the US literally used to do mass vaccines at schools back when people remembered their siblings dying of polio

What changed then to the people that an anti vax position is so pouplar nowdays?

I was born the year after the Salk vaccine came out. My mother always told us how thankful she was for it. I got the series twice, once as a small child and again when I went into the USAF. The Air Force didn't trust anyone and gave us all all of our childhood shots again. Plus a few.

I remember when the polio vaccine was introduced, so ancient am I. Parents practically wept and kissed the ground. It was like a sword of Damocles had been lifted.

My cousin (1st once removed, technically) personally got to ask Jonas Salk (who was overseeing the process)--if the vaccine was safe--at her daughters' school--while they were in line to be vaccinated with the other students.

When did they stop?

But muh freedom (to die of preventable illnesses and spread them to immunocompromised people)!!!!

I remember getting vaccinated in elementary school They used a gun-like thing. They don't use those anymore.

I never met my grandfather (a polio survivor who died of unrelated causes before I was born) but nevertheless I can hear him swearing at the anti-vax fuckheads from beyond the grave.

It's wild to think that for most of human history, every time someone started coughing, that always came with the risk that they were just going to die. It's also crazy that moving even a single generation beyond that state has left people completely unafraid of illness

My dad still has his vaccine card with the name of his elementary school on it.