Remember That Time You Got Polio?

[ItsjustMe]

[El Supremo]

1. I don't remember my parents having anything to do with it.

We got it at school (both the Salk and Sabin). It was mandatory, I think. I sure don't remember any kids refusing it.

[Bev54]

2. You know the stupid thing about this, a friend of our family from

very small town and one of my sister's best friends from grade school and still (now 70 years old), had polio when she was very young and still limps from it today. My sister and brother both have become anti vaxxers, not really sure why because they are too obnoxious to speak to. I am wondering how her friend feels about this, she lives close by.

[demtenjeep]

7. my aunt had polio. Our family was dirt poor

My mom remembers their home being quarantined and she felt ashamed. My aunt had a messed up arm all her life.

Later when she got lung cancer, they were going to remove the cancerous lung but discovered her other lung was useless and it was never known-due to Polio

[multigraincracker]

3. I can think of at least 3 people in my Jr. High

who had it. Also getting vaccinated at school.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. I have known a handful of people who got it,

before the vaccine. My father-in-law who was born in 1909. A high school teacher, and a boy I was in kindergarten with. It's possible more people I've known had it, and for some reason I'm not aware of them.

[RKP5637]

5. Hey, let's bring back polio, that was such a fun time and what lovely iron lungs.

Maybe the anti-vaxxers would love that. ... think having a vaccine infringes on ones life ... try an iron lung on for size. Some of my friends remember people they knew spending their lives in an iron lung. The stupidity and ignorance by many today is stunning, so damn many clueless people.

[womanofthehills]

9. There still are polio cases in Afghanistan , Pakistan ,

Yemen, Congo etc - 23 cases last week

[RKP5637]

13. It's so sad humans don't work together more to help everyone. n/t

[Leith]

6. In my elementary school

there was a special hallway with classrooms where physically disabled students were taught. Several of them were polio victims. The rest of us thought it was horribly tragic for them. I'm thankful to medical professionals that the vaccine was available for me.

Tomorrow I am getting my second Pfizer shot and, again, I am thankful to medical professionals that it is available for me. Those who refuse to take advantage of their opportunities must be insane or irretrievably stupid.

[RKP5637]

14. Yes, I think many are irretrievably stupid. It's incredible! n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

10. I was in sixth grade and one of the girls was on crutches, thanks to polio...

Most of the rest of us were vaxxed, I have no idea why she wasn't, but she was so nice it was heartbreaking to see.

[question everything]

11. Barely. I was very young, before the vaccines.

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. I remember classmates on crutches. I remember "Sabin on Sunday",

when my mother took me down to drink a little sip of some tasteless pink stuff from a little paper cup.

What I DON'T remember is a bunch of loudmouth losers making a big stink about it.