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Greybnk48

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84. Yep. In the late 50's. The kid across the street

Thu Feb 27, 2020, 07:38 PM

Feb 2020

got polio and had to wear braces for years.

Our PA neighborhood was also restricted for scarlet fever for a short while.

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Regarding the coronavirus, do any of you folks remember being [View all] rzemanfl Feb 2020 OP

I don't remember being confined to the yard, Lindsay Feb 2020 #1

I remember no movies, no drinking fountains as well. rzemanfl Feb 2020 #8

I couldn't play in the ditch after a rain. Luz Feb 2020 #10

I used to come home so muddy my mother would spray me with a hose. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #12

Same for me. Got the vaccine, both Salk Polly Hennessey Feb 2020 #37

Born in 1953, I was lucky. PCIntern Feb 2020 #2

I don't remember being confined to our yard Mossfern Feb 2020 #3

Same here wryter2000 Feb 2020 #27

I do remember parents being worried. MineralMan Feb 2020 #4

I'm pretty sure I got it when I was in second grade. rzemanfl Feb 2020 #11

My brother-in-law had a mild case of polio MineralMan Feb 2020 #13

I was in the Chicago suburbs. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #15

Not sugar cubes? Ms. Toad Feb 2020 #16

Nope. The original Salk vaccine was a shot. MineralMan Feb 2020 #17

Looks like the oral vaccine was about 6 years after the injection. Ms. Toad Feb 2020 #18

Thanks for that info. MineralMan Feb 2020 #21

You should have gotten it in 1955, because that's when the first mass vaccinations were. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2020 #19

Small farming town in California. MineralMan Feb 2020 #20

Interesting. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2020 #39

I don't think so. MineralMan Feb 2020 #40

I likewise think you'd remember. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2020 #79

That would have been when I was in second grade so it fits my recollection. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #29

My Wife's Sister died from it. Turbineguy Feb 2020 #5

as recent as 12 years ago we had local quarantine do to whooping cough beachbumbob Feb 2020 #6

Too young JustAnotherGen Feb 2020 #7

I was at summer camp in Maine. They closed the camp and kept us in and Raven Feb 2020 #9

Just before my memory - Ms. Toad Feb 2020 #14

No, but I do remember getting a booster vaccine before I started kindergarten. GoCubsGo Feb 2020 #22

Yup - oral vaccine in sugar-water in a tiny Dixie cup jpak Feb 2020 #33

Vaccine on a sugar cube shanti Feb 2020 #52

Topics like this remind me of the huge age skew on here Amishman Feb 2020 #23

I was a child of the 80's as well, my parents each had dewsgirl Feb 2020 #34

The vaccine scar Mossfern Feb 2020 #41

Oh..i forgot. dewsgirl Feb 2020 #50

We called it the "human test" jberryhill Feb 2020 #54

It looks so painful.😳 Did It hurt? I remember always thinking dewsgirl Feb 2020 #63

No, the injury was not directly from the injection jberryhill Feb 2020 #66

Thank you, they were always a big source of anxiety when dewsgirl Feb 2020 #68

Imagining all of those Marching Dimes was what got me jberryhill Feb 2020 #75

LoL🤣 dewsgirl Feb 2020 #76

That's from a smallpox vaccine. hedda_foil Mar 2020 #89

Yep. That's where this sub thread went jberryhill Mar 2020 #90

I typed it and forgot to post it for an hour or so and missed the posts in between. hedda_foil Mar 2020 #92

So, as long as we're here jberryhill Mar 2020 #93

Thanks jberry! I'm hanging in. hedda_foil Mar 2020 #94

I remember lining up for sugar cubes Ohiogal Feb 2020 #24

I 'remember the sugar cubes. blueinredohio Feb 2020 #31

Yep, I remember that. MicaelS Feb 2020 #58

Or dentists complaining about sugar cubes jberryhill Feb 2020 #67

In the early 1950s Silver Swan Feb 2020 #25

Oh, yes, I remember being restricted. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2020 #26

Gotta tell you a story. I was a terrible ballplayer as a kid. rzemanfl Feb 2020 #28

I was bad at most sports. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2020 #38

Not after he told me it was bad form to throw out a kid in braces at home plate rzemanfl Feb 2020 #43

Yeah, you have to give credit to the kid for playing while wearing braces. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2020 #45

First person I thought of when I saw rzemanfl Feb 2020 #46

I can see that. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2020 #48

My uncle got it shanti Feb 2020 #53

My uncle also contracted polio peggysue2 Feb 2020 #72

It was a terrible disease. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2020 #73

Yes. We had a kid down the block that caught it actually. Was in Independence MO back then... SWBTATTReg Feb 2020 #30

A girl down the block from me had it csziggy Feb 2020 #51

Yes. We weren't allowed to swim anymore in the State Park with the Cypress tree pond. Walleye Feb 2020 #32

I was born in 1948. murielm99 Feb 2020 #35

I remember the fear well and the people with aftereffects. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #36

Lived in a very rural area - very isolated zeusdogmom Feb 2020 #42

The fancy girls got them on their upper thighs (not at school of course). rzemanfl Feb 2020 #44

I got mine shanti Feb 2020 #57

Without permission I trust. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #59

Mother shanti Feb 2020 #60

I was suggesting a few people might have had permission to see the scar. rzemanfl Feb 2020 #61

Oh you! shanti Feb 2020 #62

My mother had the pediatrician give mine in the upper thigh. Oddly I didn't scar. hedda_foil Mar 2020 #91

Swimming instructor?😄 zeusdogmom Feb 2020 #80

Merely an observant heterosexual male. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #83

Yep. No yard confinement but also no swimming, COLGATE4 Feb 2020 #47

Could not run through the sprinkler and must take naps. Sneederbunk Feb 2020 #77

Oh hell, yes! I had forgotten about having to take naps!!!!!! COLGATE4 Feb 2020 #86

I remember a friend of mine had Polio, we were not allowed to visit him. redstatebluegirl Feb 2020 #49

Born in '49. Had both the Salk and Sabin vaccines. Three kids WheelWalker Feb 2020 #55

Nope, just missed it - but DO remember Hong Kong Flu quarantines jberryhill Feb 2020 #56

I don't remember it but I was born in 1965 eilen Feb 2020 #64

I remember standing in line for an oral dose of the polio vaccine. nt tblue37 Feb 2020 #65

I was strictly forbidden to play in the swamp Brother Buzz Feb 2020 #69

I remember all sorts of speculation as to what caused it. gibraltar72 Feb 2020 #70

From Wikipedia- rzemanfl Feb 2020 #71

I was born in '56 Raftergirl Feb 2020 #74

My wife had it KatyMan Feb 2020 #78

Good for her. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #82

I was born (1973) well after the polio scares The Genealogist Feb 2020 #81

Yep. In the late 50's. The kid across the street Greybnk48 Feb 2020 #84

I was in the Chicago suburbs. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #85

I had one of the early vaccines but my cousin got polio. She was 2 years older. Liberty Belle Mar 2020 #87

The absolutely worse was a Texas summer with no SWIMMIMG. efhmc Mar 2020 #88