Project One Proposal

I have decided to advocate the continuation and increase of government funding for the research and distribution of vaccinations. I chose this project because while writing a paper for comp 105 I did a lot of research similar to this topic and it became very important to me. Through my research I realized the importance of vaccinations and how the availability of them has changed history and the course of human life. Many epidemics that used to kill thousands have been nearly wiped out; some of these diseases are virtually unknown to us. Even less serious illnesses that our parents got as children are ones we have never experienced due to vaccinations. My grandmother had polio when she was 5, and if the vaccine for it had been available sooner she might not have spent every summer until she was 13 in the hospital getting surgery done on her legs, and walking might not have been such a struggle for her all her life. Diseases such as these may seem foreign to us, but they still exist elsewhere in the world, which means if vaccines are stopped or are less common the diseases CAN still spread again. They can run rapid and become epidemics again, and today's generation has no natural resistance except for the vaccinations they had as children. If funding for research stops or slows, new diseases can develop and spread wildly, with no resitance and no cure. The result could be the death or maiming of millions of people worldwide. A country's job is to take care of its people, and this includes not just health care but health prevention. This is why the increased and continued funing for vaccination research is so important.