re: Smallpox wasn't cured until 1950ish. But USA was not shut down from 1917 to 1950

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Unfortunately, even though there was a vaccine there were large populations of people ignorant about the need to get one. But they had an excuse of a lack of ability for experts to relay information directly to people. Now we have people refusing to get a vaccine because of a failed politician and irrational fear.

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A. The diseases are hardly even comparable

B. The "failed politician" you're speaking of is largely responsible for pushing the vaccines through our disgusting public health bureaucracy, while being called a xenophobic mass murderer in the process