Both were victims of polio. The oral vaccine was approved right as I entered elementary school and it was administered to children in the classroom, with parental approval.

I don't know if those two children didn't get the vaccine or if they developed polio right before the vaccine was available.

That would be a great commercial before the next election just like the 1964 political ad with a little girl counting down with daisy petals until you hear the male voice background countdown and see an atomic bomb explosion at zero.

You'd see a black and white school hallway and just hear that metal clank........... before you see a child in braces. Then in LARGE PRINT, "VACCINES COULD HAVE PREVENTED THIS".

A HEALTH apocalypse may be in the offing.

Which is why you see so much white hair at the protests

There was no vaccine when he got polio; the Salk vaccine wasn't available to the public until 1955. I remember getting it and making a huge fuss about having to get a shot, a complaint which fell on my mother's deaf ears. She had been a nurse and saw plenty of kids in iron lungs.

But maybe the new deaf market instead?? (please no)

and doubtless, most of them will be defective and not 'puncture proof'.

Then they'll throw them in a landfill or dump them in the ocean to inevitably become toxic or eaten by sea lilfe who will eventually die from it.

But some of the survivors in iron lungs preferred the old, and stuck with it even after other technology was available.