The announcement of the polio vaccine’s safety and effectiveness was on April 12, 1955, by Thomas Francis, Jr., of the University of Michigan, the monitor of the test results. Within minutes of his announcement to the audience of scientists and reporters, news of the event was carried coast to coast by wire services and radio and television newscasts. When the vaccine was announced as successful, it led to spontaneous celebrations across the United States. It was the world’s first successful polio vaccine, declared “safe, effective, and potent.” It was possibly the most significant biomedical advance of the twentieth century.
Literally 1955, dude. Holy fuck how do people get this stupid 
My adoptive father is now antivax despite his parents meeting at a center to help people disabled by polio
Neither of them were fully paralyzed but they had life long complications and his dad died earlier than he would have otherwise, leaving his mother a single mom of 7 kids
My aunt wears two leg braces or uses crutches to get around because of polio. She is anti vax, and a Trump supporter.
some people make it very hard not to be a misanthrope