Posted on 04/04/2020 1:53:57 PM PDT by Hojczyk
FEB. 25, 2015
April 12, 2015 will be the 60th anniversary of the announcement of the Salk vaccine’s ability to prevent polio. Had it been available at your local CVS like flu shots are today, they would have had to call out the National Guard to handle the stampede.
In the early 1950s, there was no diagnosis more terrifying to parents than polio. In the 1952 epidemic, nearly 58,000 cases were reported, 3,145 people died and 21,269 were left with varying degrees of paralysis. There wasn’t a parent in America who would have requested a “personal belief waiver” to exempt their child from that shot.
Polio aside, in my childhood, there was no hope of avoiding measles, mumps, chicken pox and rubella (German measles) — miserable afflictions that I would never have wanted to inflict on my kids.
There could also be serious lasting repercussions to these illnesses: the pregnant neighbor who contracted rubella, (German measles) whose baby was born with severe birth defects; cases of deafness following mumps; encephalitis from measles. The curvature in my spine (and decades of back pain that has gone with it) is likely from polio.
When rubella came around again, my mother sent me to the home of a friend who had it to be sure I’d contracted it well before my childbearing years.
A new generation of young parents have never personally experienced diseases now preventable by vaccines. That’s both the good and the bad news. I guess for some, it’s easier to fear the autism spectrum they actually see.
But I wish every parent who doesn’t vaccinate their child could travel back to a 1950’s polio ward full of kids in iron lungs, or watch children suffer horribly — and sometimes permanently — from now-avoidable afflictions.
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In elementary school had a classmate who was crippled by polio Had large braces on legs and used crutches to move
She was one of the last people to be infected (she was born in 1954)
We all took the Sabin sugar cubes (not the Salk shots).
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I remember that. It was pink, If I recall. As a kid type, I was fine with the sugar cube. No needles involved!
I grew up in the days before the Polio vaccine. As a child, I wasn’t allowed to go to summer carnivals, for fear of the disease. The “March of Dimes” was formed. Everyone was to give a dime to aid the stricken children.
Then came the Salk vaccine. We all went to a school cafeteria where the vaccine was administered, on a sugar cube. We simply ate it. Now the FDA would neve have allowed it to be administered due to the danger of sugar. It likely would have taken another 3 years to get approval for that under today’s FDA.
I had friends who had polio and survived, many after long terms in an Iron Lung. The Iron lung was a steel coffin like chamber with the patient’s head sticking out. It would would alternately evacuate, then release a vacuum. Polio would paralyze a person’s diaphragm, making it impossible to breathe. The Iron Lung would breathe for them.
Paralysis was often permanent in some muscles, making victims frail and weak. My college dormitory had a long staircase in front of the entrance. If the wind was blowing, one such friend would ask me to hold his arm as we walked up the stairs so he wouldn’t blow over from the wind. Another girlfriend had half her face paralyzed, but to me, it gave her a very cute smile.
Just think what today’s snowflake students would do in these circumstances.
A well-written, bitter sweet story. Great for your sister to battle through life. And for you to hang out with her playing board games inside.
My old man had to take care of his mother sometimes as she was bed-ridden. He told of how on Saturdays he would clean the house. He would draw the drapes so the other boys playing outside couldn’t see him.
Little Jimmy's older brother is 88 years old and living near here. He brought his PC over last week for me to get his printer working again. He was wearing his mask and told me he had been wearing it since November. He has at least one apparent autoimmune disease and other risk factors. But He has been a world traveller and lay missionary for over fifty years with two trips down the Amazon River Basin that I know of. I should ask him if he has ever been on malaria medication that might give him a slight risk mitigation, I suspect so.
Your name is fitting.
We had them on a sugar cube. Best vaccination ever.
This ain’t polio.
Dr. Klenner’s groundbreaking work with vitamin C in 1949 - documenting curing 60 0f 60 patients with high dose vitamin C - Southern Medicine and Surgery, Klenner, July, 1949.
Klenner continued to document polio patients cured with Vitamin C
1951, 1953, 1956, (not exhaustive).
In one case Dr. Klenner noted:
“vitamin C not only cured this case of polio, it completely reversed what would undoubtedly have been a devestating, crippling result for the remainder of this girls life”
pg 59
Vitamin C and Polio Supportive Research;
Jungeblut (1935) “demonstrated that vitamin C could completely inactivate the polio virus outside the body (in vitro) rendering it non-infectious...”
Greer (1955) “also reported excellent clinical results in his treatment of five polio victims with only oral dose vitamin C- 10,000 mg/3hrs/10days.
Baur (1952) “reported positive effects using only 10,000 to 20,000mg daily”
Other clinical studies are cited in Dr. Levy’s book which also documents curing a wide array of virus and illness with high dose IV vitamin C. then there is this:
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n07.shtml
and this:
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n16.shtml
and this:
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n21.shtml
and this:
https://isom.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/IVAA-COVID19-Hospital-Use-Anderson-03.24.2020.pdf
and this:
https://mewe.com/group/5e45f92959b808281d05c94e
and this from a Dr. in New Orleans:
https://www.wwltv.com/video/news/local/vitamin-c-and-other-ways-to-possibly-boost-your-immune-system/289-a23e1
Left out the title of the book, dang.
“Curing the Incurable” Dr. Thomas Levy
Get it and get educated on the real power of high dose Vitamin C.
At 6 years old I was in the Boston City hospital in 1941 with Polio.
Prior to getting polio I had all the usual mumps chicken pox , measles etc. then got scarlet fever, rheumatic fever and polio.
I can remember being taken in the hospital to a round auditorium filled with doctors, while a doctor would take my crippled right leg and try to get my right heel to reach the floor and I would violently shudder.
When I was finally released they were going to have me get a Thomas heel to fit my right foot, and elevate it.
My Irish grandmother said no, and got me a scooter and told me to put my good left leg on the scooter and pedal with the crippled right leg.
I took years, but in my tibia I made up he difference and am was able to function normally.
When I was 19 I joined the Army and deliberately took Infantry training, and did as well or better than normal people.
My Grandmother saved me from being crippled all my life. -tom
I remember visiting kids in iron lungs.
I also remember the line that went for blocks of people waiting in line for their vaccine on a sugar cube.
There was actually an iron lung exhibit on the Seaside Heights, NJ, boardwalk back in those years called SEE THE GIRL IN THE IRON LUNG or something like that. It was probably 25 cents. You went inside this tiny building.
There was a real girl inside the iron lung but I don’t think it was turned on. That would have been really horrifying. Memorable enough without that.
Jonas Salk announced his vaccine in March 1953 and large scale vaccinations began in 1954. My oldest sister was born in late 1953.
All of us kids born afterwards thought nothing of it, and took the polio vaccine for granted, but I remember clearly my mother saying that at the time, she and her friends all considered Jonas Salk to be a Saint and national hero.
See now, some of us remember vaccines being the medical salvation that they are.
Uncounted multi-millions of lives saved with vaccinations but a few hundred anecdotal hearsay suspicions of inoculations causing Rainman syndrome. I had an autistic cousin the same age as me. I only saw him once or twice in my life because he was institutionalized at a young age. He was born before vaccines were a thing.
Now, having said that, I am horribly allergic to a compound named Thimerosal. Actually I'm allergic to metals and Thimerosal is a mercury compound that has been used as a preservative in vaccines and other things such as eye drops. I used to have to watch out for it on ingredient lists.
FRom Wikipedia:
The pharmaceutical corporation Eli Lilly and Company gave thiomersal the trade name Merthiolate. It has been used as a preservative in vaccines, immunoglobulin preparations, skin test antigens, antivenins, ophthalmic and nasal products, and tattoo inks.[4] In spite of the scientific consensus that such fears are unsubstantiated,[5][6][7][8] its use as a vaccine preservative was controversial, and it was phased out from routine childhood vaccines in the European Union, and a few other countries in response to popular fears.[9]I cannot tell you the vast number of times in my youth Merthiolate, or "Monkey Blood", as my grandfather used to call it was used on my wounds with no reaction at all. Then as a young adult in USAF I broke out with a horrible rash and watery blisters from the cheap metal chain that I had to wear around my neck. Then after that I used eye drops with Thimerosal in my eyes and they became more bloodshot than the worst stoner you ever saw. But now I don't have to worry about Thimerosal because it has been removed from all products of personal use.
The point is that the anti-vaxxers jump on a circumstance and equate it with a cause. Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a logical fallacy of the questionable cause variety (Latin: "after this, therefore because of this"). Vaccines are not the problem. Wishful thinking and confirmation bias is.
New age searching the cosmos for why a child is autistic then gasping for a tenuous cause in desperation.
“Vaccines: today’s tool of tyranny”
Really? Tyranny? Go get polio.
Half German,huh?
Which half was born in Germany?
Just imagine if, with today's wimpish triggering attitudes, if this was a polio-type epidemic right now... The Nation would completely collapse... There is only a very small minority of strong independent citizens left in the U.S. and most of these are either in the military or over 50-years of age...
Hell! Just imagine what it's going to be like when the chicoms follow up this sneak attack in a few years with a open military attack... I suspect that subsequent history might end up comparing the current U.S. with France of the 1940s'...
Pro-vaxxers are free to drink the corporate drug pushers' purple Koolaid, but you're not going to mandate anyone else to do so against their will.
The cantankerous, ornery, obstreporous, serious-minded, highly organized, engineering half.
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