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[DragonBear]

Our Pathetic Herd Immunity Failure

Could today’s version of America have been able to win World War II? It hardly seems possible.

A more pointed question is whether today's America could have gotten behind mass vaccination programs for: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, and smallpox? Especially in children. Or would a Freddy have come screaming out of the woodwork "Monsters!"? If the smallpox vaccination had been invented 20 yrs ago, would there be any hope if its eradication from the US today? As in: "OMG look at the scar it left behind on the arm of my child! Evil! "Monsters!".

The WW2 Greatest Generation had a common attribute that seems lacking today. They had common sense. If the US government backed a public campaign to eradicate polio, they got behind it. There were no thoughts it was a deep state conspiracy involving alien Lizard people out to control our minds. If a bad batch of polio vaccine slipped through, they didn't storm the Congressional Capital Bldg. Instead they accepted it. And later re-vaccinated with the oral vaccine in trust. They didn't accuse Salk&Sabin of creating a hoax to make money off of. Yep, they trusted the US gov.

We're down to trusting the Covid virus is running out of mutational tricks. If not then with the Freddies running around it's yearly booster shot time. While the anti-VAXers cull their own herd by reinfecting each other, over and over. Hopefully the economic and social costs won't be large for the rest of us.