Can you imagine travelling back a few centuries and telling people “I could protect my family from it but I choose not to”? They’d look at you like you had 2 heads
The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.
He wrote this back in 1988 to address those that were hesitant to get vaccinated back then…I doubt he could have thought that Wakefield would come along later and help to completely fuck up everything.
Can you imagine travelling back a few centuries and telling people “I could protect my family from it but I choose not to”? They’d look at you like you had 2 heads
Only have to go back a few decades on measles:
The author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lost his daughter to measles just before it was available as a vaccine…
https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2025/03/05/roald-dahls-heartbreaking-letter-about-losing-his-daughter-in-1962/
He wrote this back in 1988 to address those that were hesitant to get vaccinated back then…I doubt he could have thought that Wakefield would come along later and help to completely fuck up everything.