sea breeze - "That was right during the polio epidemic. I wonder how many suffered death and crippling due to a bunch of uneducated nut jobs?"
Figures.
Just further proves to me that the leadership have always been True Believers.
Only people who were 100% certain they were right would play roulette with peoples lives like that, 'cause they're...
a) ...convinced every knee-jerk reaction, conspiracy theory, or flash of "insight" is God whispering in their ear, and surround themselves solely with people who are never allowed to disagree with them...
b) ...simply can't imagine a bad outcome as a result of any decisions based on that conviction, and...
c) ...are certain Armageddon's gonna drop any day now, so any errors made won't matter, anyway.
Terrific recipe for making needless martyr-wannabes, innit?