The "problem" with vaccines

[True Dough]

[Irish_Dem]

1. Yes I have often thought vaccines are a victim of their own success.

[marble falls]

2. Exactly right. 80% of the population was born after Polio.

[lapfog_1]

3. In the words of Douglas Adams

"lets deport all the useless telephone sanitizers" from the planet Golgafrincham.

All of the remaining citizens of Golgafrincham die of a horrible virulent disease spread through the use of telephones.

[NNadir]

4. One of my earliest memories is of my parents rushing to get me a polio vaccine.

They knew.

K&R

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. People too dull to learn history and too stupid to think about it. . . . . . nt

[skypilot]

6. This might be a good place to ask this.

I can't remember the name for the phenomenon the OP alludes to but there is a name for it when people think that something that has solved a problem isn't needed or necessary because they have never experienced the problem that has been solved by the very thing that they now want to get rid of. I was reading a discussion about this somewhere recently. Can anyone help me here?

[KS Toronado]

7. RFK syndrome ?

I made that up, kinda fits.

[NNadir]

8. I can't think of a better word than "complacency."

If there is a better word, I don't know it.

[progressoid]

11. Historical revisionism?

[NNadir]

9. It seems to me this post needs another kick.

[Niagara]

10. Kick!!

[canetoad]

12. I wonder if eventually

He will start dissing antibiotics.