Life-Sustaining Vaccines (thank you, twenty one pilots!)
I’ve been pondering how grateful I am for vaccines, which have changed the quality and length of life for countless zillions of people. Please don’t make them political. If you’re reading this, then you have more than likely directly benefited from vaccines, either because you received some or many people around you received some. Vaccines save lives, especially in the developing world, and especially children under the age of 5. As we all hope and pray for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, I thought I’d do a little walk through vaccine history to celebrate the medical breakthroughs achieved thus far. I received the smallpox vaccine before it was officially declared to be completely eradicated in 1980 – woohoo! Polio cases have decreased by 99% since 1988 – amazing! Measles cases have decreased by 95% since 1980 – yay! I’m thankful for the legacy of the many who have gone before in finding ways to address some of these complex global challenges. Thank you, twenty one pilots, for your great music! May God bless you, protect you, and give you peace!
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Music: “Chlorine” (twenty one pilots)
Words by me: Life-sustaining vaccines inhibit all kinds of disease, beyond biomedical / immunological, stimulate immune response – see a threat, then exterminate, sometimes prophylactic, sometimes therapeutic. Many lives saved with vaccines! Smallpox was the fir st one, whoa, cholera, then rabies, tetanus, typhoid, bubonic plague, diphtheria, whoa, TB, scarlet fever. Immunity is wise. Vaccines – they save lives. Life-sustaining vaccines inhibit all kinds of disease, beyond biomedical / immunological, stimulate immune response – see a threat, then exterminate, sometimes prophylactic, sometimes therapeutic. Many lives saved with vaccines! Pertussis, yellow fever, whoa, typhus, flu, tick-borne encephalitis, polio, anthrax, measles, whoa, rubella, meningitis, mumps. Immunity is wise. Vaccines – they save lives. Immunity is wise. Vaccines – they save lives. Hepatitus A and B and even letter E, chicken pox, adenovirus numbers 4 and 7, one for Lyme disease, another Q fever, human papillomavirus (known as HPV), dengue fever and ebola, rotavirus, malaria, HiB, enterovirus 71 – hope there’s more to come! Life-sustaining vaccines inhibit all kinds of disease, beyond biomedical / immunological, stimulate immune response – see a threat, then exterminate, sometimes prophylactic, sometimes therapeutic. Many lives saved with vaccines! Slow the spread, slow the spread. Stop the spread, stop the spread. Wipe out this new disease, yeah. Slow the spread, slow the spread. Stop the spread, stop the spread. We need herd immunity, yeah. Life-sustaining vaccines! Slow the spread, slow the spread. Stop the spread, stop the spread. Wipe out this new disease, yeah. Slow the spread, slow the spread. Stop the spread, stop the spread. We need herd immunity, yeah.
