People just don’t realize how close we are to when the vaccines that changed the world came into being. Polio was still paralyzing people in the 50’s and 60’s.
We eliminated so many deseases, and the democRATS have allowed them to reoccure through unlimited illegal immigration.
Just pray your grandchild or great grandchild does not have to suffer through an illness that the US government got rid of, and then brought back.
There was a hospital across the street from our church that my mother always referred to as “the crippled children’s hospital.” They were crippled from polio but she never said things that would scare us. We would see the children looking out the windows at us walking around.
We went to the Jersey Shore every summer, and only later, when I read Philip Roth’s book about polio in Newark, did I realize that was the reason we went. No movies or swimming pools. My mother was terrified of it, with good reason.
One family I knew in the sixties had four children and they all got polio. The three boys only slight cases, which was common, but the girl really badly. She had many experimental operations, costing her family a fortune, but I don’t think her effects were ever cured. In fact in one case I know they got worse after the operation.