The scar is on my left arm between the shoulder and the elbow. Our grandson Gavin doesn’t have one. By the time he came along smallpox had been eradicated. Just think of that–a disease that killed hundreds of millions over centuries has been eliminated.
Would that happen today? Probably not. Anti-vaccination idiots would claim that the vaccine was a secret government plot, or that it caused dementia, or it was a scheme by Big Pharma to get rich.
Some people probably held such views, but they had no means to organize or contact each other. At one time the idea that a child porn ring was operating in the basement of a Washington pizza restaurant might have gotten you committed; today it gets you millions of followers on Twitter.
I caught the mumps, the measles, and chicken pox. When I was a kid there were no vaccines for those illnesses. I came very close to dying from the measles and later when I had the Asian flu. That people would be willing to have their kids go through that or expose other people’s kids to those diseases is criminal. I am using the word “criminal” deliberately.
Speaking of health, today is the first day since last Friday that my temperature is approaching normal, thanks to some very powerful antibiotics. I want to thank all my fans who emailed me or called inquiring about my health. I appreciate you both.
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