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Don't you get tired of fear mongering
That is what I am waiting for you to do! -
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Increases in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks threaten years of progress
I too grimace when I read the anti-vaccination nonsense and the nonsense about there being no such thing as a virus or bacteria and it makes my blood boil. I too was born in the UK just after the Second World War and remember getting the MMR vaccination and my mother was very pleased that I did, however polio was still around in those days and I had many experiences with kids who had contracted it, so my mother was extremely pleased when the vaccination became available for polio sometime in the mid-50s. But already the effects of polio on children were all around us and the leg irons and wheelchairs were a common sight. In fact I spent the first seven years or so of my school life being the "carer" for a boy called Peter who had contracted polio and was paralysed from the waist down, pushing him around in his wheelchair in the two schools that we went to. I also remember other kids with leg irons on and in those days I wondered what had caused this, and of course as the information about polio and the vaccine to prevent it became available, it became quite clear. One of the saddest times was when I was in my teens and there was a particular coffee shop in my town which kids of my age would use as a meeting place, and in that coffee shop I met a quite lovely/very attractive girl who would have been about 17 or 18 and she had contracted polio and she was basically paralysed from the waist down so she wore the leg irons, but she had a great personality and didn't seem to let it bother her. Furthermore her parents were fairly wealthy, so they bought her a little three wheeler car (similar to the Reliant Robin I think) and adapted it so that she could basically drive it (don't ask me how) and that's how she came to visit our coffee shop. I hadn't seen her for a while and wondered as to her whereabouts, and it was then that I heard she had died, having crashed the little car and being trapped in it because of her leg irons, and was burnt to death – – poor girl. So all in all, I don't have good memories of polio and I'm so pleased that I was able to get vaccinated and the amount of vaccinations I've had over my life, including quite a few for tetanus for injuries, and from football, and various vaccinations for diseases when I worked overseas in Africa, have probably saved my life. I haven't counted how many but it would easily be in double figures. I admire the posters on here who take the time to do their research and explain the ins and outs of vaccines and vaccinations and the stats which are provided, including trying to disprove the absolute nonsense which is posted, but as can be seen, it is an uphill task trying to educate those that cannot be educated. -
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What is the purpose of life?
If you feel like that, what do you see as a solution? -
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Don't you get tired of fear mongering
That's what I thought , then you yourself confirm it , your one smart guy🤡 regards Worgeordie -
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