America's Words

      “Hope lies in dreams"

Jonas  Salk  1914 - 1995

      

The smallpox vaccine was discovered by Edward Jenner, an English physician, in 1796. He observed that milkmaids who had previously contracted cowpox, a mild disease, were immune to smallpox. Jenner inoculated a young boy, James Phipps, with cowpox pus, and Phipps later proved to be immune to smallpox. This discovery led to the development of the smallpox vaccine, which eventually led to the eradication of smallpox in 1980.

He is Three

His future ?

He is Three, this wondrous boy, my Great Grand Son. He is so full of life with smiles, hugs, and joy of life. What will his future be with the insane health policies being instituted by the Oval Occupant and His scyophant Robert Kennedy Jr. ?

This little boy who has such great expectations engendered by his family of which I am a proud far away Great Grand Mother. When I was his age, WWII had not yet started for the United States although the seeds were germinating. What is being planted in our Country now are seeds of our destruction. Just about every governmental agency is being hallowed out by incompetent people who are destroying their own departments. Why is the Congress not stopping this making America weak?

Yesterday Robert Kennedy Jr. answered questions about vaccines and why they have changed for the most vulnerable people the ability to access the life saving care that has been proven by science to save lives. Will my little GGS be able to have the normal vaccines when he goes to school ? Will his classmates? He lives far away from California which will have our own criteria for vaccinations as the western states have decided to form an autonomous group and not let the Federal Government tell us what to do.

Kennedy is a heron addict. He maybe clean now, but he undoubtedly has some brain damage for he has lost the ability to give intelligible answeres about the vaccines which for decades proven effective and saves lives. He doesn't seem to care about the future impacts his decisions will have on our present lives much less for the future for our children.

As I watched him, this bully of a man whose legacy will be one of stupid and untruthful answers about his polices which will kill people I was saddend. The current occupant in the Oval Office is responsible for over a million deaths during COVID. Will Kennedy have a similar legacy? Little children are dying from measles today since it was eliminated in 2000. Three Children have died. Hundreds have been hospitalized. 

What transpired today when he repeatedly lied because he was not under oath was a travesty. I wondered even if he had been under oath, would he have answered differently, I think not.

Salk Institute for Biological Studies 

Meanwhile, more of our Nation's health agencies are being dismantled and scientists are being fired to be replaced with folks who will follow the stupid and unscientific new polices which will not make our Country safe from the coming health crises of the future.

I do have Hope. The little Boy I love so very well, will have his time in the sun. There are new technologies being born, and I have hope that these new ideas and industries will be bring truth and science to our great Nation.    

"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."