re: #77 ausador

I suppose he wants to see polio and smallpox back killing tens of thousands every year. Hell talk to anyone over 55 about what polio was like, how theaters and other public venues were closed to children in the summer when it ran rampant. There were over 60,000 cases in 1952 with more than 3000 deaths and thousands of others maimed for life from it. If vaccines don’t work how is it that we have practically eradicated it?

He. Is. An. Idiot.

I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating. A trip through any graveyard that’s been around a century or longer will reveal the horrible truth of what life in pre-vaccination eras was like. They are packed to the rafters with children, from infants through teenagers. They far outnumber the adults buried there up through the ’40s or ’50s. And nearly all of them were felled by viral diseases now easily prevented by vaccines.

Or, up until their deaths just a few years ago, you could have talked to my grandparents, who grew up in an age where they watched childhood friends fall to whooping cough, diptheria and measles, where adults and children both were routinely scythed down by smallpox and those few who survived it’s scourge remained horribly scarred for life afterward. They viewed the development of vaccines and public vaccination as nothing short of miracles, and given a chance I have no doubt my grandmother would take Maher’s and McCarthy’s hides off with a brass brush, followed by a rubdown with rock salt if she heard them spewing this garbage while she was alive.

I’d like to personally airdrop both of them in any of a number of third world countries where vaccination isn’t routine, so they can see first hand the effects of the idiocy they’re proposing when people have no choice but to follow it.