Back in the old days lol

[girlsmiley]

Back in the old days when my mum said you go for your vaccinations, you went. You didn't say nothing. You tried not to cry and you got your jab. Here's your lollipop.

Now?

Bruh.

People want to argue and debate and have a conversation and ask a million questions.

What's changed? Society?

 

[girlsmiley]

All of a sudden you don't listen or trust your mum?

What is it?

 

[girlsmiley]

Did the people who were parents in the 80s and 90s drop the ball?

I believe that the 90s was the decade that parents really dropped the ball.

In Australia and New Zealand anyways. I don't know about the rest of the world, but kids these days. They answer back more, they're more disrespectful, they have things like anxiety and shit that I've never heard of.

Kids aren't kids anymore.

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

In general people got wise. Question authority.

 

[rockcasbah]

Look at you...your daughter should buy her own fucking car and wheels and learn how to inflate the tires instead of you doing it all for her (and wasting our time with your control tactics).

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

Thalidomide, agent orange, etc.

 

[girlsmiley]

Look at you...your daughter should buy her own fucking car and wheels and learn how to inflate the tires instead of you doing it all for her (and wasting our time with your control tactics).

She will have a house or two as well.

And still I ask. What the fuck happened?

 

[girlsmiley]

In general people got wise. Question authority.

Are children wise?

 

[girlsmiley]

I'm a child. Am I wise? No.

But you ask kids and they will say yes.

 

[oneblueye]

hey...

All of a sudden you don't listen or trust your mum?

What is it?

Don't worry about it, all the stuff that the 'old ones' used to say...about life, people, times. (it only hurts for a bit) You see it coming to pass and you laugh as you remember what the old people would say and admonish you about, you just laugh and say, "Everything is as it used to be--," And go about your day. But its when it is late at night and you go over the events of the day and you remember what they said when you were little and how your parents laughed at them. Now your parents are the old people and they are saying the same things your grandparents said; and now--, now its your turn to laugh and taunt them and remind them how EVERYTHING IS AS IT WAS.
But back in that place in your mind--, where you rarely allow yourself to go, you look and you listen and you remember what they said but now you're not laughing so hard. WHY?

 

[jaF0]

I saw a story not too long ago about one of the first towns in the US to be certified as having 100% of the population having gotten the Polio vaccine. Residents now were balking at getting shots.

 

[thør]

Did the people who were parents in the 80s and 90s drop the ball?

I believe that the 90s was the decade that parents really dropped the ball.

In Australia and New Zealand anyways. I don't know about the rest of the world, but kids these days. They answer back more, they're more disrespectful, they have things like anxiety and shit that I've never heard of.

Kids aren't kids anymore.

My kids were born in the 80's. They are self sufficient and decent human beings now.

 

[jaF0]

^^ I'm not.

 

[oggbashan]

Fake news about vaccines causing all sorts of things - which have been proved false over and over again but people refer to believe conspiracy theories.

 

[RoryN]

My parents never said the following to me:

"Don't ask why."
"Because I said so."

They taught me to be a critical thinker early on.

Does that make my parents better than others? Abso-fucking-lutely.

 

[Wrong Element]

I saw a story not too long ago about one of the first towns in the US to be certified as having 100% of the population having gotten the Polio vaccine. Residents now were balking at getting shots.

To live your life without serious fear of infectious disease is a relatively new thing in human history. People of my parents' generation were terrified of polio. They saw the difference a vaccine could make.


The whole anti-vax thing has taken root with people who are conspiracy-minded generally, but I think it also has to do with the fact that so many of the things we're vaccinated for seem like hypothetical concerns these days, like tetanus. Of course, it's vaccines that made them minor problems to begin with, but that's too broad a leap for some people.

 

[TheK8te]

Everything is a conspiracy now. Our government and leaders have gone from working to make the country better to it all being about fighting the other side. Red vs Blue and let's pad our bank accounts. Given that level of leadership it's no wonder everything is up for questions anymore. COVID-19 in general has been met with a number of conspiracy theories so the vaccine will get just as many if not more. But like a lot of people point out we eat, drink, and smoke stuff daily that we do not know what is inside of it yet people are going insane about this vaccine.

 

[oggbashan]

My sister died of polio when she was twelve years old - a few years before the polio vaccine became available in the UK.

My parents (both of them) were from families with twelve children but only five of each survived to become adults...

That sort of family history makes you want to have any vaccine going, and also get your children and grandchildren vaccinated.

 

[rockcasbah]

My parents never said the following to me:

"Don't ask why."
"Because I said so."

They taught me to be a critical thinker early on.

Does that make my parents better than others? Abso-fucking-lutely.

Dead Pool Champion!

“ Did you see my son’s obit threads on the GB?”

Hahahaha!

 

[Liar]

Will I get a lollipop?

 

[colddiesel]

I am so ancient I can remember what Polio looked like. A kid a year or so older than me, lively, tough, into everything, then suddenly he was away for almost a year. He returned thin weak and in leg irons - his body broken, but just as important, his spirit too. He survived, but was physically and mentally crippled for life. His sister did not survive, she never got to go to school at all.

Then came the vaccines, Every single kid in the school had the shot, no exceptions, our mums thought it was a miracle.

Salk, Sabin and Koprowski were almost universally regarded as saints, and neither Salk nor Sabin patented their products - they thought it would be morally wrong. Times have changed.

 

[silver gurl]

My kids were born in the 80's. They are self sufficient and decent human beings now.

Ditto.
And a home owner at the age of 23.

My parents never said the following to me:

"Don't ask why."
"Because I said so."

I am pretty sure mine did.

 

[girlsmiley]

Everything is a conspiracy now. Our government and leaders have gone from working to make the country better to it all being about fighting the other side. Red vs Blue and let's pad our bank accounts. Given that level of leadership it's no wonder everything is up for questions anymore. COVID-19 in general has been met with a number of conspiracy theories so the vaccine will get just as many if not more. But like a lot of people point out we eat, drink, and smoke stuff daily that we do not know what is inside of it yet people are going insane about this vaccine.

There are some really stupid adults out there. I remember when we had the postal vote for same sex marriage down here. The Christian groups gathered, and the lies... And these fucking morons believed it.

"Oh no the gays are going to teach our kids to be gay at school"

It's this fucking group that are seriously DADS. Dumb as dog shit. Men in their 50s and 60s, who have sons and grandsons just as thick. Annoying the rest of us. Too dumb to figure it out.

 

[girlsmiley]

Another thing they don't realise.

The cost.

The cost.

That postal vote cost tax payers around 100 million dollars.

I just. I just fucken can't with people anymore.

 

[thør]

I am so ancient I can remember what Polio looked like. A kid a year or so older than me, lively, tough, into everything, then suddenly he was away for almost a year. He returned thin weak and in leg irons - his body broken, but just as important, his spirit too. He survived, but was physically and mentally crippled for life. His sister did not survive, she never got to go to school at all.

Then came the vaccines, Every single kid in the school had the shot, no exceptions, our mums thought it was a miracle.

Salk, Sabin and Koprowski were almost universally regarded as saints, and neither Salk nor Sabin patented their products - they thought it would be morally wrong. Times have changed.

Decent human beings.