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gopiscrap

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11. Vaccines have always been something have strongly advocated for
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 03:38 PM
Yesterday

bear with me for two stories.

1) My mom was born in Germany in 1933...in the mid forty's she came down with polio. She was one of the lucky ones. She survived, but the toes on her right foot were fused together..she felt weak for much of her life.

2) I was born in a German hospital in 1957. Sanitary conditions etc, still weren't what they should have been. I was infected with the 21 day measles as an infant. It gacve me encephalitis. I spent 6 months in the hospital. I was one of the very lucky ones. I did not die as most infants back then did when getting encephalitis. What it did was for all of my childhood, I was physically behind my peers. I was hyper active and uncoordinated. I could tie my shoes until I was 11 and couldn't ride a bike til I was 9. Finally about my late 20's I felt I had caught up with my peers. But it took almost 30 years. And still I have poor eyesight as a re4sult of that disease.

So YES!!!!!!! get vaccinated!!!

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Killing your own children is quite a lesson. Irish_Dem Yesterday #3
Good point....... MyOwnPeace Yesterday #6
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Or infants who are too young to be vaccinated, and pregnant women. Irish_Dem Yesterday #21
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Measles and essential oils. Rec by RFK Jr. Natural ingredients. Norrrm Yesterday #5
Vaccines have always been something have strongly advocated for gopiscrap Yesterday #11
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polio Norrrm Yesterday #23
I am easily convinced. Science. twodogsbarking Yesterday #15
Millions of doctors and scientists across the world studied and achieved to become medical experts and treat patients ChicagoTeamster Yesterday #16
When I was a child, before vaccines for measles and chicken pox, wnylib Yesterday #17
Me and my generation also. jeffreyi Yesterday #24
Yikes! calimary Yesterday #18
"How dangerous theses diseases once were" cate94 Yesterday #20
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