My dad had polio when he was a kid, never quite walked right. The iron lung was another scary apparatus of the time.
What really brought Rona full circle to me, was the stories my grandmother (born in 1903) used to tell me about the Spanish Flu when I was a kid in the early 70’s. People dying alone, no room in hospitals, Except she didn’t say anyone panicked or it became a big political football.
