The COVID-19 pandemic rages on, and there are still tens of thousands who have yet to get vaccinated, even though the shots are free and readily available. There is no doubt this mindset is prolonging the pandemic.
Back in the early ’50s, a polio epidemic swept through this country with a vengeance. I was in grade school back then, and several of my friends came down with it. The result was withered limbs that never recovered full function, and normal lives forever changed. People were terrified. Pools were emptied, and beaches closed. It was a very frightening time.
But then Dr. Jonas Salk produced a vaccine that prevented this scourge. The shots, and later the Sabin oral vaccine, were administered to all comers. My own father, the school physician, gave us the injections in the nursing office. Magically, within months, the deadly polio epidemic was stopped in its tracks, and people’s lives returned to normal. It was truly a miracle.
The same thing could happen now with COVID-19, but you MUST get the shots first. Just do it; you won’t ever regret it.
John Winthrop
Cayucos
This article appears in Student Guide 2021.
Well that certainly is common sense to the max. Good Job. Are those folks listening?
The 1950’s polio epidemic and vaccine occurred at a time before medicine became politicized, and when people had a lot more trust in our institutions. Sadly, our institutions have squandered that trust.
The leftys…and Mr. Vp haris…said he wouldn’t take vaxine if trump was involved…it’s the leftwing that caused all these deaths…also mass murder of infants in the womb….what a dispicable party!!