Proud Texan vs Anti-Vaxers

“I don’t care that the polio vaccine I was given caused me to have a limp for the rest of my life. Sometimes you gotta take one for the good of an entire team. And polio had to be irradicated. I’d take that vaccine again, even knowing it would leave me slightly deformed.”

Those were the words of my nearly 100-year-old mom. I watched Mom suffer from chronic leg and back pain my entire life because of that vaccine, but she was steadfast it was a sacrifice worth making to help stop polio’s spread across America.

If she’d lived to see Covid-19 bring America low, Mom would have been the first in line for a Covid vaccine. She was a staunch and proud Texan for sure. But she believed in standing tall as an American and being part of a fight waged to bring down any disease that was killing folks in a country she loved.

I’m pretty sure the Anti-Vaxer movement would leave Mom thinking…

Ya Gotta Wonder!