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?Be nice? you say? to the best of my knowledge, I have never NOT been "nice" to posters here, so your aggressive attitude to my post is unnecessary. As to your "show me your blind and polio ridden children..." comment, even with its somewhat callous tone, I have to say that I cannot "show you my" children with bodies damaged by measles or polio because after VACCINES were developed for those diseases, the number of children (or adults) with bodies and lives damaged by DISEASE, not vaccinations, became almost nil. I don't have those statistics at hand, but until recently - as the "anti-vaxers" gained microphones and stages - polio was almost totally eradicated. Does it please you that as parents anywhere listen to the kind of nonsense spouted about vaccines gets promulgated around the world that once again polio - and TB - are on the rise?

For any of us who have had family members, forebears, family friends or relatives who were disabled or killed by disease, BEFORE VACCINES, we know the difference. Forebears in my own and other family members' forebears died from: the 1918 pandemic/"Spanish" flu, a fairly large number died from diptheria, and one marvelous man severely disabled from polio, family friends who spent LONG periods of time in TB sanitariums.... and so on and so on. The DISEASES are REAL. The nonsense from the likes of RFK, junior trying to be famous and politically important like his father RFK and uncle JFK and mother, using despicable routes, is NOT based in reality.

Please consider what scientists know about vaccines and have known for decades and, in the case of smallpox, for generations. If you have never seen or known anyone from before the 1950s, 1960s, who had polio or TB, then your lack of respect for the irrefutable value of vaccinations might be understandable. As it is, anti-vaxers are simply ignorant and dangerous and backward. There were mistakes made in early research for the polio vaccine - although I am no expert in any of this - and it was terrible, but the polio vaccine research responded with correction - and it changed America in dramatic ways.

See, the thing about vaccinations and PUBLIC health is that it isn't just about YOUR children or mine; that's where the "public" comes in, because the diseases vaccinated against are transmittable. It's like the cook in your favorite restaurant who doesn't wash his hands after using the toilet isn't just affecting his own health; he is affecting everyone's health, but it's his choice to leave the toilet with soiled hands; that's his "freedom" to reject demands that he wash his hands. Where is YOUR "freedom" to have the trust that he cares about PUBLIC health as much as those trusting souls sitting down to eat at his restaurant do?! Those who refused to get the Covid shot(s) or refused to wear a mask were not just making decisions about THEIR OWN health, but they were deciding for everyone else - and people became very ill, many died, many STILL are suffering, because of the infantile demand of the "freedom lovers" to be exempt from any caring about the PUBLIC good!

And I am skeptical about your claims, by the way, regarding your family members and vaccines, but that is your business, not mine.

As your comment, "You have had your turn. It is someone else's turn to fairly represent Americans," I have no idea who you imagine you are talking to, but the fact is, that in America (or so we continue to hope), it is ELECTIONS that decide who "fairly represents" Americans. Unfortunately, there is a vocal, however ignorant, faction in this country who are actively working to drag us back into the Dark Ages, a feudal system, disease, chaos and dysfunction, rulers and peons, amid their combative disavowal of sense, science, progress and history.

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