re: #267 HappyWarrior

The boomers also were the first generation to get the polio vaccine in masse.

Too bad my mother and my wife’s mother were not. My wife’s mother spent her life in a wheelchair and died of post-polio syndrome. My mother recovered sufficiently to enlist in the US Navy, but now suffers post-polio syndrome.

The last known case in the wild was sixteen miles from my home when I was three.