The 50s were VERY different: Scientists were godlings, small pox and polio were real, personal. ln 1954, before the vaccine, my parents kept the kids home ALL FREAKING SUMMER: No swimming, no movies, only close (church) friends could come over … because we went to church and so they were in what we now call our “pod”. My mother was all over getting us vaccinated to get us OUT OF THE HOUSE.
Seventy years later, a huge number of people actually think that vaccines are bad/dangerous, and have no personal memory of the things that they are (probably) vaccinated against. I think it’s basically a social IQ test. And I think we’re failing.
The 50s were VERY different: Scientists were godlings, small pox and polio were real, personal. ln 1954, before the vaccine, my parents kept the kids home ALL FREAKING SUMMER: No swimming, no movies, only close (church) friends could come over … because we went to church and so they were in what we now call our “pod”. My mother was all over getting us vaccinated to get us OUT OF THE HOUSE.
Seventy years later, a huge number of people actually think that vaccines are bad/dangerous, and have no personal memory of the things that they are (probably) vaccinated against. I think it’s basically a social IQ test. And I think we’re failing.