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Message: [QUOTE="Dokey, post: 4012947, member: 9636"] When the polio vaccine became available, my mom rushed me to the Doc Woodward’s office for shots. Weeks later the line was hundreds of kids long at my junior high as the vaccine was administered to every kid. Of course, Colorado was a polio hot spot. The movie theater removed aisle seats to accommodate wheelchairs. I would visit friends who spent at least the evening in an iron lung, if not 24/7, usually set up in living room as it was too difficult to get the machine into bedrooms in our modest homes. My smallpox vaccine scar has faded with the passage of time. My kid didn’t need one because everyone in my generation did. We beat polio, we beat smallpox. We can beat Covid, yet it more than lingers because so many refuse to do what we did for polio and smallpox. [/QUOTE]