So I'm just a cynical pessimist.. but hey what does history tell me?!?!?
So today I just read about the US 1st reported case of Polio... holy rat fuck.. as if things couldn't get worse..
Now I didn't live through it.. My parents did, the only thing I recall was the scar on their left arm and or hearing about it maybe possibly via the March of Dimes... wow.. I wonder how many kids.. (not Gen X) know about the March of Dimes? I say this because while my memory is fuzzy about what they were about back then. I fully know what they are now... FDR. Salk.. Iron Lungs.. If I remember it popped it's ugly head up to be a national problem after WWI... but let's check.. 1894 first recorded outbreak.. 1907 NY City had 2500 cases...
So yeahhhhhhh... around 1916 is when it jumped to 25k plus cases...
FYI - epidemic section on the History of Polio....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_polio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralytic_illness_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_Dimes
MonkeyPox continues to be a nuisance... some are asking for it be escalated in awareness... severity... what's the phrase... epidemic.. yeah...
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