Were they total sheep back then too and just accepted the blatant violation of their civil rights because the all knowing government said so?

I remember waiting in line to get the polio shot. As I recall, they did it a grade at a time and there were not exceptions or doubts. (Fyi, this was in Detroit.)

This was in they days when polio wasn't all that rare and there was real fear of it (maybe because our parents remembered FDR in addition to hearing about someone's child who got it). It was also pre-Vietnam so the government was trusted implicitly about stuff like this, and you did what you were told.

More recently, my children were required to have certain immunizations in order to attend public school. I don't see it as a violation of civil rights, I see it as looking out for the safety of your fellow human beings in the same way that it is understood that one stops at red lights.

Ya. An entire world of sheep who had other sheep depending upon them to not get sick or disabled or die a slow death. I guess having just endured 2 world wars provided all those sheep some greater perspective beyond pissing and moaning about missing a vacation or a mask or other trivial crap. :rolleyes:

You missed one key point in your attempt to pound this square peg into the round hole of today. Polio quarantines were localized and VOLUNTARY. Most frequently occurring in cities where there was an identified outbreak, many chose to follow government guidance by social distancing, avoiding crowded indoor venues, and pulling kids from school. Not gestapo era tactics of the government forcing people to comply. But keep trying to rationalize what has happened and is still happening. The actions taken to prevent the spread of this virus will ultimately be worse than the effect of the virus and felt for years to come.

Instead a lot of those sheep underwent s little thing called a military draft after which they took orders to be involuntarily shot at (or shot). No big deal. I'm sure most cited their constitutional rights if not wearing helmets.

Not in the 60s after the vaccine.

My dad talked about one entire year when his parents would not let him out of the house. It was in the 1940, and he had to stay home for one full year. Not even a trip to the grocery store. My grandfather, dad's dad, got polio as an adult, and it messed up his left hand, and he was left handed. His hand had three fingers locked straight and the joints fused. Of course the press, then as now was slanted. They hid the fact that Roosevelt was a polio victim and stuck in a wheelchair.

With wards full of children in iron lungs to stay alive at all. No parent wanted to risk that for their kids.

I remember standing in line at school in I think the third grade, in San Marcos, TX to "have to" eat a sugar cube. Somehow not one kid cried or complained. Dr. Jonas Salk was looked on as a miracle worker.

I found this interesting. Remote learning started in 1937 Chicago due to polio. They shut down schools for several weeks and used radio as their remote learning tool.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1623678463.jpg

I remember getting the polio shot as a kid. We all had the same scare on out upper arms. Also remember my 5th grade teacher had polio and had a bad leg. She told us about it one day and said she lived in a small town and her parents didn't take her to get the shot.

Of course this was LONG before the innerweb where anyone can be their own expert.
And before Oprah allowed a former Playboy model to rant about vaccines and autism.

I seem to remember having a clear plastic bubble taped over my small pox vaccination. Anybody else remember something like that?

Vaguely. I think it was to isolate the shot?

The round scar was from a small pox shot. I have one as well.

In 1971 when we left Hawaii to come back to the mainland the Air Force insisted we all get another small pox vaccination. So mom took my brother and I to the hospital for that. Dad was a officer and just went to the flight surgeon. The shot did nothing at all as we had been vaccinated before, but it was a rule we had to follow to get off the island.

Small pox is right, not polio. ISC.

Look at the reaction in 2020 to a drug in use across multiple decades decades in an anti-malerial capacity.

What happened there?
Long term use, well known.
Yet total freak out.
Vaccines seem less controversial in comparision.

Just like HCQ+Zinc, the media went nutto with this vaccine.
Why? Because they "get it up" from their fantasy for a guy with a weid hairstyle.
The guy with the weird vaccine was meeting about accelerating vaccine development back in January 2020.
And the media was going nutto back then, and stayed that way.
A year of criticism, no wonder.