I’m trying to think what was the last time a banner headline proclaimed big, good news that everyone could celebrate? MAN LANDS ON MOON? Do young people even know what good news looks like?
We went light speed from Obama’s Grant Park address to “we’re gonna work tirelessly to hamstring the black man and insure that he’s a one term president” and that was before MAGA.
Kinda opens your eyes to how racist people around you are. The people who swear they want to bring people together just keep driving the biggest wedges they can find, then blame Obama. I just can't with these people after this election cycle. I'm still hopeful for our country. 💪💙
I guess you could make a case for BIN LADEN DEAD as such a headline but the fact that by that point half the country would never give Obama credit for anything kind of muted the response.
Bin Laden wasn't exactly the threat to the average American that Polio was in the 30s, nor would I say that America extrajudicially executing someone on foreign soil is as inspiring to the human spirit as a man walking on the surface of the moon for the first time was
Good news these days have been so lackluster tbh.
Any good news I see online is just “this animal was saved by nice human recently” or “scientists figured out thing that can help with issue we’re dealing with rn” and that report is never updated on ever again.
I get appreciating the little things in life but it’s kind of hard to not feel like good news lately has been not up to par when all bad news that’s going around is “millions of people are struggling to live on this planet right now and our governments refuse to do anything”
Sucks how the equivalent to the moon landing in modern day is just “big website we all know and love is diving into doing stuff with AI” like great, that’s the best we’re offering as human technology evolving?
The OP is from a time when, I would argue, most of the society apparently believed in a common cause and a narrative about progress towards the good of all humanity. Nowadays we're way more cynical, but for a good reason. We could have 'nice things' if not for the greed of those in power.
I was thinking when marriage equality was enacted, but that was probably not greeted as good news by a significant minority of the country. But it was a GREAT day for most of us.
Well I know somebody that's not going to get a vaccine and Polio is pretty horrible and debilitating FDR knows about that. And guess who else might know about that and hopefully he hasn't got vaccinated for it and that's RFK Jr and may he receive the most painful debilitating disease that's fatal.
Wait, I thought scourges like smallpox and polio have disappeared all on their own (or maybe because thoughts and prayers). Vaccines couldn't have possibly have had anything to do with it because they are all just Big Pharma hoaxes, right?
Careful, don't give them any ideas. We're probably not as far away from some lunatic stealing smallpox to cleanse the earth of 'sinners' as we might hope.
My dad's wasn't as bad until he was older and the limp with arthritis setting in then Parkinson hit. He still went out and played catch with us and we always took terrific walks. A good man.
If only greedy companies didn't use the pandemic to nickel and dime people as well as Fucking big babies who couldn't wear a mask. As well as stay in. We'd have Covid gone as a headline. Instead its a new fucking normal
I’ll bet that Republican Congressman are buying Pharmaceutical stocks to enrich themselves off their attempts to bring back Polio and other diseases 😡🤬
I'm From PITTSBURGH And So Was This Assistant Of Dr Jonas Salk.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States,[2]
After working for a time as a lab assistant with Dr. Jonas Salk on the polio research team,[4] Wade began to pursue a recording career, signing with Coed Records in late 1959.
My grandmother walked with a limp most of her life. When she died at age 97, we discovered that one leg was 3 inches shorter than the other, and she’d never told us. Her baby sister said, “oh, yes, she had polio when she was 2.” And even my mom said wtf.
my mom who had family members & friends contract polio once took me to meet a man in an iron lung who painted greeting cards with his mouth, she stressed how important vaccines were, that this poor man contracted polio months before the vaccine was available, he lived 27yrs in that machine
Polio conquered except for in Gaza where it reappears and Israel bombs polio clinics as they're underway. As some mothers said, why vaccine our kids against polio when you're going to kill them anyway.
Stay positive…. We’ll get to do this again in colour once we erm… eradicate it again after rfk goes. Do not read extensively about RFK Jr though that may kill positivity
Heartbreaking. I do genealogy and have run across so many death records of babies and small children from the early 20th century. Too many people today don't understand what a privilege it is to have access to vaccines and grow up without fear of dying a horrible death from preventable diseases.
My great grandmother gave the same name to two babies that died one afteranother, and when the next one was born the priest said "don't give her this name, or she'll die too." So she named the girl something else and she survived. (Don't know the cause of death though)
There were so many causes of death of children back then.
Found this out from the Holland archives, wondered why so many had the same first name, then looked at the dates. It's the hardest thing to lose a child, yet almost everyone experienced it before vaccines & public health measures.
Oh, that's so sad! It was very rare for a family to have all of their children survive. My grandmother had a baby brother die in her arms when she was a teenager. But let's go back, right?
Tragic. My husband has also seen how these diseases took the lives of ancestors. The irony is that people have become blasé because vaccines actually save lives and this increasingly taken for granted.
Yup! A lack of education, I guess, and the fact that as time goes on people forget the lessons of the past. Same with fascism, the Holocaust, women dying from back-alley abortions, etc. It's amazing what people are willing to accept these days, because they apparently don't know any better.
I used to work in genealogy and I don't think modern humans have any idea how often children used to die from disease.
I once had to transcribe a parish priest's account of a cholera outbreak. It was heartbreaking. Then the handwriting changed mid-volume, for the priest himself had died...
I agree with you. I didn't really appreciate how bad it was, and how recent, until I started looking through these records. Today people just take vaccines for granted without realizing just how terrible and deadly the diseases they prevent really were.
Oh, how tragic! I don't know how these mothers were able to bear it. And of course the public didn't even have access to antibiotics until after WWII (not sure if those early ones could treat whooping cough, anyway). Maybe RFK Jr. will take that away, too! Make America Healthy Again, my ass.
I lost my first son due to SIDS in the 90s and the same grandmother lost her youngest so the same year ..I still don't know how she live for 80some off years
Nope antibiotics won't I don't think either unfortunately
Measles mumps tetanus 🥺 so many people will die of stupid crap
Oh, yes - no one was spared. The lack of antibiotics, ignorance about sanitation, and unsafe working conditions didn't help, either. I've seen plenty of men in the genealogical records on their second or third wife because the previous ones died in childbirth. It was a hard life.
my second last tweet... Idiocracy. My last was an eff bomb at elon. He will push for longer work weeks. He already brags how he sleeps at work. The class war is beginning. Project 2025 is nothing more . Any cuts he makes will end up in his pockets. 50% of the electorate are not serious people
Oh yeah. Musk & Friends want a new Gilded Age where they can fill their pockets and abuse the hell out of everyone else. They are even rolling back child labor laws in some states, which is just unbelievable. No, not serious people but their vote is just as good as yours or mine. Scary
Yep i said it the day he was official Nov 09 vs HRC i felt his rhetoric was so similar to Hitler, them to the Nazis that slaughtered my family. And i am afraid now. For the entire world. If Putin owns him we become the bad guys at none of our fault.
I still remember my parents taking us down to the HS to stand in line to get the polo vaccine. Parents in our neighborhood constantly worried about polo. In college I met a student who contacted polo shortly after the vaccine came out because her parents were afraid of it. And here we are again
My mother’s 16 year old brother died from polio. I can’t believe they got the MAGA crowd to believe going back to dying from preventable diseases is a good idea.
The first thing fascists do is target experts, like Trump did with Fauci. They feel threatened by experts, hence the cabinet of idiots being assembled now.
Everything is a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works . My concern is that they will make it difficult for those of us that possess critical thinking skills to continue to be immunized.
I don’t hate anti-vaxxers. If they want polio, they have a right to it. I just don’t want my tax dollars going to help pay for the ambulances, iron lungs, hospitals, doctors, nurses, physical therapists, crutches and leg braces they’ll require - and those of anyone else they infect… if they live.
The next 8 years is going to be intellectual Darwinism in action. Those vaccinated and those unvaccinated, it’ll be the less educated who will suffer. Believe me, there’ll be many disingenuous MAGA clan covertly getting vaccinated - so not a 100% eradication.
I imagined polio fleeing like a saturday morning cartoon villain back to its layer to form a plan for next week's episode...hmm...maybe something with a brain worm and brain washing. Wakefield! I need you!
1955 I had not realized. These vaccines have saved multitudes. The ones from childhood and added since. Covid included. I’m weary of the misinformed, the far-right anti-vaxxers.
Polio has been under control for almost 70 years now, and now RFK jr wants to end the polio vaccine mandates, this is reprehensible,RFK jr needs to be voted down by the Senate
When I think of the ginormous sums of money digested by politics these days and then think what our headlines COULD read if that $$$ had been used differently....
My aunt had polio, partially paralyzed one side. She quit school because she was bullied, never married. I never realized her role. She was a caretaker for dying people at their homes. She was one of many pre-hospice care workers. She was lucky, though. She lived. I trust Science, not RFK, jr.
There was a couple, Bill and Margaret (Flynn) Doctorman, who were pretty big fixtures in my town for decades.
They did so much cool stuff-but when they married here in 1955, they literally made at least national news bc both of them were reliant on wheelchairs.
I remember standing in line for our polio vax in the early '60's, with my parents, who were actually giddy over getting their children protected from a disease that killed my father's cousin.
I'm old enough to remember when the vaccine was introduced and my mother's relief that another childhood killer was going to be eradicated. If we felt ill during summer, an early sign of polio was to see if we could sit and rest our forehead on pulled up knees.
The relief when we could!
Except the anti vaxxers are vaxed against polio. It won't be them suffering, it'll be their kids who get no say
And eventually all of us when polio, due to having a plethora of new victims, mutates a way to bypass the existing vaccine, undoing literally everything
Just let this sink in.. In a pandemic, from whom would you like to have advice? From Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Jadad, physician, epidemiologist, philosopher, or a manager without medical background. Ontario, Canada. Selected the manager.
USA just voted to die younger. Trump is going to destroy Obama Care. Life expectancy, the best reason to have a publicly funded healthcare system. It is clear that there's no justification for private care other than greed or incompetence.
Sadly those, like my brother, who actuall got polio and survived now in his early 70s is suffering from Post-polio syndrome which is a condition that causes gradual muscle weakness and muscle atrophy (loss) that can affect people who've had polio.
Me with the flu in 2027 after vaccines have been banned, on the way to cough on the drop-off line at the Montesorri school (it ain't much but it's honest work)
70 years of progress and concern for people's health and survival is about to be undone by a syphilitic game show host and a guy with a parasite in his brain.
What do people expect from the minions of the Antichrist - “a person prophesied by the Bible to oppose Jesus Christ and falsely substitute themselves as a savior in Christ's place”.
My older brother contracted polio when he was three. He survived it lost muscle mass and control of his right arm and hand.
I his 70’s now and has a recurrence of issues from polio. It never goes away.
I remember lines of kids waiting for the sugar cube vaccine.
Relived parents after vaccinated
Just to insert some Black History polio was eradicated and all vaccines were successful because of the DNA of Henrietta Lacks which is used til this day. She was never compensated and her children are in the middle of litigation to be compensated for what their mother was denied.
They settled their suit against Thermo Fisher Scientific for an undisclosed amount. I'm glad they seem pleased with that outcome. I'm glad they are going after other biotech companies who profited without consent as well. Let them make a clean sweep.
O Yaay, yes they need to go after the biotech companies as well and hopefully they invest in the HBCUs science programs somehow. Just imagine what today would look like if Polio, Covid had not been controllable… let alone HIV, cancer research.. it’s crazy to think about
McConnell lived because of the kindness and handouts of others. Socialism saved Mitch. Which is ironic because of the number of times he tried to pull Obamacare and the ACA.
My dad had Polio as a child, passed of lung cancer end of 22, was his bday last Wednesday. Polio was rough for many people, he was lucky enough to only have one leg affected but it slowly destroyed the rest of his body over time.
I’m old enough to remember dozens of people (most often at church) who needed braces and canes to walk because they had polio as a kid. Almost none of them were kind, which I have to think came with all the pain and hardship they faced every day.
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Any good news I see online is just “this animal was saved by nice human recently” or “scientists figured out thing that can help with issue we’re dealing with rn” and that report is never updated on ever again.
but they can spot a good TikTok product incentive from a mile away
and the next DAY the shitheads were saying things like "WOW Obama said 'I' too much in that speech...does he think HE shot bin Laden????"
Siri: how will the coming steel tariffs squeeze iron lung manufacturers’ bottom lines?
Siri: FACK!
Gods way of draining that swamp!
Measles: hold my beer.
Polio 2: electric boogaloo
Sadly that friendship ended when he loudly opined, while in line for the bus, that someone should assassinate President Obama.
Done. Right there. Walked away and never spoke to him again.
Great and informative read, a Pulitzer win.
Was stunned by what I learned, FDR, Salk, Sabin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpzndx1EwdQ
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States,[2]
After working for a time as a lab assistant with Dr. Jonas Salk on the polio research team,[4] Wade began to pursue a recording career, signing with Coed Records in late 1959.
We just detoxed all of the Covid drunks and we’re now faced with another epidemic!
I should buy stock in 1800 tequila because I’m gonna buy lots.
Goodbye to all that.
Found this out from the Holland archives, wondered why so many had the same first name, then looked at the dates. It's the hardest thing to lose a child, yet almost everyone experienced it before vaccines & public health measures.
In some cultures they don't name a baby until it's 1 year old for that reason.
I once had to transcribe a parish priest's account of a cholera outbreak. It was heartbreaking. Then the handwriting changed mid-volume, for the priest himself had died...
The cholera story - wow. That's horrific.
Nope antibiotics won't I don't think either unfortunately
Measles mumps tetanus 🥺 so many people will die of stupid crap
Mar A Lago
Billionaires
Pool games:
Marco Polio
#MarcoPolio
- One dip shit wanted to buy Greenland
- One wacko thinks Jewish space lasers are causing forest fires
- One gives handjobs in theaters
- One thinks con trails poison people
Idiocracy is a documentary
No way will it be from gigantic and overwhelming influx of population
Sigh.
They did so much cool stuff-but when they married here in 1955, they literally made at least national news bc both of them were reliant on wheelchairs.
The relief when we could!
And eventually all of us when polio, due to having a plethora of new victims, mutates a way to bypass the existing vaccine, undoing literally everything
I his 70’s now and has a recurrence of issues from polio. It never goes away.
I remember lines of kids waiting for the sugar cube vaccine.
Relived parents after vaccinated
https://eu.jacksonville.com/story/news/reason/2017/07/22/fact-check-did-us-pay-mcconnell-s-polio-treatment/15362788007/