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August 23, 2013 at 4:01 pm
They are so twisted up and weird they’re almost beyond help and I feel sorry for them. The stilted language, the contortions of religious interpretation, it takes more work than accepting the science and reality. Measles vaccination, everyone got it, when I was a child. If the country were then as it is now polio would still be around because there would be some enclaves of the benighted who wouldn’t get vaccinated until it struck them and the small incidences of infection would never be eliminated.
August 23, 2013 at 4:07 pm
There’s a doctoral thesis in investigating when, why, and how American Protestantism went insane.
I still carry memories of images on the old Zenith of kids in iron lungs and of parents’ getting me to Dr. Henderson quick like a bunny when the Salk and then the Sabin vaccines were released.
Afterthought:
My gut tells me that Nixon’s Southern Strategy had something to do with it.
August 24, 2013 at 5:13 pm
Where I lived there was a community vaccination at the high school. Everyone came and lined up in the parking lot, filing into the gym to get their sugar cubes. Now that would be “Tyranny!” And there would be some right wingers screaming that the sugar cubes were actually a government move to give people polio.
August 25, 2013 at 12:23 am
Well, you lived in the Big City (grin).
There might have been something like that on the Shore, but, if there were, my folks didn’t wait for it.
And you are quite correct how the wingnuts would spin it. They are nihilists.