There's no scientific doubt that vaccines over time have kept us not merely alive but well. The polio vaccine is an example. I don't know how many of us remember the iron lungs that so many children who had contracted polio experienced to keep them alive. The vaccine eliminated the need for the apparatus and almost eviscerated every trace of polio. Now many of Trump's cohorts want to eliminate vaccines and, as a historian, I can't help remembering "social Darwinism" or "survival of the fittest." It seems that Trump's extreme group, by talking about eliminating support for vaccines is pushing for a society that, while not necessarily mentally the fittest, may be so physically. In short, it seems that they are attempting to create a society to serve them and not a government that serves the people.
Barbara Benjamin
Foothills
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