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uppityperson

(115,677 posts) Sat Jan 31, 2015, 10:37 PM Jan 2015

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Neil Young, Desmond Tutu, Mia Farrow, Gene Simmons, FDR. Commonality?

Polio survivors from before there was a vaccine and (most) have worked to get the vaccine out and/or help others with the disease.

http://www.globalcitizen.org/Content/Content.aspx?id=6ea36606-bba0-456d-b84d-4dd1e55072b1

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Neil Young, Desmond Tutu, Mia Farrow, Gene Simmons, FDR. Commonality? (Original Post) uppityperson Jan 2015 OP

Robert Redford too JustAnotherGen Jan 2015 #1

Wow, I didn't know he was one. Thank you. uppityperson Jan 2015 #2

Yep JustAnotherGen Jan 2015 #3

I was thinking they were all Libras jberryhill Feb 2015 #4

And there is LG's exception? uppityperson Feb 2015 #5

and according to wikipedia: yitzhak perlman, donald sutherland, alan alda, frances ford coppola, ND-Dem Feb 2015 #6

JustAnotherGen

(31,828 posts)

1. Robert Redford too

Reply to uppityperson (Original post)

Sat Jan 31, 2015, 10:39 PM

Jan 2015

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)

2. Wow, I didn't know he was one. Thank you.

Reply to JustAnotherGen (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 31, 2015, 10:44 PM

Jan 2015

JustAnotherGen

(31,828 posts)

3. Yep

Reply to uppityperson (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 31, 2015, 10:47 PM

Jan 2015

He shared it in his biography.

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

4. I was thinking they were all Libras

Reply to uppityperson (Original post)

Sun Feb 1, 2015, 04:47 AM

Feb 2015

But Libras don't need to be vaccinated, since they are naturally immune.

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)

5. And there is LG's exception?

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #4)

Sun Feb 1, 2015, 02:02 PM

Feb 2015

ND-Dem

(4,571 posts)

6. and according to wikipedia: yitzhak perlman, donald sutherland, alan alda, frances ford coppola,

Reply to uppityperson (Original post)

Sun Feb 1, 2015, 02:15 PM

Feb 2015

bill Cullen, ben bradlee, Arthur c Clarke, Emmett Watson (seattle newspaperman), Robert anton Wilson, judy Collins, Donovan, Dinah shore, joni Mitchell, jack Nicklaus, Wilma Rudolf, frida Kahlo, dorothea lange, Emmett till, and Eleanor abbott (the woman who created the 'candyland' game)

and many others...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poliomyelitis_survivors

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