As a child in that era I was horrified to see tv shows and news shows with iron lung patients helpless like that.
And that cruel surprise that after surviving back then, they could get “post polio syndrome” as a punishment for living longer.
I am truly grateful for the polio vaccine in time to protect me. Dr. Jonas Salk was refused entrance to most NY area medical schools because they refused Jews or had a tiny quota limit on Jews. He finally found one, studied, later researched and was a principal developer of the vaccine.
Just watched a Video that expanded Jesus’s
Statement to His Disciples;”You Shall
do Greater Miracles than These!”
It Went on to Suggest the Medical Arts could be descendant from That Promise.
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Born in 1955 so I timed Polio well or should I say the Creator for a Time As This.
As a child in that era I was horrified to see tv shows and news shows with iron lung patients helpless like that.
Yes, me also!
Several classmates had leg braces and worse were the pictures of people in iron lungs. What a horrible existence.
I vividly recall lining up for the sugar cubes...what I don’t recall is how many it took...I know it was more than one...maybe 3 times?
Thank God for the vaccine! Safe AND effective...unlike some I could mention...
I remember those shows, too. Like you, I was horrified by the site. I was too young to realize that for most people the iron lung was not to be a permanent, 24-hour a day situation.