How A Vaccine Mandate Helped Defeat Small Pox At The Start Of The 20th Century - Ali Velshi - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Ali Velshi looks back at the implementation of a small pox vaccine mandate in Boston in 1901 and how successful the program was at eradicating the disease and resilient the mandate was to legal challenge in the Supreme Court. Aired on 07/29/2021.

[SheltieLover]

1. Indeed!

[Rhiannon12866]

4. I still remember my grandmother's vaccine scar on her arm

[MiniMe]

9. Mine is on my leg

Not sure when they stopped giving them, I'm 64, and everybody my age got one

[littlemissmartypants]

2. Another great post! Thanks Rhi! ❤

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Because everyone got the vaccine back in the day, no one needs to get it now

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Yep. It's amazing what we can accomplish when we all pull together.

It's a sad state of affairs we live in today.

I remember that sugar cube like it was yesterday.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could dispense the Covid vaccine that way? I wonder if it would help? I'm afraid we are finding out what a bunch of idiotic contrarians we share the world with. I just don't get it. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

❤

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Did anyone behave this way before or is it the current crop of RW obstructionists??

I remember getting vaccines when I was a kid in school - right at school! And a few years ago I took my friend to get the MMR vaccine when she returned to college. She wasn't allowed to attend classes unless she got it. And The Carter Center's most important work now is working to eradicate preventable diseases in other countries. I remember getting that sugar cube, too, and I don't enjoy getting a shot, but I just don't watch. Since when has preventing deadly disease become politically controversial??

[littlemissmartypants]

7. I guess there have always been contrarians but I don't remember it being this bad.

I guess we hear more about it with our 24 hour "news" cycle. I just don't get it. It's so counterintuitive.

[cstanleytech]

8. Maybe time to link taxes to vaccinations?

You get 1000 off on your taxes for every person in your household that has been vaccinated but only if everyone in the household has been vaccinated.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. We need vaccine mandates