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paleotn

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2. My maternal aunt died of polio. She was 5.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Dec 1, 2024, 07:49 PM

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I'm old enough to remember older people who were crippled by the disease. A constant reminder back then. Most of them are now gone and the ramifications they personified are gone with them. These later generations have no idea the horror infectious disease caused and seem to not care about what turned the tide. When I was a kid, getting vaxed for a whole host of different pathogens was simply normal. Our parents knew well what would happened if we weren't. Today, not so much and that worries me a lot.

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Why polio is so dangerous [View all] struggle4progress Dec 1 OP

A good article but the concern I have, and a lot of other people is that they are a lot of people who seem to think that SWBTATTReg Dec 1 #1

My maternal aunt died of polio. She was 5. paleotn Dec 1 #2

As if RFK would continue to allow vaccines Farmer-Rick Dec 1 #3

I had a cousin with polio DeeDeeNY Dec 1 #4

People have no idea how bad polio is? Irish_Dem Dec 2 #5

There's useful info in the video: struggle4progress Dec 2 #6

Diseases that were wiped out are now making a return. Irish_Dem Dec 2 #7