Hmm... Guess they want mothers to have 2-4 years of sick kids? I predate the vaccines (old fart, eh?) and I remember a lot of sick time in grades 1-4. Topped with pneumonia and an ulcer. Guess it stressed me out. Did it make it lose much of my hearing? Nobody checked. Didn't try to have kids, so the 2x mumps weren't checked, either. There's reasons this stuff was developed 100's of years ago until today.
CamperBob2 · 2h ago
One of the saddest parts of this story is that Florida is full of people like you who are old enough to remember what it was like before modern public health measures. Yet almost no one speaks out.
fuzzfactor · 1h ago
>people like you who are old enough to remember what it was like before modern public health measures.
They weren't born in Florida though.
For centuries before the arrival of modern medicine, Florida was already known as the only hotbed of tropical diseases in the US.
In the 1950's and 60's as students we were vaccinated in school, assembly-line style. This was during the "cold war" with something like the apparatus used for draftees headed for Korea or the jungles of Vietnam. Not hypodermic injection in the classical sense. Well, syringes were still made of glass and had to be individually sterilized since plastic disposables were not available yet. For us the space-age vaccine "medicine" was in bulk containers and pressurized through tubes to the hand-held injector, where it was all metal and there were multiple needles only a couple millimeters long in a circular pattern. We were told that the puff of air pressure was doing the job beneath the skin and we were so lucky not to be facing a long needle. Kids who already had the shot were not whining at all, so there was no real excitement and it was pretty much of a non-event. You waited in line and when you got up to the nurse, they looked at your eyes, ears, and throat, and cleaned your arm with alcohol. The injector was sanitized between students too, I can only imagine that the alcohol was enhanced with Thiomersal or some other form of "trace" mercury. After all everybody in Florida had always kept Mercurochrome and Merthiolate in their medicine cabinets since they became available.
Like anywhere else, most schools in Florida didn't have air-conditioning yet, nobody went to school in the summer anyway.
That was normal, almost no homes had A/C yet either. But it existed widely, mainly in banks and supermarkets, plus some office buildings. Sensitive people still go back up north all the time in summer.
Everybody, native or not, always just had the "feeling" with the heat & humidity that disease germs survived on surfaces there more so than up north, and there was always an abundance of ammonia, bleach, and Lysol treatments in classrooms compared to today too.
Hey, thanks for the compliment, I take pride as almost no one ;)
FrankWilhoit · 6h ago
We are governed by only the tiniest of babies. Hey, MAGA, I've got news for you: your childhood wasn't bad because you got stuck by a few needles. It was bad because your parents hated you. And I'm starting to think they may have been right.
They weren't born in Florida though.
For centuries before the arrival of modern medicine, Florida was already known as the only hotbed of tropical diseases in the US.
In the 1950's and 60's as students we were vaccinated in school, assembly-line style. This was during the "cold war" with something like the apparatus used for draftees headed for Korea or the jungles of Vietnam. Not hypodermic injection in the classical sense. Well, syringes were still made of glass and had to be individually sterilized since plastic disposables were not available yet. For us the space-age vaccine "medicine" was in bulk containers and pressurized through tubes to the hand-held injector, where it was all metal and there were multiple needles only a couple millimeters long in a circular pattern. We were told that the puff of air pressure was doing the job beneath the skin and we were so lucky not to be facing a long needle. Kids who already had the shot were not whining at all, so there was no real excitement and it was pretty much of a non-event. You waited in line and when you got up to the nurse, they looked at your eyes, ears, and throat, and cleaned your arm with alcohol. The injector was sanitized between students too, I can only imagine that the alcohol was enhanced with Thiomersal or some other form of "trace" mercury. After all everybody in Florida had always kept Mercurochrome and Merthiolate in their medicine cabinets since they became available.
Like anywhere else, most schools in Florida didn't have air-conditioning yet, nobody went to school in the summer anyway.
That was normal, almost no homes had A/C yet either. But it existed widely, mainly in banks and supermarkets, plus some office buildings. Sensitive people still go back up north all the time in summer.
Everybody, native or not, always just had the "feeling" with the heat & humidity that disease germs survived on surfaces there more so than up north, and there was always an abundance of ammonia, bleach, and Lysol treatments in classrooms compared to today too.
Hey, thanks for the compliment, I take pride as almost no one ;)