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Originally Posted by pavulon
I spoke to my mom on Tuesday and she made the observation that this is the second time in her life people have been asked to isolate themselves. The first time was the polio epidemic. I’m sure there were non-believers then too.
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I well remember the polio epidemic of 1955-56 and it scared the hell out of everyone. when the Salk Vaccine became available the whole town (pop. of around 2000 turned out en mass over the weekend to get vaccinated. No anit-vaxxers then,
For those of you not familiar with polio epidemics, they hit kids mostly... and many ended up in "iron lungs" and permanently paralyzed..