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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn 1952 less than 58,000 people contracted polio...
in the U.S.
Less than 22,000 of those cases were paralytic.
Parents were terrified their children would contract polio.
In 2020 over 1,600,000 people have contracted Covid in the U.S.
Over 95,000 of those have died.
But remember: Its all just a hoax.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)When they closed the swimming pools and cancelled parades.
I bet there weren't too many Trumper types back then, deliberately coughing on people like now. What's the difference? Hmm, maybe the difference between Truman/Eisenhower and Trump.
leftieNanner
(15,084 posts)couldn't get my sister and me down to the school auditorium fast enough to get our polio vaccine. I had a friend in kindergarten who had it. She was only mildly disabled, but the images of those rooms full of iron lungs scared the be-jeezus out of all the parents.
We will reach 100,000 deaths by early next week.
catrose
(5,065 posts)Laurelin
(525 posts)Was a polio nurse during that epidemic. She thought Dr. Salk was a hero.
She went to the Rocky Mountains to nurse polio patients (I have no idea why the Rockies). Years later when we vacationed at Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons we had to fly over the Rockies, rather than drive through them. She refused to go near them because her memories of that time were so terrible. She said she got into an iron lung to see what her patients experienced.
I worry about the doctors and nurses who are dealing with covid patients. And I'm furious with the brainwashed and entitled brats who protest masks and stay at home orders.
sandensea
(21,627 posts)leighbythesea2
(1,200 posts)My mom was one of them. She spent a year in the hospital.
It affected her arms. No arm or shoulder muscle.
Full career. No disability. Not even a handicap sticker.
Die hard Democrat. Jimmy Carter is one of her favorite presidents.
And i heard forever " there, but for the grace of god, go I" regarding the less fortunate. And she wasnt religious.
She has Alzheimer's now and is with me. She hates Trump and mutters every time he is on, then mutes him.
I do enjoy that.
iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)leighbythesea2
(1,200 posts)It really is the golden rule.
And thanks!
roamer65
(36,745 posts)I was among 4 guinea pigs in Maine testing the Salk Vaccine at the time.
leighbythesea2
(1,200 posts)Very interesting!
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)For a boy from a very small town in Louisiana he may have missed a life changing opportunity.
tavernier
(12,384 posts)She made sure I was the first one in line for the vaccine in our town.
denbot
(9,899 posts)My cousin Needa was my same age (Im now 62) had polio. She needed crutches to walk for only very short distances. Needa was a really nice person, beautiful and smart. She passed in her late 20s early 30s, from what I cannot remember.
Im pretty sure anyone in my entire family would at the least laugh at any anti-vaxer, should they be the lucky type.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)in US history, closing in on #2. By the end of September, only the 1918 Pandemic will be ahead of it.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,342 posts)I'm not smart enough to figure out how that works.