Covid-19 - lasst ihr euch impfen?
15.11.2020 um 20:14RogerHouston schrieb:Lieferst du dazu bitte die Quelle nach?Der Artikel hier schneidet es an:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2020/04/polio-christians-vaccination/
But not everyone was willing to vaccinate themselves or even their children. In the late 1970s, Christian objections to vaccination led to two of the last significant polio outbreaks in the developed world.
It started in 1978, in the Bible Belt of the Netherlands. According to polio historian Gareth Williams, only 60% of the quarter-million members of that country’s Orthodox Protestant churches had been vaccinated for polio, smallpox, and other infectious diseases (compared to 97% of the overall population). Viewing vaccination as interference with divine providence, tens of thousands of conservative Dutch Christian families depended on herd immunity. Over the course of seven months in 1978, 110 of their children were paralyzed by polio.
Worse yet, cross-Atlantic visits brought the same disease to unvaccinated Dutch Reformed enclaves in Canada. From there it spread to a different American Christian population that had always been somewhat suspicious of government-sponsored vaccination initiatives: the Amish, fourteen of whom suffered paralysis from polio in 1979.