My brother at nearly 15 was in that tube. Sad,I remember his cries of pain in his leg and hip. Having sores from not being turned. Reason mom and dad brought him home. Mom use to put the medicine called HEET on his leg. I swear that helped him get some of the feeling back.
Find unbelievable that people forgot how covid shut the country down and just when country is rebounding they voted for a possible repeat of these threats to health.
Yes! Let's hamstring and derail Trump by importing another pandemic! Sure, innocent people will die but that's the price of
progressivism! Get those sleeves rolled up.
unfortunately all it did was give the crazies survivorship bias and conspiracy theories, even in the face of a massive loss of life. there's not much hope for those people, reality just doesn't mean anything to them.
There's already a bunch of new viruses breaking out in China. I've seen a few videos showing packed hospitals. I know they're not the best in medical care, but I am not sure they have anything but hospitals, not was the west call Dr offices in private practice.
Why don't scriptwriters have any imagination these days? A few years ago they were introducing new villains like Covid-19, but now all they do is bring back the old ones.
My f-in-law spent six months in an iron lung and that was a few years after he came back from POW camp. Apparently there's not enough people left with living memories of polio or fascism to convince these clowns that both are bad.
The last man living in an iron lung died earlier this year. He contracted polio at 6 years old, and was paralyzed by the disease. He spent the rest of his life in an iron lung. His name is Paul Alexander. (1946-2024) They don't really make iron lungs anymore, or the parts required to maintain them.
The problem is that Americans never experienced fascism, nor have they really known war. US has not had a territorial war on over 150 years. You just need to experience your country being invaded (preferably by the US) to properly understand it.
Polio didn’t end with WW2. It ended with universal vax programs. But, yes, it used to be much more visible. I’m hoping that means prosthetics improved rather than many polio survivors died before their time or started using wheelchairs.
And why do they want to bring it back? It’s a rhetorical question but I’m just trying to see if people are catching on to what the billionaire class is actually up to.
Kennedy has convinced his magatt 'intelligencia' minions, that polio is just a game played on horseback with long sticks and a ball. And the British aristocracy plays polio all the time.... so it can't be that bad, can it?
I might sound cold, but I've changed a lot lately. Went from understanding and compassionate for all to vindictive and cruel for maga. So, if they die because they are antivaxxers, I don't care! It's good for the planet and the rest of humanity.
I didn’t realize polio was selective in its victims. That explains the folks in iron lungs and all those children wearing metal leg braces for life so many years ago. (I remember them). MAGA science must be able to be selective I guess. All hail the Great Orange God of our future.
Your irony is indeed quite amusing, but as a Rotarian who has been working to eradicate Polio worldwide for nearly 30 years, I cannot find humor in it 😪
And like Sarscov2, it had a pretty low fatality rate (<2%) and 70% of infections were asymptomatic. So I guess we don't really need to prevent it. It only affects the vulnerable. No need for the masses to worry about it. 🤦♀️
Back in the long ago times, the mafia in vegas would bankrupt their own casinos to collect on insurance money. they hired specialists to do that, because it's *that* difficult to bankrupt a casino.
I came to read the comments because I too recognized the sarcasm of the post and thought the comments would be funny, but folk seem to think he meant it!
My uncle had polio that left his whole left side non-functioning. People easily forget how debilitating that disease was and still is. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
Exactly, I hope he’s recovered from his latest incidence of paralysis and a reporter can ask him if Kennedy will have his vote while proposing getting rid of the polio vaccine…
Umm... president Roosevelt had polio. He had to fake being able to walk and wear painful braces because THAT would have been a scandal for a president ffs. And then we end up here.
It certainly would be if he wasn’t t being sarcastic.
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Well, apparently not - in his latest interview Trump said he wouldn't actually be able to magically make prices come down. On the bright side, I'm pretty sure United Health and the rest of them won't be covering iron lungs, so at least they won't be an issue
Ooof, can't agree with you here. While the pronouns thing is a nuisance to this 50+ yo dude, who supports most for whoever they want to be, Polio is pretty damn deadly and debilitating.
During the rubella epidemic that raged in 1964 and 1965, 20,000 children were born with serious heart, hearing, and vision problems related to rubella exposure during pregnancy. Tens of thousands more families lost or terminated their pregnancies.
Just started typing a sentence about the moms who terminated polio babies being sent to for profit prisons and then sat there for a long minute disassociating
Nelson Peltz who credits himself with bringing Trump & Musk together griped about Black Panther (which made 1.3 billion) being woke when he tried to oust Iger from Disney
But the pedo pastors now have their representative in the white house, the congress and the supreme court: holey trinity established. Kids are in greater danger with those bible quoting perverts than with drag queen eyesores.
They don’t think it will happen to them. Their kids won’t be gunned down, they won’t be abused because of their sexuality, they wont need life saving abortions, they won’t be denied because of their skin color, and they won’t get polio.
Empathy is not part of their cult.
Only narcissism.
Yeah, except the Republic had fallen a long time previously to Nero so it’s not like people chose him. In our case, less than half the voters chose Grump and millions of fools didn’t bother to vote.
he was part of the dictatorship phase, not the monarchy period (yes i know its a distinction without a difference) (let me have this i took four years of latin for nothing)
So a crippling disease is more important than some stupid culture differences?
Hope your kids don't get Polio.
It not only deforms the body and gives a lufetime of pain, but you will be spending the rest of your income treating it.
However, if you are a true Nazi, maybe syanide would be an answer
Actually, The Acolyte starred an entirely non-white cast (front snd center were a black actress and Korean actor) and the racists bitched and moaned so much that Disney discontinued making season 2. Even though the show was kickass.
Oh should have heard the nonsense when Stacey Abrams appeared in Discovery (Star Trek). LOL Talked about pissed off people. Can never understand that though, ST has always been for more inclusive and exclusive.
While I do agree they hate women of any race (really) Moses Ingram probably got the worst of it. Her comments are still turned off 3 years later because of the racist attacks she got. I would even argue, the backlash to her character, is why you don’t have a new Obi Wan series. So while two things
Definitely not an idiot, but was triggered by this comment until I read the replies made by others. The post would have been 10x worse if he said Star Trek instead of Star Wars. Love Star Trek: Discovery featuring Sonequa Martin-Green.
As long as folks keep the right to get stuck if they want to, it IS a small price to pay. As the pronouns will still be used and Black Women will still be in Star Wars while many will be going bankrupt for CHOOSING to be exposed. Elon will have to redefine homelessness, again.
"If vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away. People ought to have choice, and that choice ought to be informed by the best information," he told NBC News last week.
My brother had polio at 13. He was in a wheelchair for 2 years, and his best friend who contracted it the same day died in an iron lung. It's nothing to joke around about. RFK's survival of the fittest theory is bull$#!+.
Kennedy is on steroids! It's easy to be ableist when your from American royalty and had everything handed to you despite your best efforts to screw it up with heroin and adultery!
yeah they also lobotomized rosemary and shoved her into a home when she suffered the same damn fate as most lobotomy patients, because she had been lobotomized. excuse me for not feeling for them so much
Oh yes. I worked with his enablers for years, just look at his current wife! He humiliated her and she says with him....for the prestige and door prizes.
The Kennedys did jack shit about him over Samoa because that wasn't well publicized enough to besmirch their name to enough people for them to care. Once he got too well known to ignore, THEN they said something.
Literally NOBODY would appoint that fucking lunatic to that position except the felonious rapist. This is the worst of times, except there are three and a half even more destructive years coming.
The terror of the 19th and early 20th century was Consumption (Tuberculosis). It was cured by penicillin and disappeared by 1950. When the USSR fell, Russia slacked off on TB and it came roaring back from the dead. Polio will do the same.
These diseases are vanishing from our collective memory because of vaccines. Nobody knows anyone who had polio (my mom did) or small pox, etc. Therefore, hey, not a problem!
A few years ago a friend from childhood died, he was crippled
by polio, his future drastically altered by a disease now virtual eradicated. This ignorant old moron will bring it back to wreck more lives. He is insane.
Lets give them a chance. We have no historical data to tell us what a polio outbreak could look like. We just have to trust our billionaire overlords have our best interests in mind. What could go wrong?
The BILLIONAIRES want all of us “not of their ELEVATED station in life”
TO DIE as quickly as possible. I’m 87 years with many of the age-related health issues. I haven’t gone around the Sun 87 years to die at the opinions of a fucking RACIST, ANTI-VAXXER
fucking rich SONS-OF-BITCHING CLOWNS !
What could go wrong — already did.
People think clever replies are the way to go. They aren’t demanding accountability or Science. Obama gave trump the playbook after TWO Ebola deaths. trump et al, tossed it.
#GetMad #StartBellowing It’s an uphill battle.
MSM still calling Fascists, “Conservatives.”
The US is about to return to the dark ages of preventable plague. I won’t be surprised if this lands you into travel bans. Sounds like the incoming nutbars want to inflict suffering an epic death tolls on your people. It’s a nightmare.
About a thousand Americans every week are, right now, dieing preventable deaths from COVID and 10s of thousands becoming disabled, every week. We're literally already there and it's being enabled by pretty much everyone on both sides.
As an immune compromised chronically ill person- it’s brutal. I’m always sayin don’t take your health for granted bc once it’s gone, you have no margin of error anymore between you and death and disability
I think they've gone full golden goose mode. "Screw bleeding them over a long period of time, let's wring all the cash out of them right now, then book it to a tropical island before they get their pitchforks."
Considering there are people insisting the Earth is FLAT....nothing surprises me. Sane people will likely be making sure ALL their vaccines as well as loved ones' vaccines are current to protect against the horrors these crazies will unleash.
They already inflicted epic death tolls during the pandemic. Trump spreading disinformation, encouraging super spreader events, preventing certain states from getting protective equipment. The Lancet reported that 40% of U.S. deaths wouldn't have happened if it weren't for the trump administration.
Well... the circus clown is surrounded himself with people dumber than he is and inviting dictators to his inauguration... I'm almost positive they're laughing their asses off at how stupid we are... 🗑️🔥🎪🤡🙄
Who's going to work and pay taxes...
Trump goes through money like Big Macs and you need poor people to keep money coming in.
Maybe Jr Eric and Ivanka can start cleaning rooms at their resorts.
Looks like they want to deplete the population. What'll they do when there's no-one left to look after their children, clean their homes, tend their gardens, deliver their groceries?
I'm pretty sure they want every movie to be 12 Angry Men but without all the woke... Just 12 angry dudes standing around complaining about shit they don't understand. Oh fuck you, put the pen down, you're not stealing.... Oh shit it's in preproduction already....
This just happened to me on a @repjackkimble.bsky.social post over there. I know his shtick, but got got—or wasn’t sure—about whether a commenter was in on the joke & continuing it, or legit offended… Came to the same conclusion as to the reason for my plight…
And, having just found that he was here—maybe it was me, but the search didn’t locate him—I have to see how he plays with we smart folk. (When I didn’t find him, I thought it was because he prolly gets few replies like this one over here, making it less fun for him.)
I thought it was a joke, then I thought it wasn't, and now I'm just trying to figure out whether op was serious joking because idk how to tell - if he's serious, my bff is the block button
It really is a small sacrifice, and that's what we all have to do for the next 4 years. Every single day a new fresh hell of small sacrifices will be laid out for us.
Trump - Oh yeah, but, um yeah, about those eggs. I can't make the price come down like I promised, cause you know that is very difficult, but I also don't care
Not just white people, but anyone in the US who has a different idea of what the public should look like. Most of these people have never met a trans person, let alone an immigrant who speaks only Spanish.
Almost every US city is blue bc people understand we’re all human, there is no ignorance about who they are. Why do they want to make some people subhuman?
The story goes something like this:
Illegal foreigners are colonizing America, and if we don’t hand over power to an unrepentant criminal rapist, and his oligarch friends, we won’t have a country anymore.
We did not get our country back. We always had it. We lost it when Trump, Elon, and Putin took control of our voting election. White people don't have it. Traitors DO!
It really is a nightmare, the lack of understanding that you can't keep buying clothing and tossing it away. It is interesting how they unravel clothing for reusing the thread. It's a hard job for very little pay & here we are... Spend, spend, spend.
When the priorities are eradicating pronouns, diversity, and pants for Minnie Mouse, but not polio—just say you care more about grievance than governance. 😤
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got to set our priorities
progressivism! Get those sleeves rolled up.
#WakeUpAmerica
They don't know what a disease is.
between R Kennedy bs
And don wanting to acquiesce….he (don) wants all children vaccinations gone
Not the iron lungs!!!
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it, those who do learn from history are condemned to watch others repeat it.
Regardless, it's still waaaaaay better than the bad place.
Kinda 'they/them' sounding to me.
but how do you eat them in an iron lung?
Fixed it.
It was his karma for bilking small businesses/ contractors who help build his casinos.
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Those issues are not even close to being equal.
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/nelson-peltz-disney-woke-marvel-black-panther-1235951056/
Empathy is not part of their cult.
Only narcissism.
Hope your kids don't get Polio.
It not only deforms the body and gives a lufetime of pain, but you will be spending the rest of your income treating it.
However, if you are a true Nazi, maybe syanide would be an answer
They’re upset because *Asian* women are in “Star Wars.”
Once your vaccinated your covered for life. Those who don’t will get it and leave this world early. Most likely 🚫MAGA and republicans.
Can’t say that doesn’t make me smile a little
Anyone have his number?
I'd like to see him F up RFK jr.
"If vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away. People ought to have choice, and that choice ought to be informed by the best information," he told NBC News last week.
All diseases we’ve eradicated Not just polio Polio is a 1st step
If he gets that…measles mumps rubella rubeola chickenpox will all be on steroids
That’s some ugly terrorizing painful death shit that could have been prevented by *integrity
Between the worm & that orange rouge (I said it—rouge not bronzer)
He’s off his damn rocker
His siblings & cousins need to come get his nutzo ass and seclude him on that island
by polio, his future drastically altered by a disease now virtual eradicated. This ignorant old moron will bring it back to wreck more lives. He is insane.
TO DIE as quickly as possible. I’m 87 years with many of the age-related health issues. I haven’t gone around the Sun 87 years to die at the opinions of a fucking RACIST, ANTI-VAXXER
fucking rich SONS-OF-BITCHING CLOWNS !
People think clever replies are the way to go. They aren’t demanding accountability or Science. Obama gave trump the playbook after TWO Ebola deaths. trump et al, tossed it.
#GetMad #StartBellowing It’s an uphill battle.
MSM still calling Fascists, “Conservatives.”
How the people can be brainwashed and refuse to listen. Maga is cult.
They laughed
Played golf
Checked on their investment portfolios
And counting money 💰
Trump goes through money like Big Macs and you need poor people to keep money coming in.
Maybe Jr Eric and Ivanka can start cleaning rooms at their resorts.
Or
Deplete
Or both?
Just wanted clarification
Bluesky allows parody accounts?
When they start that?
Maga are weak shleppers.
Illegal foreigners are colonizing America, and if we don’t hand over power to an unrepentant criminal rapist, and his oligarch friends, we won’t have a country anymore.
Fashion recyling.
"Everyone" is a fluid definition.
Bringing back Polio is more than a statement that sounds bad.
Wait, how do I cook? What’s that word? I’ll have to groceries. I’ll groceries later on for the tomatoes and 18th century airports.