It's sobering to walk thru an old cemetery and see a cluster of family tombstones for kids that died from diseases like this, often within days. I can't imagine the parental grief. Or why anyone would endanger their kids by NOT getting them vaccinated.
Thanks for reading and for your observation. The idea of losing an entire family, 3-4-5 children within a few days is beyond imagination. My wife and I lost one infant to Sudden Infant Death, the youngest of three. The loss was so great and the tragedy so enormous. It took a couple of years to recover. Losing all of your children at once? No way to imagine how we might have survived.
This is chilling. Thanks for this straight-forward presentation. My mom always preached about the horror of children dying in the hospital where she worked in the 1940s. When the polio vaccine was released, my brothers and sisters and I were among the first in line to get our sugar cube. Unfortunately in today’s world, I’m not sure we’d be able to read this information-especially if it would be detrimental to a political agenda.
My father nearly died of diphtheria as a small child in the 1920s. He must have been so grateful that his own children could be vaccinated for it at an early age. And I'm glad he's no longer here to see our country take big backward steps in the prevention of often fatal illnesses.
It's sobering to walk thru an old cemetery and see a cluster of family tombstones for kids that died from diseases like this, often within days. I can't imagine the parental grief. Or why anyone would endanger their kids by NOT getting them vaccinated.
Thanks for reading and for your observation. The idea of losing an entire family, 3-4-5 children within a few days is beyond imagination. My wife and I lost one infant to Sudden Infant Death, the youngest of three. The loss was so great and the tragedy so enormous. It took a couple of years to recover. Losing all of your children at once? No way to imagine how we might have survived.
This is chilling. Thanks for this straight-forward presentation. My mom always preached about the horror of children dying in the hospital where she worked in the 1940s. When the polio vaccine was released, my brothers and sisters and I were among the first in line to get our sugar cube. Unfortunately in today’s world, I’m not sure we’d be able to read this information-especially if it would be detrimental to a political agenda.
Thank you for these sobering reminders. Disinformation is the scourge of our age.
My father nearly died of diphtheria as a small child in the 1920s. He must have been so grateful that his own children could be vaccinated for it at an early age. And I'm glad he's no longer here to see our country take big backward steps in the prevention of often fatal illnesses.
Yes, it is shocking to see how our health system declined since the '80s. And now it is put at risk again.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Life_expectancy_vs_healthcare_spending.jpg
Interesting to see how effective the diphtheria vaccine was:
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