My grandfather was was part of the greatest generation; surviving the Great Depression, and serving in WWII. His entire generation saw the polio, small pox, and other vaccines as a great privilege against these threats. Everyone back then knew people who had died or been permanently maimed by some sort of pestilence. People were lining up to get vaccinated; city, rural, democrats, republicans! Have Americans become so weak minded that we let political ideology determine vaccination or anti-vaccine? Has the 70 years of relative health prosperity made us arrogant or complacent? How would our greatest generation advise us?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.There was about a third of the population in the states in 1918 when the influenza epidemic hit and about 5 percent of the population died. There were also protest against the vaccine as well. Has that really changed much since then?
Cities were smaller and people more spread out. Information took longer to travel. Conspiracy theories in the bigger cities spread faster. The difference now is social media is almost instant and the population is larger.
Betty
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July 22, 2022
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Wrong questions will result in wrong answers. It should be noted that both the Rethuglican Party and Fucks News have turned the vice of being ignorant into a virtue in the minds of all mentally defective Americans.
anglophone
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July 22, 2022
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Let's see. Republicans won Florida by 30,000 votes in 2020. Since then 87,000 have died (in Florida) for resisting the vaccine...so they were mostly Republicans.
I see a trend here.
Robecology
Level 9
Feb 16, 2022
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@Garban you're right...Since Feb 15h it's only 67,911. In Florida.
[nytimes.com] I hear you about calling yourself a "Floridian"...I was born and raised in NY.
With a huge dope slap right upside the head. My question is would we be going through this insanity had not the POS tRump been on the scene?
JackPedigo
Level 9
Feb 15, 2022
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I bet you are a white man! You conveniently neglected to mention that generation's rampant racism, sexism and war-centered culture of bigotry and hate. Vaccination is important but let's keep our eye on the real prize. Nope, we refuse to return to the bad old days,! The best is yet to come, it's just taking us a while to get there.
LovinLarge
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Feb 15, 2022
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@Garban You've whitewashed a period in American history as the greatest generation by overlooking the atrocities of the time because people like you bore the benefit but by all means don't let facts impede your revisionist history.
@Garban Repeating yourself won't help you. You made a serious misrepresentation and you are choosing to defend it rather than learn from your mistake. It is a merely a missed opportunity for you, as much as you would like to project it onto me. I have no interest in allies who identify historical revisionism as an "outlook".
@Garban You didn't reference a "common historical term", you said that a particular period in history was the greatest American generation. When determining what is "greatest", you can't consider only the positives and ignore the negatives which is exactly what you did yet you deny it.
Instead of a substantive discussion, you just keep repeating yourself. I'm sorry, I have no interest in continuing to interact with you because you don't appear to have anything of value to contribute.
Enhanced stupidity..... Darwin was wrong
Redneckliberal
Level 7
Feb 15, 2022
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Our parents and grandparents would think it a form of lunacy to reject vaccination to protect ourselves from disease on the grounds of exercising our right to autonomy over our body!
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