The last few polio survivors: Last of the iron lungs (2017) [video]
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#2The horrors of each infectious disease we have developed a therapy, vaccine, or cure for is so quickly forgotten and, then taken for granted. Hopefully, videos like this will remind people that the idea of 'the good old days' is fueled by ignorance and hubris.
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#3Kudos to this strong man. Got a law degree, practices, and operates a computer with just his mouth.
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#4Recent and related:
The dream of polio eradication might need a rethink - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35519473 - April 2023 (50 comments)
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#5Men like this are rare. I can't ever imagine myself in a situation like that, but his will to live is stronger than his disease. What strength.
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#6The horrors of each infectious disease we have developed a therapy, vaccine, or cure for is so quickly forgotten and, then taken for granted. Hopefully, videos like this will remind people that the idea of 'the good old days' is fueled by ignorance and hubris.
Someone got paralyzed by polio, in New York, USA in 2022. Completely preventable. History needs to be taught.
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#7The engineer who maintains his iron lung, Brady, mentored my FIRST robotics team when I was a kid. Standup guy. (I think it's the same guy. That looks like the shop we worked in.)
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#8The horrors of each infectious disease we have developed a therapy, vaccine, or cure for is so quickly forgotten and, then taken for granted. Hopefully, videos like this will remind people that the idea of 'the good old days' is fueled by ignorance and hubris.
Someone got paralyzed by polio, in New York, USA in 2022. Completely preventable. History needs to be taught.
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#10The horrors of each infectious disease we have developed a therapy, vaccine, or cure for is so quickly forgotten and, then taken for granted. Hopefully, videos like this will remind people that the idea of 'the good old days' is fueled by ignorance and hubris.
My grandmother had polio as a child, she wore a leg brace her whole life. When I was a kid new vaccines were a medical wonder, to our parents they were world changing - now we have crazy cookers spouting crazy conspiracy theories telling us they've got 5G chips in them.
We have to keep telling these family stories to our kids otherwise we forget why vaccination has changed our world