In the year 1916 there were 27,363 reported cases of polio, over 7,000 people in the United States lost their lives due to this epidemic. In 1918 an outbreak of Spanish influenza killed nearly 500,000 people nationwide. Between 1949 and 1952 polio claimed the lives of another 7,000 Americans. Between 1981 and 2005 the AIDS epidemic hit 988,376 people in our country.
Now, in 2011, we have a vaccine for polio and the occurrence of HIV and AIDS has drastically reduced. Modern medical technology has enabled our physiological beings to overcome most detrimental medical conditions. Our generation has been very blessed in that sense.
So you may wonder, what is my point in this history lesson on national epidemics? I have found an entirely new epidemic reoccurring in our senior generations and poisoning our youth. This epidemic will not immediately make you physically ill. At first onset your daily life may not change drastically but with time and energy spent hosting this pernicious condition, it has killed millions.
I would like to speak to you about my profound fear of the epidemic of HATRED that is contaminating the minds of Americans today. I hope you will listen and I hope you will change.
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