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nitpicker

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14. Not everyone was reached in time with polio vaccine

Reply to homegirl (Reply #9)

Thu Dec 30, 2021, 02:01 PM

Dec 2021

In 1966, one of my classmates wore leg braces.

((How many will be suffering from long COVID?))

And I do remember the sugar cube.

And I THINK I still can detect the smallpox shot scar.

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LOL.... [View all] pbmus Dec 2021 OP

And polio! SheltieLover Dec 2021 #1

Smallpox and polio homegirl Dec 2021 #9

Not everyone was reached in time with polio vaccine nitpicker Dec 2021 #14

No shit! malaise Dec 2021 #2

And to think the uni-bomber wanted to kill computers KS Toronado Dec 2021 #3

I remember getting my sugar cube with the red dot in it for polio. Lonestarblue Dec 2021 #4

that is so true !! I call it generational stupidity!! monkeyman1 Dec 2021 #5

A generation raised on the false prophesies of Murdoch's propaganda machine. Ford_Prefect Dec 2021 #6

Did you by chance live in the philadelphia area at that time? Oppaloopa Dec 2021 #12

K&R - - that's a doozey! Talitha Dec 2021 #7

I'm almost 65 and I still have my small pox scar TexasBushwhacker Dec 2021 #8

I'm 72 & wife from same school's got the same thing & no grip's !! monkeyman1 Dec 2021 #10

Childhood diseases were too often fatal central scrutinizer Dec 2021 #11

Well, there was heavy opposition to smallpox vaccination, MineralMan Dec 2021 #13