Thank God we didn't have this crop of anti-vax losers during Polio. Most of us would not be here

[demtenjeep]

My aunt had it when she was 2.

My mom told us of the "shame" they felt in their home being quarantined and her poor family had to give up almost everything to keep her alive.



My aunt forever lived with a deformed arm and when she developed lung cancer (never smoked) they were going to remove the lung that was infected but couldn't because they found her other lung was flat-always had been because of polio

[Ocelot II]

1. I remember very well the terror of polio during the early '50s, and how

we kids were kept away from public playgrounds and swimming areas during the summer. And I remember how we were whisked off to be vaccinated as soon as the Salk vaccine became available. As a child I wouldn't have been aware of anti-vax protests had there been any, but subsequently I never heard of any.

[dweller]

2. I recently picked up NEMESIS

Philip Roth’s last book about the polio epidemic in New Jersey. Fiction, but still comparable to the coronavirus epidemic today .
Wapo review:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/philip-roths-epidemic-and-ours/2020/04/04/f527d956-75ba-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html


✌🏻

[Blue Owl]

3. K&R

[Arkansas Granny]

4. I went to a small school in rural SW Missouri. The County Health Dept.

had vaccination clinics set up at the larger schools in our area and everyone lined up for the shot, including preschool kids.

I don't remember any protest or hesitation by anyone. We all knew someone who had contracted polio and we had seen the hospital wards filled with iron lung patients.