About that comment by Chip Roy, R-OfCourse, his father and Polio...

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2. I was in grade school when the polio vaccine became available.

The vaccine was given to all of us at school. If there were any objections, or children who didn't get it, I don't remember.
What I do remember was all of us being lined up and marched through the vaccination stations for each of the shots the regimen required.
Back then polio was a very fearsome disease. People were very happy and relieved to have their children protected. As a result of this massive national vaccine program, polio was all but eradicated.
According to the CDC, the United States has been polio free since 1979.

And now these Republican jackasses would rather see over a hundred thousand people a day, including a growing number of children, endure pain and suffering and even death from the Covid virus than do the responsible, adult thing to help rid this nation of the devastation the virus causes.

The actions of people in positions of power to sway large portions of the population to, not only not get the vaccine or even take minimal precautions to help prevent spread of the virus, but aggressively attack those who are trying to help us get through this pandemic is tantamount to first degree, premeditated murder.