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Those conversations make me wonder about the former power of our herd. Has it been too long since we lived through a hard look at our shared mortality? Has it been so long that it makes us doubt vaccines’ success with chipping away at illnesses that maim or steal our children? Maybe we’re not listening hard enough to our elders.
Norine Dresser, folklorist and former writer of the Los Angeles Times column “Multicultural Manners,” decided in her 80s to move to my desert town. I’ve been lucky to get to know her.
She wrote recently about her experiences with the summertime fear of polio and how she decided to vaccinate her then-4-year-old son when she could. Ten days after she did, his nursery school went on a field trip.
On vaccines: Thus, they were spared
Cassie McClure
The physical differences between my son and daughter grew as rapidly as they did. My son has always been much denser. His torso is sturdy as a brick, with a heft that my daughter has never had, even with three years on him.
So, when he lost about 4 pounds during his three-week bout of strep throat, the lightness of his body afterward scared me as much as his wheezing did when he was sick. But even at the emergency room, I didn t think the outcome would be anything terribly dire. We could fix him; we have the technology. Right?