Friday, January 1, 2010
9:57 PM
Polio Vaccines
This is how the polio vaccine was administered when I was a kid. They would pour the bitter medicine onto a sugar cube and have us chew it up. That made it a little more palatable but medicine is medicine so it still wasn't pleasant.
I'm not convinced we needed this vaccine anyway. I have a theory about polio. I don't think Jonas Salk investigated it thoroughly enough. Have you seen the crappy shoes that people wore back in his day? Yeah. I don't think people were crippled because of disease. I think it was an epidemic brought about by inferior footwear. Chances are, polio was nothing that the right pair of Nike's couldn't have cured. But then again, there's really very little that a good, name-brand pair of shoes cannot make better. I'm just sayin'. LOLOL
*Maddie does not really believe that polio was caused by bad shoes though she's sure the crappy ones didn't help. LOL