[GreenKeys] [External] Re: Vaccinations

[Richard Knoppow]

    I had both kinds. The first was a shot, I think you needed 
two or three, then came the oral vaccine on the sugar cube. There 
was a terrible polio epidemic c.1948, not sure of the dates. I 
spent my summers out of the city (Detroit). The most familiar 
image was of kids in iron lungs. If ever there was an instrument 
of torture to make nightmares of that was it. Everyone knew 
someone who had a brush with polio, left its marks on many. My 
doctor when in the country had a curved back and limp because of 
it. Having it could be considered shamful! FDR hid his paralysis, 
perhaps because he wanted to seem stronger and Connie Boswell, of 
the Boswell Sisters, always said her paralysis was from being hit 
by a steet car but it was from polio. What a world.

On 4/9/2021 1:49 PM, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>>   Â Â  I had the Pfizer vaccine and had no real side effects from
>> either shot. Some soreness near the injection site, gone after
>> about three days. I feel sleepy a lot of the time anyway, perhaps
>> comes from being 80.
>>   Â Â  I am old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was
>> introduced. If people were as frightened of The Virus as they
>> were of polio most would welcome the vaccine.
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> I remember eating a sugar cue with the polio vaccine on it.
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Richard Knoppow
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