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The closest thing that people in the US might have a living memory of is the polio epidemic in the US in 1952. [0] Granted anyone who is old enough to have liv

The closest thing that people in the US might have a living memory of is the polio epidemic in the US in 1952. [0] Granted anyone who is old enough to have lived through that and remember it is probably on lock down in a nursing home right about now. The people in power now would have been children around that time so who knows if it would have a made an impression on them. [0] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/10/16/162670836/wiping-out-polio-how-the-u-s-snuffed-out-a-killer https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/10/16/1626708...

akiselev 7y ago
Mitch Mcconnell, the person who sets the legislative agenda in the Senate, wrote this in his memoir: It’s one of my life’s great fortunes that Sister’s home was only about sixty miles from Warm Springs, Georgia, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt had established a polio treatment center and where he’d often travel to find relief from the polio that paralyzed him at the age of thirty-nine. My mother took me there every chance she had. The nurses would teach her how to perform exercises meant to rehabilitate my leg while also emphasizing her need to make me believe I could walk, even though I wasn’t allowed to. I bet it left an impression.
- dhosek 7y ago
  Apparently not enough of one.
lazyasciiart 7y ago
It made a huge impression on many children in the 50s still - there were still tens of thousands dying and being paralyzed each year until the late 50s, and by this point they were predominantly small children being affected. My parents are in their early 60s and they remember it well - when she was five her friend was partially paralyzed for life by it. https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/us-polio-cases-1952-1962 https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/us-polio-cases-195... had friends who died. They were given behavior restrictions.
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throw9o8765 7y ago
H1N1 in 2009.

akiselev 7y ago

Mitch Mcconnell, the person who sets the legislative agenda in the Senate, wrote this in his memoir: It’s one of my life’s great fortunes that Sister’s home was only about sixty miles from Warm Springs, Georgia, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt had established a polio treatment center and where he’d often travel to find relief from the polio that paralyzed him at the age of thirty-nine. My mother took me there every chance she had. The nurses would teach her how to perform exercises meant to rehabilitate my leg while also emphasizing her need to make me believe I could walk, even though I wasn’t allowed to. I bet it left an impression.

dhosek 7y ago
Apparently not enough of one.

lazyasciiart 7y ago

It made a huge impression on many children in the 50s still - there were still tens of thousands dying and being paralyzed each year until the late 50s, and by this point they were predominantly small children being affected. My parents are in their early 60s and they remember it well - when she was five her friend was partially paralyzed for life by it. https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/us-polio-cases-1952-1962 https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/us-polio-cases-195... had friends who died. They were given behavior restrictions.

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throw9o8765 7y ago

H1N1 in 2009.