I remember when I was a kid, seeing TV news reports showing rows upon rows of iron lungs filled with children.
The disease was deadly, and if it didn’t kill you, it could cripple you. It was scary. Then this guy named Jonas Salk invented a vaccine, and everyone lined up in school to get the vaccine. I was frightened by the stories my classmates told me about how bad the vaccine was. When I got the shot, it hurt, and a sore popped up on the injection site. My vaccination scar has finally faded after all these years. Later they came up with an oral vaccine, and we all lined up again to drink it.
But, remarkably, polio was all-but eradicated.
As a child I suffered through all the childhood diseases: mumps (twice), measles, and chickenpox. Luckily, I didn’t realize at the time how deadly those diseases were.
Then vaccines all-but- eliminated those diseases. God was in his heaven and all was right with the world until…
In 1998 a “researcher” named Wakefield wrote a bogus paper falsely claiming a connection between vaccines and autism. Worldwide news agencies screamed the dangers of vaccination. News that Wakefield and his colleagues had purposely falsified their results got scant attention.
So here we are today, Hell-bent on returning to those dark days of the 1950’s when children died of diseases we can now prevent. And all because a lie can go around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
As an excuse for ending mandatory vaccinations, our Surgeon General, Joseph Lapado says mandatory vaccination is a form of slavery. We've got rights, don't we? We can make our own decisions without being dictated to by the government, can't we? My right to swing my arm ends at your nose. Some inconvenience is necessary in this crowded world to keep people healthy. And we will not stay healthy without mandatory vaccinations.
Here's a link to the web article that talks about the bogus vaccine study and the harm it did:
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