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Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.bsky.social |
"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda
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A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird
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Not just the rows and rows of baby headstones, but the necessity of state care for people who technically survived those diseases but were damaged. Sequelae like encephalitis are often forgotten now.
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His Royal Huwness
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A simple argument that our "free" press could easily and quickly make - BUT DO NOT - clearly signalling their servitude to the Fascist overlords (too dramatic? - corporate puppets?)
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Cathy W
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when the polio vaccine was in clinical trials they were turning away volunteers because there were too many. Parents who had seen the nightmare of polio wanted *any* thread of hope that their children might not have to go through it!
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GeekGirlsRule
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And now a local cemetery has brought back the "Children's Garden" concept, because of antivaxxers. Heartbreaking and maddening.
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William Shakespeare
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The ground is bloody, search about the churchyard.
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Keith Ng
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I saw one family gravestone with three names in a year. All children. Then (same family) another one the year after, and another one the year after that. Brutal.
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Trinlay K
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I've also seen a grave stone out east from the late 1700s & early 1800s. Family had 15+ kids between a few days & 21 years buried in the same plot over about an 8 year span.
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Trinlay K
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When I was growing up (mostly the 70s), there were adults in the community (some of dad's coworkers, a couple teachers) who were polio survivors. I was in college before I met someone around my age who'd had polio.
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Matthew Brotman
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpds...
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Spottycat ΘΔ𓃮
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Most every old cemetery around here has loads of little markers from the 40s-50s with sheep on them for tiny children, many marked with "Baby [Family Name]." Some older ones have many children on one marker like this one from the Fowler Ground in the Trapps Hamlet. Photo from Abandoned NYC.
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Mo
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this is why (in addition to not having reliable birth control) that it was normal for families to have 10+ kids. So many kids didn't make it to adulthood
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Jonathan Aul
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Can confirm. Visited Fourth Plain Cemetery in Sifton neighborhood of Vancouver, WA a few years back. There are graves dating from 1st half 19th C. to mid-20th C., including Civil War veterans and -- up until early 1950s, but not after -- many graves for infants and children younger than 5 years old.
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Lomelindi12
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We currently have a bad measles outbreak in a part of the UK People really don’t get it
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Sean Eric Fagan
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We're in Ireland right now, and it's ... bigger.
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Rhonda
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Yes. My grandmother was our county historian and genealogist. I spent many summer days in old cemeteries doing headstone rubbings with her. The number of children’s graves dropped DRAMATICALLY with the advent of vaccines. Anti vaxers are the definition of ignorant.
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Goo Brains
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I work at a 200 y/o cem and it's very sad seeing all the preventable things that children had died from.
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@kevinmagoo72.bsky.social
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See also seat-belt laws.
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FeistyEnglishTeacher
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My family can claim at least 4 of those.
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Michael Clark
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Until the 1940s kids could count on getting at least one day per year off from classes to go to a wake for a classmate.
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Trobsmonkey
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Yes but have you considered that stupid people get angry at being told what to do? - NYT Opinion
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Vangluss
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I can’t think of an invention that has suffered more from success than vaccines
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Sailoil
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donalclancy.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/o...
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Without vaccines, many transmissible diseases were once an early death sentence. People are so quick to forget how fortunate we are to have access to them.
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Gabriel S. Jacobs
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antivaxxers say "but that wasn't from vaccines but from better sanitary practices!" and then refuse to wear a mask while hacking and coughing in a hospital waiting room
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Pyrholidon Enthusiast ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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@processanalyzer.bsky.social
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“Vaccines are woke.” Strongman General Ladapo of the Florida GOP.
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Jacobian Menance
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I’ll take “First Date Ideas for 500”
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Paul Jacob Smith
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You know, I don't really think that the anti-vaxx people disbelieve in vaccines' efficacy. The scary thing about them is that they'd rather their baby having a chance of being dead than a chance of being autistic.
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