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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All
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From: gg cox9/7/2025 10:05:48 AM
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From Quora and to RFK the junior.

“” I grew up in the 1950s and parents stood in line for hours with their kids to get them vaccinated. They had seen what happened before vaccinations. My grandmother lost her 2 youngest kids to diphtheria. When my parents got married in the 1930s they bought cemetery plots not just for themselves but for 4 possible children They were able to sell them after we grew up. It was expected people would have children die. My grandfather had a family before he married my grandmother. They all died his wife and their 5 kids. My mother was born in Texas in 1918 her mother died of the flu about 6 weeks later. We went to the cemetery a dozen or so years ago. There was my mother’s mother’s grave and 3 graves of infants who died unnamed and a son named Paul who died at 11 months and a son named Arthur who died at 2 years. My parents made damned sure we had every possible vaccination available. They knew the dangers, they had lived through them.“”

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“” Yes, they were required, and I remember one occasion when they were administered in the school. In first or second grade we were all lined up and filed into the administration building were a nurse inoculated each of us against small pox (yes, this was a while back).

I also have a vivid memory of my mother driving my sister and me to a bank where nurses were giving polio vaccinations. It was a long line; people knew what polio was back then and could not get their kids vaccinated soon enough. Sadly, it was too late for my friend, Robbie. He got polio before a vaccine was available and has spent his life in a wheel chair.

Have I vaccinated my children? Damned right I have! I am glad that these diseases are now rare, but I sometimes wish “antivacers” knew what these diseases can do to a child. Those of us who have seen what they do are very “provac”.“”
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