Tarus BALOG
Tarus BALOG  Β·  5 months ago

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@georgetakei this is personal for me.

When my grandmother found out that my Dad’s cousin James had contracted polio, she freaked out, thinking he might get it.

Salk would later use the virus taken from James Sarkett to make his vaccine, putting Daisytown, PA on the map. People were so relieved. It’s a shame people can’t remember those times.

Cody Boone Ferguson
Cody Boone Ferguson  Β·  5 months ago

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@georgetakei I try not getting into US politics or any politics but it’s curious that I made this the very day before I heard about this dangerous rubbish. #Vaccines should not be controversial. Vaccines save lives. I and countless others would be dead without them. Vaccines are a victim of their own success. They are safe and effective. Even the rare cases where something goes wrong it’s usually better than the disease including death. #polio is awful as is #measles and others!
Famous picture of iron lungs in I guess a hospital ward. I captioned it: BEFORE VACCINES. These very loud, scary coffin-shaped tubes are iron lungs, and they allowed thousands of people with polio to breathe. They were not living, they only survived; but even if you didn't exist in a loud and scary tube, there was a very big chance you'd become paralysed and unable to move, just like the late US President FDR. Vaccines made people forget this.
Famous picture of iron lungs in I guess a hospital ward. I captioned it: BEFORE VACCINES. These very loud, scary coffin-shaped tubes are iron lungs, and they allowed thousands of people with polio to breathe. They were not living, they only survived; but even if you didn't exist in a loud and scary tube, there was a very big chance you'd become paralysed and unable to move, just like the late US President FDR. Vaccines made people forget this.
Famous picture of iron lungs in I guess a hospital ward. I captioned it: BEFORE VACCINES. These very loud, scary coffin-shaped tubes are iron lungs, and they allowed thousands of people with polio to breathe. They were not living, they only survived; but even if you didn't exist in a loud and scary tube, there was a very big chance you'd become paralysed and unable to move, just like the late US President FDR. Vaccines made people forget this.
Killa Koala
Killa Koala  Β·  5 months ago

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@georgetakei Let me get this straight, the advanced nation with the most ruinously expensive healthcare system in the world, one that doesn't even cover a large part of its population, wants to re-expose itself to preventable diseases that would put huge numbers of children in hospital for weeks, months or even years and would kill many of them?
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