Avescope Memento Mori

These primarily college-educated, vaccinated, Caucasian
parents have chosen to believe ‘studies’ and the writings of
those who are not medically trained that vaccines are bad for
their children. If anti-vax parents are on the left, they believe
that vaccinations are damaging and unnatural. If anti-vax
parents are on the right, they believe that vaccinations are a
Bilderbergian ploy to turn us into automatons. It’s all a little
cuckoo. At the same time? It’s almost understandable.
We have forgotten the horseman. We have forgotten this
horseman so well that in 2017, as a new outbreak of measles hit
the United States, younger doctors in emergency rooms didn’t
recognize it for what it was because they had only ever seen
measles in books.
Polio, or poliomyelitis. It put Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a
chair. It gave us the iron lung. It was the most feared disease of
the 1950s. Polio is one of those rare diseases where modern
sanitation made the problem worse. Instead of our early
childhood (0-4) having us constantly exposed to the virus and
the infection not being as serious, the sanitary improvements
of the early 20th century changed the timing of exposure.
This child shows a classic day-4 rash with measles. - CDC/NIP/Barbara Rice [Public domain]
Instead, children didn’t encounter the virus until their later
childhood - 5-15 when it was actually more debilitating. In fact,
the older one was exposed to polio, the higher the risk of
permanent paralysis. In the polio outbreak of 1953, nearly 50%
of the children who developed polio were left with mild to
acute paralysis. To this day, there are still people who require
the use of an iron lung to breathe. An issue as they haven’t
been manufactured in over 30 years.
Various workers affected by measles punish a god of measles and a
doctor and drugstore keeper as the latter two try to protect the god
from the workers.
National Library of Medicine - History of Medicine [No restrictions]
Thanks to Sabin and Salk who developed polio vaccines, and
perhaps even more, the March of Dimes, an organization
founded by Franklin D. Roosevelt which funded research of the
vaccines and treatment, polio has nearly been eradicated in
the world. With the exception of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the
most common forms of polio have been eliminated. Doctors
and nurses have made it a mission to remove this disease from
our lives through vaccination. Some have even died in this
crusade, murdered in Pakistan by the Taliban as recently as
April of this year.
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