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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

This was way before my time but I’m pretty sure the government also didn’t shut down schools and businesses, lock people in their homes and tell them where they could and couldn’t go, cancel church, cancel events, and make them wear things. Then spread incorrect information for over a year. Sorry but pushback is inevitable.

I went and looked up the polio vaccine, research started in 1935, with Salk starting field trials of his successful vaccine in 1952 and it was approved in 1955. That’s 20 years vs 9 months. Also there were issues with incorrectly manufactured lots of the Salk vaccine causing paralysis or death and leading to a drop in vaccination rates, which ultimately led to the adoption of the Sabin oral vaccine because the public no longer trusted the Salk vaccine. Sounds familiar.

Science and especially the science having to do with vaccines may have been a tiny bit less well understood and developed 85 years ago too.