Posted on 08/19/2022 1:59:31 PM PDT by ransomnote
Why? Did you know anyone that actually was sick with Polio? I was born in the early 1950’s and I knew of nobody who got sick with it. From what I read, it disappeared because humans became immune and the virus burned itself out, like every other disease humankind encounters.
It is JMO, and my Mom disagreed, so I took it. I remember the hysteria as adults talked about it, but it was as an epidemic like TB, with which I only knew one person to have, and she was an adopted girl from Korea, within the first few years of her living in the US.
Yes I knew people who had polio including some in my own family
Polio cases did not evaporate. Once the polio vaccine rolled out the number of cases dropped significantly
I grew up in Denver. Many polio cases who were on iron lungs were treated in the hospitals there. Wards and wards of people being kept alive by machines
Polio is pernicious. The results of it depends on how much CnS involvement there was
Poo poo polio is ridiculous. Your ignorance is astonishing
Yes. My mother’s cousin who caught Polio as a child in the late 1930’s, became paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair and died in her early 40’s from complications.
From what I read, it disappeared because humans became immune and the virus burned itself out, like every other disease humankind encounters.
You need to find better reading material.
Love the last part
I’m sorry for your family’s loss
I do not have a clue of how to get across to those who didn’t live through the polio years just how bad it could get
Some years ago I ran a call on a early to mid twenties non-verbal autistic patient living at home with mom and dad.
Dad came up to us and stated that patient had been a totally age appropriate kid about 10 years old when they were taken to a doctors office for childhood vaccines. The child reacted right there in the office and was transported to the ER and had been non-verbal autistic since that moment.
What he said was not really relevant to the call or treatment and I have always felt was a warning to us of potential consequences.
Post hoc is not proof of causality
I seem to remember the sugar cube and a weird gun that used a nickel-sized washer with a small tine that only slightly pierced the skin but stung more than expected.
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