shredsandpatches:skitzofreak:historium:An editorial cartoon about the anti-vaccination movement from
shredsandpatches:skitzofreak:historium:An editorial cartoon about the anti-vaccination movement from the 1930sFrom the 1930sI mean, this is absolutely an issue you would expect people back then to be informed about – the arc of history isn’t a consistent march from ignorance to knowledge. People in the 1930s had a lot more up-close-and-personal experiences with a lot of really nasty diseases: people today don’t even get vaccinated for smallpox because it has been essentially eradicated, and in the 1930s they hadn’t even developed vaccines for some major killers of children. The polio vaccine wasn’t developed until the 1950s, and the measles vaccine until the 1960s. One reason for the modern antivax movement is that most people don’t remember what it was like before these vaccines existed (and are ignorant enough about history to assume something like measles is a low-grade childhood illness). It’s much harder to take a lowered risk of death in childhood for granted when you remember what it was like before vaccines were readily available. -- source link
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