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mountain grammy

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4. that's probably because it's been around for so long nobody gets sick anymore

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Tue Sep 16, 2025, 02:25 PM

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my sons, both in their 50's got DPT vaccines as babies.. before they were a year old.

Diphtheria, Pertussis (whooping cough) and typhoid not on our radar until now.

At 77 I'm beginning to feel like I've lived too long.

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So Cute!! "Dr." Cassidy, Facing 2 Dead, 350+ Confirmed Pertussis Cases In LA, Urges Kennedy To Publicly Support Vaccine [View all] hatrack Tuesday OP

You must accept what knowledge doctors have to help you bucolic_frolic Tuesday #1

Oh, yeah - first vaccines go back to the late 1940s. hatrack Tuesday #2

My grandmother had pertussis when she was a young applegrove Wednesday #7

that's probably because it's been around for so long nobody gets sick anymore mountain grammy Tuesday #4

Senator Cassidy, you and your constituents have to live with what you voted for. Midnight Writer Tuesday #3

Yes so cute when a doctor and senator pretends to a doctor and senator. Irish_Dem Tuesday #5

Killing people is his game, saving lives is the opposite of what he's purposefully doing. lark Tuesday #6