Sheesh, this country was founded by folks who were upset about housing British soldiers and paying taxes without representation...what's a little medical injection forced into your body by the government?
Sarcasm/off.
You’re kidding, right? You don’t think those colonists wouldn’t have given their eyeteeth to have had just a few of the vaccines available today instead of losing children soon after birth from those diseases today’s vaccines prevent?
We’ve become very spoiled in our expectation that under ordinary circumstances all our children will grow into adulthood. Our parents/grandparents’ generation and beyond had no such expectation. How’d you like to have to bury your two year old who died of flu, as so many did a lot more recently than the AmRev?
Within the last century alone, it’d be interesting to note how many died, say in 1918, from the flu. Or how many lives were destroyed by polio. I remember standing in line at the local public school soon after Dr. Salk came out with his vaccine. No one, but no one, at least that I knew of, refused the Salk vaccine, even if there were some yet to be determined nasty side effects.