re: #404 Backwoods_Sleuth

I recall getting an injection of the Salk polio vaccine when I was in Second Grade. That made it 1955. I don’t believe that the sugar cubes came out until the Sabin vaccine.

It is a horrible disease. I recall parents who were just miserable because their children had polio-like symptoms. There were outbreaks and rumors of outbreaks. Most everyone knew someone whom polio had put on crutches or, worse, into an iron lung. I also recall not using drinking fountains and avoiding the swimming hole in the heat of summer because the disease was so damned contagious. To gain immunity to something that we feared so much seemed miraculous at the time.

Yeah, I’m old too. Beats the alternative.