Same thing here... His mother didn't believe in the Polio vaccine. He hated his mother and couldn't forgive her...

I know, God forbid I actually did some research to post an informed opinion on the topic. Then was open and honest about the source of said information. Crazy huh? But don’t worry I’m sure somebody who was 2 when the vaccine came out will provide you with some top notch data on the topic.:rolleyes:

Translation: I can't explain my logic so I will just refuse to discuss it.

You also didn't notice the rest of my post:

I remember getting vaccinated 4 times. I would be at school and if a line would form, I got in line. Got a shot, a sugar cube an air shot and drank a liquid. May have gotten more. Only person that I knew well that had gotten polio said the morphine addiction was almost as bad as the disease. He did walk with a pretty bad limp.

You can’t talk about the terror polio was without referencing the iron lung. It was a body encapsulating respirator that only ones head stuck out of. I remember visiting a school mate and it was like something from a horror movie. Polio terrified my mom. I remember her crying with joy when I was vaccinated.

As I have written here before, my Father was a Nuclear Physicist. He had a trust in the process of science because he was trustworthy, that the protocols would be followed.

Even after the Cutter incident (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/) we just got in line and did the deal. I bet the Cutter incident was never really reported in a manner that affected my vaccine in the early 60's.

Polio vaccine was the sugar cube express. I got very sick.

Smallpox prick, the same. Almost went to the hospital.

Completely different time: If Walter or The Huntley–Brinkley Report said it was good to go, off you went.

It was a different time but the tv guys were John Cameron Swayze and Edward R Murrow. Walter and the boys came to fame in the 60’s.

How many of you have a scar on your right shoulder (deltoid) for small pox vaccine?

Mine ended up on the top of my shoulder blade. Freaked my parents out.

And the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (supposedly our expert of experts) didn't say:
"the virus is not a threat to Americans"
"the virus is a major threat to Americans"
"no mask, wear gloves"
"no gloves, wear mask"
"wear two masks"
"it came from who knows where"
"oh wait it maybe came from China"...

Doesn't that build confidence?

As a kid, I would see other kids & people inflicted with polio walking with crutches, & in wheel chairs. I dated a girl in the late sixties, whose father was in an iron lung & had a nurse attending him 24/7. He was the head of a large company that made aircraft parts in San Diego & could afford that kind of service. The engineers at his company had made him a wheel chair with a fiberglass pod that strapped over his stomach. It had a diaphram that pushed in & out to allow him to breathe. His nurse fed him when he went out to dinner. I found out he died a few years later, & his wife died of cancer a couple of years after that. They had so much but unfortunately couldn't be saved from their fate.

The only people of the time that would have agreed with that are white males (mainly the delusional variety) - everyone else would question the idea that US politicians have ever been anything except power hungry, self-serving, lowlifes and scumbags.

You made a great first post/thread why would you fuk it up with this nonsense? Onwhippedpuppy was clearly being sarcastic.

You just cant help being a dik can you?

I got mine at srp.... ;)

WTF be srp...?

1960's-70's for me. Both in school by the nurse. I recall three drops under the tongue, what ever that was? Then this giant needle machine that left the scar on the left arm. That was wiped after each student. I kind of recall it sounded like it was winding up before it went bump. Whaaa, bump but no pain.

As I stated distrust in those in Government, and the news media. I think this thread is proof?

https://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-politics-religion/1095601-tell-me-again-how-its-safe.html

People were much fewer and travelled a LOT less in the 1940's...and yet the same tactics to curb spread were employed. Maybe put some salve on your vaginas or ask India how things are going for them.


Polio Once Caused Widespread Panic

In the late 1940s, polio outbreaks in the U.S. increased in frequency and size, disabling an average of more than 35,000 people each year. Parents were frightened to let their children go outside, especially in the summer when the virus seemed to peak. Travel and commerce between affected cities were sometimes restricted. Public health officials imposed quarantines (used to separate and restrict the movement of well people who may have been exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become ill) on homes and towns where polio cases were diagnosed.

https://www.cdc.gov/polio/what-is-polio/polio-us.html

At our Catholic school in Escondido CA 1960 .
The vaccine was received like the coming of god.
Kid down the street died, made a impression on me.

Perhaps of interest:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/03/988756973/cant-help-falling-in-love-with-a-vaccine-how-polio-campaign-beat-vaccine-hesitan

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/18/elvis-presley-polio-vaccine-confidence-448131

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history.html

Good reads. Thanks.