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Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS
I wasn't there, but I am fairly certain that Eisenhower didn't spend a year loudly downplaying how bad polio was thus creating a mass of people believing that mitigation efforts against polio were an afront to their political leader and their 'movement' to such a degree that taking the vaccine when it came followed the same pattern.
They knew how bad poilio was because they lived it and weren't being fed daily bull**** that the reality was something other than it was. My father-in-law described the vaccine as seeming like a miracle when it arrived and getting a shot was viewed as not only self preservation and protection for his children but an act of good citizenship. A patriot act.
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I was there. I took my sugar cube--which still tasted like medicine.
We all saw kids walking around (sort of, because they had polio, you know) and were scared poop-less. We did not want that. Too many people don't fear COVID the way we feared polio. For me, the biggest problem has been, and continues to be, not showing the pain and suffering of those with the disease. Horrible death will get through to even the densest of morons if they can't avoid seeing it wherever they go. Forget about sensibilities and privacy for those with the disease. I want the anti-vaccine morons to have death thrust in their faces. Repeatedly until every last one of us is vaccinated.
Absolutely no one spoke against the vaccine, least of all real leaders like Ike. Not even the Commies tried to make light of this.
This country has changed in many ways, a lot of good, a lot of bad. The real issue is that too many people can't agree on the good and bad parts.