The next several months will be agonizing for a particular anti-science group. These wackos are against vaccines because of some harebrained studies touted on the internet or tweeted by Trump. Always a mistake!

Why will it be a problem? Well, they will have to decide whether or not to get a shot for Covid 19. Will they depend on the rest of us to get the shot to protect them? A good example is measles. Measles is making a comeback, crippling and killing kids who can’t have shots because of health conditions. When their kids get it, many say it is God’s will or simply I didn’t think it was good for my child.

With people flying around the world in a matter of a few hours, diseases from other continents can be here before the infected person shows symptoms. Covid 19 is just the latest example. At least three countries still have polio and several more have measles. So far we have missed the hemorrhagic diseases although several less dangerous ones are now part of American life.

We have vaccines for polio, measles, and other childhood diseases now which are safe and vaccines for several of the really nasty diseases which don’t need to be given until necessary. Until everyone gets a shot and puts Covid 19 into an extinct category like small pox, it will keep coming back killing tens of thousands every year. It’s very possible shots will have to be taken every year or less to get immunity.