tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7390168029330307425.post2411864609501463593..comments2021-08-18T00:14:30.706-07:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7390168029330307425.post-20502273470157457442020-12-20T23:10:01.069-08:002020-12-20T23:10:01.069-08:00Thanks for chiming in with a real slice of life. <br /><br />Some would think me an Anti-Vaxxer without knowing me. I got the shingles vaccine, and then the booster....after the booster I was completely useless the next day, worse than a horrible hangover. I thought that might be the last vaccine I take.<br /><br />The last time, and only time, I got the flu vaccine....I got the flu, and I rarely get the flu, and never if not on an airplane.<br /><br />Yep.....choose wiselyStockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04516118374677265589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7390168029330307425.post-51335394779857762552020-12-20T21:35:40.333-08:002020-12-20T21:35:40.333-08:00It was 1952 and polio was ravaging the country, I remember it and parents feared, as did mine that their children would be crippled. There was a natural fear by all of taking a any shot. Getting a shot was thought to be the work of the devil because there was little trust of the medical world and implanting something by a needle was horrific and not natural. <br /><br />Living on an indian reservation at that time was especially hard. Sanitation as we know it was an outhouse, no indoor plumbing. This was devastating to the tribal young. Bathing was infrequent and a watering trough was a bath tub. It was trying times after the great war and the first nation people were trying to hang on to their old ways.<br /><br />My best native friend came down with polio, as did his brother and sisters. All lived but after a year he had muscle problems.<br /><br />MY mom wouldn&#39;t let us go to the swimming hole for several years because those indian children who used it were dirty and carried the disease. After several years passed the Salk vaccine came out and I remember leaving class to wait outside the school and one by one we went to get a shot, then weeks later another shot. But all indians on the res. were given the vaccine, young and old. <br /><br />In the end the disease was snuffed out but not gone. It was a leap of faith and dire circumstances that predicated all to get shots. Was it the right thing too do? I&#39;ll let history judge that.<br /><br />Taking any drug or vaccine is a personal choice. It&#39;s a game of odds. Under lying and preexisting conditions come into the odds. I got TB on the res. as did others and was left with scarring in my lungs, that even time could not erase or nor would I grow out of. <br /><br />I didn&#39;t believe in getting a flue shot or any shot for that fact for 40 years but then you get old and things change. Your right to not get the shot is up to you and no one else, choose wisely. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com