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Couldn’t agree more. My father, who is 72, recalls that when he was young there would be periodic outbreaks of polio and this would scare the shit out of people because there was as yet no vaccine available and a very real risk of catching it. People who refuse vaccines for their lids have no sense of history, proportion, or of any kind really. They are free and will stop them catching diseases that will kill or maim them. They are a Good Thing. Children are, in fact “someone else.” Hear, hear! Too many parents don’t seem to understand the distinction between “my children” and “my property”. My mother, who is 65, had polio as a child and it’s been the bane of her life ever since, starting with problems with her feet and eventually resulting in post-polio syndrome. Decades of debilitating pain could have been prevented if a vaccine had been available. |
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