re: #307 HappyWarrior

Exactly, that’s my point about short term memory. I see it a lot in other policies and issues too. Whereas the older generation who knew how bad the condition was that led to the innovation in the first place has died out, the younger generations who have never experienced it directly tend to ignore it. To me, it’s basically the same product of those that think cutting so called entitlements is a good policy.

I had an aunt who had polio - she was left with leg braces for the rest of her life. The cruel irony? She contracted polio less than one year before the vaccine came out.

I’ve seen the effects of polio with my own eyes, and I can well appreciate what a scourge it was. Unfortunately, thanks to the anti-vaxxers, who knows? Maybe the millennial generation will get to see it for themselves.

*headdesk*