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   David August (davidaugust@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 13:59:54 JST David August

   Short memory.

   h/t @realcarlallen

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     Catherine is Horrified (catdragon@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 15:31:42 JST Catherine is Horrified

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     @davidaugust @realcarlallen my father suffered his entire life from the after effects of childhood polio. Scoliosis, atrophied calf muscles.
     Then when he got older he got post polio syndrome and polio related Parkinson’s.
     Pneumonia killed him , post polio caused more muscle atrophy and chronic respiratory failure .

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     RiaResists (riaresists@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 15:32:07 JST RiaResists

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     @davidaugust @terag1e @realcarlallen thank God for vaccines.

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     RiaResists (riaresists@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 15:32:08 JST RiaResists

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     @terag1e @davidaugust @realcarlallen my uncle came home from WWII where he was a hero fighter pilot only to end up in an iron lung from polio.
     It’s no joke.

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     David August (davidaugust@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 15:32:08 JST David August

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     @RiaResists @terag1e @realcarlallen Ouch, what a challenge that must have been. It is no joke, and I'm glad with vaccines we don't have to face that as he did.

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     terag1e (terag1e@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 15:32:09 JST terag1e

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     @davidaugust @realcarlallen If I could boost this a THOUSAND TIMES I would. I am a polio survivor as a kid. I knew too many that used these, and more that were not as fortunate as I in survival.

     It infuriates me to no end the total insanity of those not wishing to protect THEIR children by not getting vaccines and CAUSING even more susceptibility to dangerous diseases.

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     Phil Landmeier (shuttersparks@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 15:32:14 JST Phil Landmeier

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     • Abuela ?

     @maryeffrancis @davidaugust Yup, lived it, including the sugar cube and classmates in leg braces and crutches.

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     Abuela ? (maryeffrancis@masto.ai)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 15:32:15 JST Abuela ?

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     @davidaugust @realcarlallen My friend Gary died of polio. I was five, he was seven. He was the boy next door. I remember playing with him in the stream where he likely contracted it. I remember going to the community centre for the sugar cube at the local vaccination drive that followed. Those of us that lived through it need to tell our stories.

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     Lenora (faithinbones@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 15:34:23 JST Lenora

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     • Abuela ?

     @maryeffrancis @davidaugust @realcarlallen my mother’s oldest brother died of polio as a toddler. His parents held him in their arms while he struggled to breathe then watched him die. In 1927 there was nothing that could help him and no vaccines to prevent it

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     David August (davidaugust@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 15:34:23 JST David August

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     @FaithinBones @maryeffrancis @realcarlallen I’m sorry that happened. That was so familiar and hard for so many families.

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     Lenora (faithinbones@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 15:34:23 JST Lenora

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     • Abuela ?

     @davidaugust @maryeffrancis @realcarlallen I worry that the antivaxxers are going to be responsible for the comeback of polio in this country