If you think vaccines are more dangerous than the illness the viruses cause, then feel free to avoid them. But read this testimony from Judith Pantages first….
When I was a respiratory-therapy student, we had an iron lung in our lab as a vestige of our field’s history. I thought at the time: I have to get into it to feel what it was like. So I did. It was the scariest moment of my life. I couldn’t ask for help as the mighty negative pressure overtook my feeble effort to breathe. Then there was the claustrophobic effect of being enclosed up to my neck in a steel tube. It probably wasn’t the smartest thing for a student to do, but it gave me deep appreciation for my patients who were polio survivors.
Today negative pressure ventilators have given way to positive pressure ventilators and other noninvasive methods. Still, being on such a thing is no picnic. I wish all those skeptical of vaccines would spend a few moments in an iron lung. Perhaps that would be enough to give them pause.
In other words, get your shot….
Making Sense of Medical Science (MSMS) 
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