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flotsam

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20. Of course you didn't

Reply to Ohiogal (Reply #18)

Tue May 12, 2020, 01:10 PM

May 2020

and there's no need to apologize. I've seen the term printed elsewhere and it always struck me as the kind of framing the GOP would use. They're already using covid "hoax" and if they can move it into a covid scare they will and blame Democrats...

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

You should read up on the last remaining Iron Lung "survivors"... Most have no idea that some people hlthe2b May 2020 #1

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

I remember my Mom getting ready to take us to the doctor for our boosters (pre-Sabine vaccine) dflprincess May 2020 #12

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

If she had her SS quarter hours, she could have been eligbile when the act was passed in 1956 LeftInTX May 2020 #14

Most of the Kids I Wellstone ruled May 2020 #8

Highly RECable. Someone said "I don't remember anything like this ever happening before" referring progree May 2020 #4

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