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In reply to the discussion: I was a child in a time before there were vaccines for most [View all]Hekate
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Parents knew. Parents were not screwing around with addlepated ideas about vaccines. There was always a risk that someone somewhere would have an adverse reaction to a vaccine -- but there was a much more potent risk that many people right in front of you, in your neighborhood, town, and family, would die or be crippled for life from the actual disease.
I'm just old enough to remember the last big polio epidemic. Parents were terrified, and with good reason.
The shot clinic held in a classroom at my elementary school had families lined up across the playground and down the sidewalk outside the school. The sun went down. The clinic stayed open as long as people kept coming.
My grandchildren are not vaccinated -- my daughter gets her medical information from Face Book. I try not to think about it, I really do.