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In reply to the discussion: I was a child in a time before there were vaccines for most [View all]MineralMan
(146,288 posts)People didn't resist because almost everyone knew someone whose child had gotten polio. I remember being five years old on a trip to Grandma's house in Arizona. I guess I threw up in the car, and the next thing I knew I was in the Emergency Room at some little hospital in Arizona, getting checked out. that would have been in 1950, and in the midst of a polio scare.
As I said in an earlier post, most people having children today don't have any knowledge of childhood diseases. They were all vaccinated, and didn't get them. So, they can't conceive of the worry and fear that comes with a case of the measles or whooping cough. Our mothers knew, though, all too well. So, they took us in for our shots, when they became available. But, that wasn't in time for me. I caught everything, so Mom got to play nurse with all three of her children.
Scary stuff for a young mother.