Trump lies about "turning the corner" ....
Isnt COVID-19 much more easily treated now?
Arent we much closer to a number of effective vaccines?
What do you think turn the corner means? Making it disappear?
As we did with polio, right? Oh, wait.........
Your understanding of history is willfully ignorant.
We shut down all the places it seemed folks were likely to transmit polio, once we realized it was contangious.
The first polio epidemic in the US was in 1894. It was more than a decade before we learned it was contagious (because we were almost as ignorant then as you are now).
The next epidemic was in 1916. FDR got it in 1921.
The Iron Lung was invented in 1929 to help survivors of it.
57,628 polio cases were reported in the United States in 1952, more than 21,000 of them paralytic cases. This epidemic heightened parents’ fears of the disease and focused public awareness on the need for a vaccine.
When they did the trial of the Salk vaccine, they had more than a million kids testing it, in 1954-55, when they announced its success.
Then... Just a few weeks after the landmark press conference announcing success of the vaccine trials, an Idaho doctor reported a case of paralytic polio in a recently vaccinated girl. Over the next few weeks, similar reports trickled in to local health authorities. All involved a disturbing detail: paralysis began in the vaccinated arm, rather than in the legs as was more common.
It soon emerged that most of the cases of paralytic polio occurred in children inoculated with vaccine produced by Cutter Laboratories in California.
So, if you want to follow that path, Kid, much joy to you.
But while it was nowhere near as contagious as COVID-19 is, it struck kids more and it caused lifelong misery for a lot of folks who did not die.
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