Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Just this past weekend my mom said she was struggling to decide whether or not to get the shingles vaccine. She was afraid she would get chickenpox from it. Her doctor told her that's impossible and I told her the doctor was right. In the end she said she is getting it first thing this week.

That's because many older people remember being sick with diseases that have since become preventable thanks to vaccines. I remember the long lines at a local high school for the polio vaccine. Parents couldn't vaccinate their kids fast enough. I missed a week of Little League baseball because my parents decided that at age 12, I was too old for the measles vaccine. I'll be getting vaccinated in a back alley if I have to, there's no way I'm going back to the 1950s.

Of course they do. They remember fucking POLIO. They know this is not bullshit. This isn’t Gen X Karen on her guru Facebook group telling her it will give her kid artism.

"I'll take 'Duh' for $200, Alex."

The numbers must be skewed though, many of the anti-vaxxers don't get to be old because they make stupid choices.