Old Anti-vaccine stuff: All we living in circles or spirals?

Resistance to vaccines is old history. We fear what we don't understand and resist change. Even the military resisted the introduction of the tank in favor of the horse. Major General Sir Louis Jackson said in 1919:

The tank was a freak. The circumstances which called it into existence were exceptional and not likely to recur.

Check the battlefields two decades later.  

The beginnings of electricity also commanded fear. It can be seen in this anti-electricity cartoon from the 1900s. And the birth of the automobile followed through.

But in the ’90s, even though I had a successful bicycle business, and was building my first car in the privacy of the cellar in my home, I began to be pointed out as "the fool who is fiddling with a buggy that will run without being hitched to a horse."

          (Source: Alexander Winton, Article from 1930.)

Looks like now everybody is a fool. Let's not ask about living without electricity. 

Then, why to be surprised with anti-vaccine ideas? 

The anti-vaccine movements were here before, but we've forgotten. 

There was the "vaccine monster" of Victorian England - learn more in this article or on this page. 

We resisted the smallpox vaccine, then the diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis immunizations, and later the vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella, and now the one in vogue: the COVID vaccine. 

What about the future? Expect more of the same. Humanity runs in circles. Or at least in spirals as I like to say, because spirals give some hope - circles are more of the same, you end at the same place.

...millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.

(Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.)