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leftieNanner

(15,084 posts)

2. My Mom

Reply to ret5hd (Original post)

Fri May 22, 2020, 07:02 PM

May 2020

couldn't get my sister and me down to the school auditorium fast enough to get our polio vaccine. I had a friend in kindergarten who had it. She was only mildly disabled, but the images of those rooms full of iron lungs scared the be-jeezus out of all the parents.

We will reach 100,000 deaths by early next week.

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In 1952 less than 58,000 people contracted polio... [View all] ret5hd May 2020 OP

My mother used to talk about those "polio summers"- dawg day May 2020 #1

My Mom leftieNanner May 2020 #2

That was my mother. She was terrified of polio--thought I had it as a baby. catrose May 2020 #7

My mom Laurelin May 2020 #16

But then, we had a real president back then. sandensea May 2020 #3

In 1950 leighbythesea2 May 2020 #4

One of my things to live by is same as your mom's - " there, but for the grace of god, go I". iluvtennis May 2020 #6

It has stuck with me leighbythesea2 May 2020 #8

God bless your mom. roamer65 May 2020 #12

Polio Squeaky41 May 2020 #5

That is leighbythesea2 May 2020 #9

My dad missed Boys State because it was cancelled that year. GulfCoast66 May 2020 #10

My mom had it, left her with a crippled foot. tavernier May 2020 #11

We thought stupid stuff like jumping into really cold water could give you polio.. denbot May 2020 #13

In approximately two weeks, SAR-COV-2 will be the third deadliest virus Blue_true May 2020 #14

Somehow, COVID-19 is a global conspiracy because Democrats don't like trump. Hermit-The-Prog May 2020 #15