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Originally Posted by graciegirl
For many of us vaccines against Mumps, Measles, Whooping Cough were not yet available. In Columbus, Ohio in 1945 people were quarantined by the health department for these illnesses and there was a sign on your door. They did kill, and caused brain damage, and deafness. I am so grateful for all of the scientists who worked over all of the years to give us vaccines that can now save us from these and Shingles, and three kinds of pneumonia AND seasonal flu and now Covid. I will have my sleeve rolled up for the boosters for all if they are needed.
Salk and Sabin and Francis Crick are heroes to me like some have sports figures.
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Back in the day, as a young child in Northern Minnesota in the 1950's, about the only vaccines at the time were for polio and smallpox. Whenever a kid in the community came down with measles, mumps or chicken pox, moms of kids who hadn't had the specific disease yet brought that kid over to be exposed, the logic being that it was better to have a sick kid when you were prepared for it than not. It was never a big deal; a few days off from school but that was about it--and for some reason if you had measles you had to stay in a darkened room, which was not fun. But nobody I knew ever died from those diseases or even got very sick.