Posted on 04/10/2020 6:23:42 PM PDT by Hojczyk
A hundred years ago, there were no 4th of July celebrations in New York City.
Parades were cancelled and children were banned from movie theaters. Half a million pamphlets warning people not to go outside were distributed.
The city was in the grip of a deadly, mysterious illness that crippled child after child. The disease was poliomyelitis, or polio, and it was sending spasms of fear throughout the country.
That summer, 27,000 people were infected and 6,000 people died in New York alone.
It would be many years before scientists understood the disease and for the next few decades, nearly every summer was attended by a polio outbreak.
In 1952, a vaccine was discovered, but that same year nearly 60,000 children were infected in the US. Three years later, the country began vaccinating in earnest and by 1972 the disease was eradicated from the United States.
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Then the Lord graced us with Jonas Salk...
You mean they didn’t just shut down the country?
I remember those times. Standing in line with my parents at an elementary school to be vaccinated. The lines stretched around the block.
My brother's friend had polio and I can still see her legs with the braces in my head.
A couple years back, one of my clients remarked that he had polio....and missed the vaccine by a month.
Just remember, there was a Polio vaccine that didn't work and IIRC, it effected about 400 little ones.
Salk saved the day.
FDR got it in 1921.
“You mean they didn’t just shut down the country?”
No. But stuff was done that people on FR would be melting-down over and acting like it “never” happened in American history because people back then were more “freedom-loving”.
Mitch McConnell had polio. It affects him to this day
My dad told me back in the 30s when someone got sick a red flag was placed in front of the house and everyone in it was quarantined until cleared by a doctor. Only households with a sick person were quarantined. It worked then.
and today Satan curses us with the Chicoms
And thanks to the anti-vaxxers we had measels blow up in New York in 2018-2019.
Unfortunately we’ve probably killed the next Salk via abortion along with millions of books,songs etc.
I do, too. I also went to school with kids in leg braces, and some that actually died. These flu bros today are fortunate they didn't have to see that. On the other hand, if they had, they wouldn't be so careless when it comes to this virus that has no vaccine.
And here we all are. Humans have survived many plagues through the ages. This time it is overhyped for a communist agenda.
I received my shot in school also. Before the vaccine, I can remember all of us kids being terrified of contracting it. The photos of the iron lung were scary.
Would you please explain that? What does salt have to do with polio?
Regards,
Including one of my older brothers, who is now suffering from post-polio syndrome.
(And was it really only 400?!)
Regards,
In the late 50s I mentioned to my mother that my legs hurt. I was immediately rushed to bed and the doctor was called. As my parents hovered nervously at my bedside, the doctor checked me out (they made house calls back then) and declared that it wasn’t polio. The relief in that room was palpable.
Salt was 10 cents a box. And all the proceeds went to the March of dimes. The salt was free to us.
I remember getting the sugar cube.
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