(07-25-2021, 05:09 PM)MarleyJag Wrote:

(07-25-2021, 04:57 PM)OzJohnnie Wrote: Polio vaccination was greatly resisted. Polio vaccination was almost litigated out of existence until manufacturers were given legal protections.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/

Even the smallpox vaccine was resisted despite the disease having a 30% mortality rate (unlike covid's 0.1% mortality rate)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterubel/2...e190194402

Yep, stupidity borne of ignorance is definitely not a recent phenomenon.

The ignorance is not what you are intimating.  If you read the article on polio, you'll find that there were four vaccine manufacturers and one of the manufacturer's vaccine was pulled from the market for causing more polio that it prevented, actually killing and paralyzing kids.  Parents started suing and the whole program was thrown into doubt.  The bad manufacturer was eventually shut down and the other three given legal protections and away it went.  But it wasn't a resistance born of ignorance.

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