You can thank those persons who are against vaccinations....
You Go, anti-vaccers! I want each & every one of you anti-vax dickheads to go to YouTube Now and type in "living in an iron lung", one of the delightful public service films inflicted on me after lunch at least once a term in every grade until the polio vaccine arrived in 5th grade, all about how life will be just peachy in an iron lung. Be sure to watch until the end, when the camera pulls back to show Rows of the things keeping kids alive. And you wonder why old people are Warped??!!?
Many living now have no idea the demon that polio is. I realize this is only a related virus, but wonder if full vaccination might cross protect or moderate disease. Awful!
Yes,confined to a iron lung or similar machine for the rest of their lives....
Probably the only images that come to mind of persons who had polio are Joni Mitchell and FDR, and people think it really cant' be all that disabling based on what those persons accomplished. They have no idea. One of my older cousins was confined to a wheelchair, and he was one of the more fortunate.