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> But I bet that millennials have no personal experience with it at all. Mass vaccination started in the late 50s and especially early 60s (with Sabin’s oral v

> But I bet that millennials have no personal experience with it at all. Mass vaccination started in the late 50s and especially early 60s (with Sabin’s oral vaccine). Millennials start in 1981, so they would / could well have known affected adults.

ponector 3y ago
Considering current antivax movement, it is not unusual for people to get sick with polio, even some got paralyzed. It is hard to understand for me how people can intentionally increase risks of deadly diseases for their children.
- arlcode 3y ago
  Complacency and political/financial benefits for some of the people paddling that shit, a world where public policy is only a team sport and everybody's opinion on expert topics is equally "valuable". I really hope we find a way out of this before to long. In the end (polio) vaccines work and praying/magic doesn't, so I'm positive we will be able to learn the same lessons our ancestors did.
- bequanna 3y ago
  Antivax movement? Are you assuming everyone who was not interested in the COVID vaccine just plain doesn’t believe in vaccines?
  - ponector 3y ago
    There is a difference in "not interested in receiving COVID vaccine" and fighting against vaccination in general, refusing to vaccinate children with mandatory shots like MMR or polio.
    - bequanna 3y ago
      Yes, there absolutely is a difference and the second group is incredibly small. I think it is important to make that distinction.
      - ponector 3y ago
        It is not small. Have you heard that vaccines cause autism? It is a popular believe of antivaxxers. So popular that >25% of kids in London are not vaccinated. 1/4 is huge and could compromise herd immunity. > Only 74% of children under five in London have received both doses of the MMR vaccine – 9.1 points lower than in 2013–14.
skinkestek 3y ago
I'm born around that time although before 1981. I had some elderly neighbors with this condition and I think they lived long enough (1990 maybe?) that my two next younger brothers might have visited them too. (Why I don't know: they were not relatives or anything, my mom and aunt just used to visit them to be nice to them, so I suspect when I started school they might have taken my place.)

ponector 3y ago

Considering current antivax movement, it is not unusual for people to get sick with polio, even some got paralyzed. It is hard to understand for me how people can intentionally increase risks of deadly diseases for their children.

arlcode 3y ago
Complacency and political/financial benefits for some of the people paddling that shit, a world where public policy is only a team sport and everybody's opinion on expert topics is equally "valuable". I really hope we find a way out of this before to long. In the end (polio) vaccines work and praying/magic doesn't, so I'm positive we will be able to learn the same lessons our ancestors did.
bequanna 3y ago
Antivax movement? Are you assuming everyone who was not interested in the COVID vaccine just plain doesn’t believe in vaccines?
- ponector 3y ago
  There is a difference in "not interested in receiving COVID vaccine" and fighting against vaccination in general, refusing to vaccinate children with mandatory shots like MMR or polio.
  - bequanna 3y ago
    Yes, there absolutely is a difference and the second group is incredibly small. I think it is important to make that distinction.
    - ponector 3y ago
      It is not small. Have you heard that vaccines cause autism? It is a popular believe of antivaxxers. So popular that >25% of kids in London are not vaccinated. 1/4 is huge and could compromise herd immunity. > Only 74% of children under five in London have received both doses of the MMR vaccine – 9.1 points lower than in 2013–14.

skinkestek 3y ago

I'm born around that time although before 1981. I had some elderly neighbors with this condition and I think they lived long enough (1990 maybe?) that my two next younger brothers might have visited them too. (Why I don't know: they were not relatives or anything, my mom and aunt just used to visit them to be nice to them, so I suspect when I started school they might have taken my place.)