#Polio

[yeoldenews]

Robert Moss was diagnosed with polio at the age of six, the year before he wrote this letter. He would spend the next nine years of his childhood in and out of hospitals.

He made a full recovery and was a decorated athlete in High School and College, as well as an Eagle Scout. After college, he became a junior high science teacher, while also coaching football, basketball and track.

During summer break from teaching in 1965, his childhood struggle with polio inspired him to spend the summer working at the Louisiana Lions Camp for Crippled Children. He went back the next summer and was hired as camp director.

Robert was the Executive Director of the Lions Camp for 41 years. Over his tenure he expanded the camp to include programs for children with pulmonary disorders, muscular dystrophy, diabetes and autism.

He assisted in programs to set up similar camps in Puerto Rico and Australia, as well as a camp for children with terminal illnesses in Texas.

The Lions Camp still operates and is 100% free of charge for all attendees.

(source: The Minden Herald, December 19, 1941.)

#dear santa #christmas #kids #1940s #history #polio #louisiana #the appealing to Jesus to intervene with Santa is some A+ child logic #it's like asking to speak to Santa's manager

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

We have done better. We are better.

#science #religion #science vs religion #religion vs science #polio #polio vaccine #moon landing #Apollo 11 #moon #atomic energy #religion is a mental illness

[uapbew2]

Women with paralyzed arms 2

#paralyzed arms #arthrogryposis #polio

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Governor-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt played Santa Claus to 150 children at the Beekman Street Hospital, December 20, 1928. He wasn't as wary of being photographed with his leg braces as he was when he became president.

Photo: Associated Press

#vintage New York #1920s #Franklin D. Roosevelt #FDR #polio #Christmas party #Dec. 20 #20 Dec. #children's Christmas party #vintage NYC

[henpeckedho]

Hi everyone. If you are in America, or near the American border on the east side of Canada, please get your polio booster if you can, or the polio vaccine if you didn't get it as a child.

Polio has been found in the NYC waste water.

Polio is more infectious than the alpha variant of covid was, and more infectious than the flu.

While 75-90% of people who contract it will not show symptoms, they are still contagious.

Polio causes a variety of symptoms like partial or compete paralysis, lifelong muscle pain and weakness, and/or viral meningitis.

There is no cure for polio. Only prevention and then management of the symptoms.

#polio #please get vaccinated #if they say you need a script lie and say you're visiting NYC #some people won't be able to afford it which is fucking atrocious #with just the childhood vaccine you have good protection #but your titer may be low and you don't realize it

[vintage-every-day]

Kids remote learning during a polio outbreak in the 1940s. Teachers read lessons over the radio.

#vintage #polio #daily life #1940s

[mapsontheweb]

The world is very close to eradicating polio. We've eradicated 2 out of 3 wild strains, and cases have fallen dramatically in the last decades.

by OurWorldInData

#maps #OurWorldInData #twsourced #polio

[welele]

#polio #cuerpo #w3

[kafkasapartment]

Polio research. A light is beginning to dawn. National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 1948. Herbert Bayer.

#posters #poster #graphic art #design #design grafico #design graphique #health #science #culture #vaccine #polio #Covid

[devman1950]

Beautiful Man

#wheelchair #disability #polio

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Republican low-iQanons want to make polio great again.

#polio #iron lung #Covid #republican assholes #maga morons #vaccine #anti-vaxxers #republican party

[23-pcd]

#poliomyelitis #polio #muletas

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

#vaccines #polio #measles #smallpox #diphtheria #meningococcal meningitis #haemophilus influenzae type B #pertussis #vaccine hesitancy #anti vaxxers #anti vax movement #antivaxers #COVID vaccine #anti vaccination #anti vaccine #science #medicine #religion is a mental illness #immunology

[uapbew2]

Women with paralyzed arms 1

#paralyzed arms #arthrogryposis #polio

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Sara Roosevelt, mother of the President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with an original poster made to raise awareness of polio, January 22, 1934. The poster was presented to her by its creator, Howard Chandler Christy.

Photo: Associated Press

#vintage New York #1930s #Sara Roosevelt #polio #Howard Chandler Christy #polio poster #Jan. 22 #22 Jan.

[adboy123456]

#short leg #polio #hot disabled guy #huge shoe lift #short leg leg polio one leg shorter than the other hot disabled guyhuge shoe lift raised shoe leg length discrepancy built up shoe