Bliss by Harry Bliss for January 11, 2022

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 3 years ago

    Yup, nothing like being stuck in an iron lung.

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    blunebottle  almost 3 years ago

    My Dad got scarlet fever when he was an infant. They took him to the doctor, he was turning black and the doctor said there was nothing he could do for him. He forced a shot of brandy down his throat and sent them home. Dad recovered.

    (Guess what I went out and bought last year? Well, you never know, right?)

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    basilisk Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Well, yes. Polio was harder to transmit and usually asymptomatic. The chance of serious symptoms was drastically lower than for COVID. But people took it seriously. Today a third of Merkins are opposed to taking any sane measures to prevent transmission.

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    The Pro from Dover  almost 3 years ago

    When people did as they were asked because we were all out for the common good.

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    lsnrchrd.1 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Snowflake alert. Antivaxx nut jobs, skip right on past this ‘toon right now (protect your fee-fee’s even if it kills you — or you kill others)!

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    uniquename  almost 3 years ago

    I heard recently about a woman who got Covid, but was nervous about telling her boss (the owner of the restaurant) where she worked because her boss doesn’t believe Covid exists. How can you not even admit the disease exists?

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    rickmac1937 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Remember them well not a laughing matter,wear a mask it won’t kill you

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    Bill The Nuke  almost 3 years ago

    Unfortunately I work at a company where a large number of people refuse to get the vaccine for a variety of reasons. 36 people have tested positive since Christmas.

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    ChukLitl Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Most people don’t have any memory how bad it was, because we all got the vax & that stuff is gone.

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    MCProfessor  almost 3 years ago

    Forty years from now, ahh Covid…

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    willie_mctell  almost 3 years ago

    I’m old enough to have gone to school with a lot of kids who’d had polio and seen lots of adults who’d had it. In my small orbit everyone I knew was overjoyed by the vaccine. It killed the March of Dimes though.

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    My generation beat Polio.

    Our parents had no problem with us being inoculated.

    I got most of my childhood inoculations in school.

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    MTS1  almost 3 years ago

    Seriously? I usually like this comic What an obnoxious and thoughtless attempt at humor.! Not only did infants through adults die from Polio – Polio survivors are later stricken with the ills of Post Polio Syndrome which contributes to mobility decline and death. This is not just “old people” those even in their 20s/30s and younger born in countries where the vaccine was not available contracted Polio and not have PPS – Also, Polio is not completely eradicated – we just don’t see it in the US – SHAME ON YOU FOR THIS CARTOON! https://post-polio.org/

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    MTS1  almost 3 years ago

    Comics have been taken down for racism, this should be taken down for ableism

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    MTS1  almost 3 years ago

    This comic should be retracted https://post-polio.org/ #ABLEISM Polio is not something to joke about – would Bliss joke about MS?

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    Andylit Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Yes, they were. We had vaccines that actually generated immunity and prevented the person from catching the disease.

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    MTS1  almost 3 years ago

    Where are the comments from yesterday?

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    MTS1  almost 3 years ago

    Where are the other comments I entered? Why are they not posted?

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    kmacking  almost 3 years ago

    I had polio 64 years ago. People were getting vaccinated. Before I was old enough to get my last dose, I was in an iron lung and couldn’t walk. I appreciate the thought but the rhetoric isn’t all there. I now have a ventilator, power wheelchair and a tracheotomy.

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