Polio has been basically eliminated worldwide, due to Dr. Jonas Salk's vaccine.
looking back in history, I can't stand FDR's policies, and my mother who grew up in the 30's, they were deathly afraid of polio.
Are vaccines even vaccines anymore ?
I had the sugar cube polio vax. I think it was in 3 doses.
Still have a tiny scar from the smallpox vax. Everyone had them back then.
I was born in 1947, the youngest of my three siblings. We all got the polio vaccines in the 50’s. If I remember correctly, there were a series of three shots when we got them. I remember that specifically, because each time we got a shot, your arm ached terribly for several hours, and we dreaded having to go back again. It was an intra-muscular shot, and your arm would feel very heavy, and it was difficult and painful to lift it until the effect wore off.
My mom and her brother had polio. It kept him out of WWII.
Another scamdemic for which they knew the treatment yet it was withheld and the disease redefined multiple times to reap more profits. It’s a good thing to study and know history. Reminds me of SARS- a syndrome isn’t a disease, it’s presenting symptoms which could be from multiple factors and gives more ways to make a profit. Don’t buy into the rewriting of history and their lies.
The first Salk polio vaccine was a killer. Dr. Alton Ochsner of New Orleans gave his grandchild a fatal shot of it while trying to promote the deadly vaccine in a live TV broadcast. At least the child didn’t die on-air - it took 11 days for the vaccine to “work”. His granddaughter did better- she survived, but she did get polio.
So while Salk is praised as a saint today, let’s not forget the dead bodies that his reputation was built on.
I have read that smallpox was almost eradicated prior to ‘vax’
I still have a round scar on my arm.
Pretty sure I should sue for reparations as apparently I have been scarred for life
I remember as a kid adults pointing out stagnant water as “polio water” and warning us to stay out of it.
My Dr. persuaded me to get pneumonia and tetanus vaccines this week but I refused the flu and covid shots.
At age 5 in 1954, I contracted polio just before the vaccines were distributed.
I had a mild case—spent three weeks in a hospital bed, restricted to laying on my back. Once released, lots of arduous physical therapy, followed by a lifetime of muscular impairment.
I got the Salk vaccine in 1956. Five years later, I went to Germany, so I got vaccinated for typhoid fever and typhus. The side effect of the typhoid shot was a sore arm that felt like it had taken a hard punch, but the typhus shot felt like a bee sting.
I later got vaccinated against Asiatic cholera, since I was headed for the Soviet bloc, where it still could be found.
I was born in 1955. In that year over 1,000 people died of polio in the United States alone. By 1975 there were more than 250,000 people in the U.S. still at least partially paralyzed by the results of polio.
There are a lot of younger folks who are anti-vax. A lot of us older folks remember polio, and measles, and other diseases.
They left out the part where thousands of people died from the polio vaccine.
Believe it or not there is really some doubt that polio is an infectious disease, and not a toxic syndrome caused by certain insecticides. See the book “Turtles All the Way Down” for an exposition of the evidence on that subject. https://www.amazon.com/Turtles-All-Way-Down-Vaccine/dp/9655981045/ref=asc_df_9655981045&mcid=b33ff121d0123161bf647bf96d3b9254?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80195816670293&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583795283483207&psc=1
Whatever causes polio, it was successfully cured by large doses of vitamin C years before the Salk vaccine was developed. In July 1949 Dr Frederick Klenner published curing 60 out of 60 cases of polio with massive doses of vitamin C, and the medical world took no notice. https://www.seanet.com/%7Ealexs/ascorbate/194x/klenner-fr-southern_med_surg-1949-v111-n7-p209.htm
As young kids in the early 50’s, we were all terrified of catching polio. We saw the horrible pictures of patients in iron lungs.
The vaccine was a great relief. I got mine in school.
There is a fascinating book and BBC doc series called “The River” which argues, convincingly I think, that the Sabin Oral Vax that originated in the Belgian Congo was the cause of AIDs.
Basically, Hooper, the journalist who wrote this story, found that instead of green monkeys, whose SIV were not transmittable to humans, the researchers for one batch there used chimpanzees, which have a different SIV variant that can be transmitted.
What gives this credibility is that when Hooper, after years of fighting with the Brit and vax authorities, finally got to the make it or break it test, the authorities shut down everything and refused to provide the samples.
We got ours on a sugar cube in school. They lined us all up and the school nurse came along with a tray of sugar cubes that had a reddish/pink spot in the middle.
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