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In reply to the discussion: I was a child in a time before there were vaccines for most [View all]Buckeyeblue
(5,519 posts)80. My grandfather survived polio in the hills of West Virginia
When anti-vaccinatinators start talking their shit around me, I just ask them if they know what the results of polio look like (if you are fortunate enough to live)? And then I tell them about his crooked spin, his twisted left leg, a lifetime of pain just to walk across the room.
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In 62 some of us in grad school went to Germany. We got a ton of vaccines. V sore arm!
bobbieinok
Feb 2019
#9
Regarding plague, I visited Badlands National Park. There are Prairie Dog "villages."
3Hotdogs
Feb 2019
#32
Those pix look very much like my elementary school when the shot clinic was held...
Hekate
Feb 2019
#45
Almost died from the mumps - I was a toddler. I have a scar on my neck from the draining tubes.
AnotherMother4Peace
Feb 2019
#10
All 5 of us got all our vaccinations, no questions asked, and only 1 of us died the day after.
pnwmom
Feb 2019
#56
I grew up in the shadow of the old polio terror, but the other diseases were expected and 'normal'
Chemisse
Feb 2019
#12
While all the parents knew about the dangers of polio, the others were more uncommon
Chemisse
Feb 2019
#71
"Childhood diseases" were never trivial -- they just winnowed out children into the graveyard.
Hekate
Feb 2019
#59
Meanwhile, the CIA set the polio eradication efforts back trying to find Bin Laden in Pakistan
OnlinePoker
Feb 2019
#18
Frightening that this anti-vax ideology is a thing. This isn't some prehistorical thing where
ck4829
Feb 2019
#25
The really sad thing to me is it is going to take a couple cases of history repeating itself
appleannie1943
Feb 2019
#51
It's going to take an epidemic to truly discredit the anti-vax movement, but they won't suffer...
ck4829
Feb 2019
#75
i remember lining up at the local high school to get a sugar cube with a polio vaccine..
samnsara
Feb 2019
#63