Post #1528991
2026-01-28 21:26 UTC
@capnthommo @sallyjeffery @mattjohns @afewbugs I was too young for that, but in the early 80s I did have one of my favourite teachers, an older lady, who had the dreadful steel cage around her leg to walk, because she had Polio as a kid. I really don't understand why anyone wouldn't want vaccines...
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@tompearce49@mastodon.scot 2026-01-28 21:45
@LordWoolamaloo @capnthommo @sallyjeffery @mattjohns @afewbugs I remember two things - the relief with my parents when the oral polio vaccine became available when I was a child and then, as a medical student in Manchester, seeing the last of the patients still in an "iron lung". That, and the devastating effect of measles and mumps encephalitis with the death or major disability of loved children. I despise RFK jnr and wha he and his acolytes are doing.