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10-28-2014, 10:47 PM
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Iron Lungs
Here are some patients in iron lungs during the 1952 poliomyelitis outbreak.
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10-29-2014, 04:19 AM
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Re: Iron Lungs
If I can't whack off in the pod I'd rather be dead  |
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10-29-2014, 06:13 AM
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Re: Iron Lungs
Being trapped in a enclosed case would scare the living shit out of me. If I go to get on a roller coaster, the only thing that scares me is when they pull the bar/strap over you and you can't move... I think I'd be screwed back in those days.
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10-29-2014, 06:33 AM
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Re: Iron Lungs
Horray for modern cpap machines. It must have been awful trapped in a giant cylinder for the remainder of one's life all because of a fucking virus.   |
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10-29-2014, 09:27 AM
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Re: Iron Lungs
Apparently the polio outbreaks were real-life horror movies. Thank Salk & Sabin for the vaccines! |
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10-29-2014, 06:07 PM
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Re: Iron Lungs
If I'm not mistaken that photo was taken at Rancho Los Amigos Regional Rehabilitation Hospital in Downey, CA (it's world famous for rehabilitation and research of paraplegic injuries). I grew up near that place...it was where most, if not all, of the really severe polio patients were sent their for rehabilitation...in fact, a few polio patients still go there for regular rehabilitation. When I was a kid, we would tour Rancho and perform community service activities at the hospital. When I was young, there still one or two folks in the iron lungs. What an awful awful existence. I had several friends growing up whose mothers or fathers had lingering effects of the polio outbreak from the late 1940's...what a horrific disease. Too bad there are idiot moms out there who refuse to vaccinate their children. Perhaps if they had the opportunity that I did, and actually talk to someone in an iron lung, they'd quit fucking around and vaccinate the crap outta their kids.
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10-29-2014, 07:22 PM
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I remember now reading about that Downey facility on google before.  Do not get me started on those Darwin Award candidates known as anti-vaxxers. They're as stupid as the Young Earth Creationists. A friend now in her late sixties remembers her 3 year old neighbour dying from the measles (since the shot wasn't available/in wide use until '70 or so.)   |
