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BadGimp

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37. re: Were there? - there absolutely were!

Sun Aug 8, 2021, 09:36 PM

Aug 2021

A key difference then was there was no vast organized effort to exploit the ignorant and rile them up for political purposes like there is today.

Today we have multiple media networks that work hard to capture the attention of these people and direct their resulting frustrations and anger. The media is after the money and a shit ton of money is working alongside and behind them.

Ignorance and crazy have always been with us, we just never had an industry spring up around it like we do today.

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I remember getting the Polio Vaccine..There were no "ANTI VAXXERS"..then!...Were there? [View all] Stuart G Aug 2021 OP

A few outlier religious groups refused the polio vax viva la Aug 2021 #1

Back then the right wing thought fluoridation of drinking water was a communist plot Walleye Aug 2021 #3

I thought it was the most dangerous and monstrously conceived... nycbos Aug 2021 #22

Perfect. But I remember we had a chronic letter to the editor writer who was against fluoridation. Walleye Aug 2021 #24

Eisenhower was president. And he believed in promoting the general welfare of the American people Walleye Aug 2021 #2

There was also a higher level of trust in science TheProle Aug 2021 #26

Yes it's infuriating to those of us who came of age in the 60s Walleye Aug 2021 #28

Same experience here - NO antivaxxers - none jpak Aug 2021 #4

No, and trmp was a mere 'child.' elleng Aug 2021 #5

He's never been more. And he's never been Maru Kitteh Aug 2021 #13

Back then the anti's lacked standing, only personal egoic opinion sanatanadharma Aug 2021 #6

Yes, ....THE INTERNET.....has ....."THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY"..to quote someone.. Stuart G Aug 2021 #10

There was no Fox News. sarcasmo Aug 2021 #7

Ha ha. Look below. marybourg Aug 2021 #11

Ha... sarcasmo Aug 2021 #12

There was good polio vax acceptance, but this 1930's comic depicting SMALLPOX ANTI-VAXXERS hlthe2b Aug 2021 #8

Excellent article. crickets Aug 2021 #15

They were rooting against our Olympic athletes. We're lost Walleye Aug 2021 #29

There was no Fox News. marybourg Aug 2021 #9

Fortunately for me, my mother wasn't anti-vaxx. greatauntoftriplets Aug 2021 #14

I remember people in my neighborhood saying the vaccine gave you polio. Jim__ Aug 2021 #16

The mistake was that Cutter Labs did not put in enough formaldehyde to kill the live virus womanofthehills Aug 2021 #25

We lined up at school... and that was that. ananda Aug 2021 #17

Yep. And I remember kids in front of me screaming their heads off. Scottie Mom Aug 2021 #20

Oh, so you were standing behind my baby sister, were you? Hekate Aug 2021 #34

So...is she a red head? Scottie Mom Aug 2021 #36

I'm certain that even Donald Trump got the polio shot as a child Walleye Aug 2021 #30

Those photos and news stories of polio victims Deminpenn Aug 2021 #18

Also no Facebook either. Initech Aug 2021 #19

Our parents weren't paranoid Nazi assholes. Chainfire Aug 2021 #21

as soon as the polio vaccine was available mom malaise Aug 2021 #23

Children were dying. People were extremely fearful. I was a kid then and kids enough Aug 2021 #27

Maybe there might have been a few, but we never heard of them FakeNoose Aug 2021 #31

I was only about five years old at the time, but I don't remember any resistance. Brother Mythos Aug 2021 #32

No scar from the polio vax -- that was from the smallpox vaccination. Mine was the size of a dime... Hekate Aug 2021 #39

You're right, I was clearly mistaken. Brother Mythos Aug 2021 #41

No problem. I was amused when a nurse called over a student nurse to show her my ancient scar... Hekate Aug 2021 #42

Yes, but they were few & our parents called them "religious nuts" Hekate Aug 2021 #33

As a kid, I hated that shot Poiuyt Aug 2021 #35

re: Were there? - there absolutely were! BadGimp Aug 2021 #37

Nope. Just a whole lot of really relieved people. nt leftyladyfrommo Aug 2021 #38

There was a hot vaccine. ... my Mom called my Dad Demsrule86 Aug 2021 #40