Polio was real in the 1950s.
My dad had it. He was gone for 4 months between the hospital and rehab. He was one of the lucky ones who didn't have any permanent problems. When the Salk vaccine was introduced, we were 1st in line. Same for the Sabine.
I remember going to the health clinic in Atlanta, Doraville actually might have been 1956, and getting that vaccine. The nurse put this sugar stuff, it was red colored, on a sugar cube, and the diminutive yard apes ate the sugar cube.
I had a class mate in high school who had had polio, what a tragedy, leg braces wheel chair etc.
I tell you what all the Moms in my neighborhood in Chamblee Geogia in 1956 were not playing games with vaccines, every yard-ape in my school got that goddam polio vaccine. Moms were scared to death of that sh*t.
