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19. Not the best choice of words

Tue May 12, 2020, 12:44 PM

May 2020

Sorry ...I didn’t mean to minimize or downplay anything, that wasn’t my intention at all.

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Reading up on the polio scare in the 1950s [View all] Ohiogal May 2020 OP

I remember it. I was just a little kid, but my mom, who was a nurse, The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #2

I remember getting the Sabin oral vaccine. Ohiogal May 2020 #5

That's the one I got MiniMe May 2020 #10

In the first cohort of babies to get the Salk vaccine DeminPennswoods May 2020 #11

Social Security disability did not start until 1956 dflprincess May 2020 #3

Thanks, that's what I was curious about. Ohiogal May 2020 #6

Poor farms, maybe, if you were able to do anything. Lars39 May 2020 #13

Most of the Kids I Wellstone ruled May 2020 #8

I remember the polio scare of the 1950's... Glorfindel May 2020 #7

I do recall Timewas May 2020 #9

My mom born in 1926 had polio, both legs in braces, worked a full career. Alex4Martinez May 2020 #15

Twice in this thread posters have used the term "polio scare" flotsam May 2020 #16

Not the best choice of words Ohiogal May 2020 #19

It wasn't a scare. It was a real threat. MineralMan May 2020 #17

OK not the best choice of words. Ohiogal May 2020 #18

Of course you didn't flotsam May 2020 #20

Thank you flotsam Ohiogal May 2020 #21