⚠️⚠️⚠️ Don't want to give your kid a polio vaccine?
Perhaps you don't know about the "iron lung" that patients had to live in 24/7, for weeks, months, a lifetime. A lot of folks don't know, for real.
Is that want you want? Because THIS - these mid-1950s photos - will be the consequence. No kidding. Had a friend who spent part of her childhood in one. Then leg braces.
#Healthcare #CDC #Science #Cult
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in reply to Karen Strickholm • • •Kids with polio won't be in iron lungs.
No health insurance, no iron lungs.
See? Problem solved.
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in reply to Barbara Monaco • • •@Barbramon1 I was just looking up articles about him. But he was one of the few that could live long and have a family and a career. There is no article about those that died long before they time.
His story is amazing, but those that didn’t survive is the story.
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Barbara Monaco
in reply to 🇩🇰Blue. Zelensky. • • •I grew up in an era where I was surrounded by people of all ages crippled by polio.
I am not romanticizing the survivors, far from it, but explaining how unchecked polio has had disastrous effects on individuals.
Please don't tell me what the story is. Thanks.
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in reply to Barbara Monaco • • •Sorry if you felt attacked. That was not my intention.
Barbara Monaco
in reply to 🇩🇰Blue. Zelensky. • • •As an older person I've been witness to the entire spectrum of harms done by polio, ranging from a slight limp to post polio syndrome decades after infection.
Polio rarely kill its victims, but can negatively affect their quality of life forever. Younger generations need to know what to expect if the disease is permitted to return.
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in reply to Barbara Monaco • • •@Barbramon1 Sorry to tell you, but there is many people that isn’t in their right mind. They rather be Russian than democrats. They rather take a dewormer than medicine.
They rather watch their kids die “pure blood “ than give them a vaccine.
You trust people more than I do. And that’s great. Spreed the good energy.
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in reply to 🇩🇰Blue. Zelensky. • • •I am categorically opposed to doomerism. It will sink us.
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in reply to Karen Strickholm • • •Now, now, don't scare them. Iron lungs haven't been used in decades.
They use intubation ventilators now. Their kids will look like Christopher Reeve, and who doesn't want to compare their child to Superman, right?
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in reply to The Icarian • •Quite so, Icarian, but that also means they're killing off their own voter base, kicking in a Darwin effect they don't believe in either. I'm okay with that.
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in reply to Karen Strickholm • • •I'd say refer people to the Candyland story but in these late stage capitalism days I'm afraid people won't take this as a cautionary tale; but as an opportunity to make money....
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
How Polio Inspired the Creation of Candy Land
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Medtronic stock is up 16% for the year, but well below their Covid peak, so there is still time to get in and garner some profit from the chaos and misery. Though admittedly the private prison industry may be more attractive.
Hays company bringing back 'iron lungs' to help rural hospitals in need of ventilators
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in reply to Karen Strickholm • • •But, when I was in high school and when the polio vaccine became available, they had medical people from the hospital come out to the school and vaccinate everyone. So, anyone suggesting that we don't need to get the polio vaccine any longer needs to consider the conseq... show more
But, when I was in high school and when the polio vaccine became available, they had medical people from the hospital come out to the school and vaccinate everyone. So, anyone suggesting that we don't need to get the polio vaccine any longer needs to consider the consequences.
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It would be true to form if MAGA wanted to make polio great again simply because it's another reason (one of many) to hate Franklin D. Roosevelt for. FDR founded the March of Dimes specifically to fight polio. Just don't mention to any of them that it's FDR's image that remains on the dime.
marchofdimes.org/
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There's an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode starring Brian Keith in an iron lung, and there's some nuances about doctor's directions on how best to use one, like taking some time out of the device to strengthen the rib cage muscles. It's Season 5 Episode 5, title "No Pain" and I've not been able to find an easy link to stream the thing without additional corporate guff. It's in Archive.org but not by itself, which added to the difficulty. I found the entirety of Season 5 on one page, discovered that it's selection 33 which ran Episode 5 (yeah, go figure), and THEN I got to the following link:
archive.org/details/alfred-hit…
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in reply to Karen Strickholm • • •This is a really wonderful film about a man who lives in a iron lung who wants to have sex, lose his virginity. A sex therapist, played by Helen Hunt, is called in. This film is about that journey. Moving and funny, a great combo!
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