Vaccines

Polio. It was all I needed to know to understand that vaccines work and the science behind them is valid. Polio killed, paralysed and maimed countless people before the advent of the polio vaccine, first developed by American doctor and medical researcher, Jonas Salk, in the mid-1950s. Former United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a high profile victim of this very dangerous and highly contagious illness. I could shock you with some of the effects this illness had on people, but, I will spare you the gratuitous, graphic disseminations.

My point…I’m a regular person and even I understand how and why vaccines work. Easy to explain in general terms, incredibly difficult to develop. Vaccines, in general, save countless lives and much misery. Their effectiveness cannot be denied. Yes, very occasionally, someone does have an adverse reaction to one, but, nothing in life is 100% certain. I like my overwhelming odds, though, that vaccines will help me. Beats the “hell” out of injecting bleach into by body.