it because we'll make them do it. I'll die on that hill. That's fine

When I was a kid these childhood diseases ran rampant: polio chickenpox measles mumps rubella. I remember. 😭

It’s been said for some time that vaccines are victims of their own success. They are also victims of corporate greed - varicella vaccines cost at least $200 a dose.

These people have a cognitive dissonance with cause and effect. #vaccines #antivax

If you know history… you would know how gd important these vaccines are & it took millennia to live it, study it & diagnose it, define diseases & centuries of lab work .. from the plague to measles & everything in between… we wouldn’t created any vaccines if it weren’t dire

And their education systems have failed.

They should take a walk in an old cemetery. There's an incredible number of little graves

We have a historic family cemetery, very close to our home. My wife’s family settled the area we live in around 1860. The youngsters buried in the family plot is disturbing and eye opening

It made me sad. So many little ones died. Their parents must have been heartbroken

It was so common, and people had loads of babies, they didn’t grieve has deeply, because it was always accepted that they would lose some children to disease.. not that they weren’t sad about it.. it was just how it was

And a lot of women died in child birth. Just because it was common did not make it right.

This is an important point. Those who were alive for polio and measles as well as WWII and McCarthy, are not naïve about the diseases or the fascism. Been there, done that. We KNOW it can happen.

Vaccines are good... Mike Lindell's snake oil is not.

The real disease is the felon trump and has followers.

They should talk to parents, older siblings and grandparents who probably have experience of these diseases. My sister still suffers the after effects of polio, my sister in law was one of the last cases reported in Canberra in Australia, these things are within living memory

He’s right, w resp to public perception. But, w resp to Kennedy, he rejects the causal connection between germs and infectious diseases. So he would still reject it.

i hope he gets an incurable disease and dies asap

Exactly.

#VictimOfTheirOwnSuccess

Kind of like reproductive rights

We as a people need to bring back around the concept of the greater good.

And very true!

Time to start telling everyone what it was like!

Cycling like the horrors of fascism right now.

I think the problem with vaccines is that straight men will make up ALL SORTS of crazy excuses to avoid being penetrated. Even if it's just for a second and by a 23 gauge needle.

Because there are no female anti-vaxxers? And no gay anti-vaxxers? And the anti-vaxx secretary of hhs wasn't injecting himself with heroin for 14 years? Must be it then.

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One only needs to any city's older part of a cemetery to look at the average age people died 100 years ago. The amount of 20-40 year olds who passed before the age of vaccines is stunning.

Most of us wouldn't even be here without vaccines, food regulations, chemical and industrial regulations, clean air & water. And if we were, we'd have all passed away by 40 for one reason or another.

Except that's not what happened My generation had no problem with vaccines right up until Oprah repeatedly featured Jenny McCarthy with *expert* Dr Oz scaring 20yr old women into believing vaccines cause autism But for those 3, the anti-vax movement would've remained fringe They mainstreamed it

Unfortunately, thanks to RFK, that is about to change. How long before parents grow tired of burying their children? How many preventable deaths must occur before they see the light and return to science? And will the charlatans ever be held accountable for the unconscionable?

This is the medical equivalent of the Dunning/Kruger Effect.

My mother almost died of whooping cough as a baby in 1950, and my high school music teacher walked with crutches and metal leg braces from polio. I truly distrust the medical industry, but we can't have a society without vaccines.