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#polio 🇨🇦

A #wealthy disease

“#Epidemic” polio

#quarantine 1936

Best solution #serum didn’t work

Poor people could not afford treatment. Remember above - this was mostly a #middleclass problem 🧐

Resulting in “free” services to look at sick children - and treat them.

Health advice: most rigid #quarantine . As published in popular magazine #fear #TheHorizon

“Rigid adherence to regulations is required”. Debate amount doctors.

#ReEducation
NewsPapers forced to follow narrative “accurate information be available at all times”

#lockdown

Experts were #wrong!

Lots of #fearporn scared #mom . #TorontoStar (nothing changes)

Nasal spray the saviour

Thousands of interest for special spray… but

Loss of sense of smell from trial participants (permanent). Largely ineffective (19 polio in placebo; 11 in treatment)

#IronLung failure

Conflicts with the state and #mandated treatments. #KenneyMethod banned. Forced testing #SpinalTap (lumbar puncture)

#Polio was not an issue in 1938. #WW2 started in 1939.

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