meatball77 wrote:
When I posted on mommy boards people would argue that polio really wasn't that bad. Freaking idiots
I was watching this show Pregnant in Heels (I've never seen it before so I don't know if it is really popular or not).  She was talking to this one woman who felt that her breastmilk would save her baby from things like polio, not that she thought her baby would get polio because that's an "olden disease" that you don't see much anymore.  It was like WTF?  The PiH lady person took this mother to a doctor and the doctor said a couple things that finally got into this woman's head and got her thinking that maybe vaccines are a good thing.  She said that just we, in the United States, might not have huge epidemics or huge diseases, things can still get into the US especially with travel.  She said places like, I believe she said India, were having an issue with polio at the moment and people from that country could easily fly here with it and then we'd have it here.