DO you want to have your kids to hear the clank of braces?

[nitpicked]

It was late-in-the-day. BUT there was one elementary classmate with leg braces.

((I have NO clue if the parents refused the vaccine, or if it didn't take.))

[yardwork]

1. There were two children in my class in wheelchairs.

Both were victims of polio. The oral vaccine was approved right as I entered elementary school and it was administered to children in the classroom, with parental approval.

I don't know if those two children didn't get the vaccine or if they developed polio right before the vaccine was available.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

2. Oh my..... that's a chilling question

That would be a great commercial before the next election just like the 1964 political ad with a little girl counting down with daisy petals until you hear the male voice background countdown and see an atomic bomb explosion at zero.

You'd see a black and white school hallway and just hear that metal clank........... before you see a child in braces. Then in LARGE PRINT, "VACCINES COULD HAVE PREVENTED THIS".

A HEALTH apocalypse may be in the offing.

[Walleye]

3. The idiots in this administration don't realize how many people remember that vividly and are still alive

Which is why you see so much white hair at the protests

[Ocelot II]

4. A college classmate had a leg brace from polio when he was a kid.

There was no vaccine when he got polio; the Salk vaccine wasn't available to the public until 1955. I remember getting it and making a huge fuss about having to get a shot, a complaint which fell on my mother's deaf ears. She had been a nurse and saw plenty of kids in iron lungs.

[DURHAM D]

5. Is it time to invest in whatever company makes iron lungs? nt

[nitpicked]

6. I'm sure that they've cornered the twisted back market

But maybe the new deaf market instead?? (please no)

[some_of_us_are_sane]

7. They'll probably make them out of plastic sheeting now

and doubtless, most of them will be defective and not 'puncture proof'.

Then they'll throw them in a landfill or dump them in the ocean to inevitably become toxic or eaten by sea lilfe who will eventually die from it.

[Ms. Toad]

8. There's new ventilator technology now,

But some of the survivors in iron lungs preferred the old, and stuck with it even after other technology was available.