Each of us is trying to cope with what is happening not just to the U.S. but to the entire world one nation at a time. It's a difficult thing to do because nothing like this has ever happened before. I can remember the polio outbreak. But since it happened in 1952 I was only 4 years old and likely couldn't process all this at the time except people talked about this as it happened. At age 10 I met my next best friend when I gave my newspaper route to him but I didn't know he had had polio because he seemed totally normal. But, later on I found out that he had had polio and it was bad up until he was about 6 or 7 years old and he had to have leg braces and crutches to get around. But, his arms were very strong and he won the rope climb record in Junior high School where we went together and no one broke it for 25 years because he didn't use his legs at all in the rope climb only his arms. NO one else was strong enough to do that in Junior high for 25 years!
Today, we are dealing with many more people dying around the world than with Polio but in some ways it's the same thing except now it's mostly older people over 50 dying even though the first teenager died of it today or yesterday in Los Angeles.
We are all coping with this and you can see it in everyone's eyes that they wish all this was over yesterday but, it looks like it will last at least until June or through the summer the way it is presently going.
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In the United States, the 1952 polio epidemic was the worst outbreak in the nation's history, and is credited with heightening parents' fears of the disease and focusing public awareness on the need for a vaccine. Of the 57,628 cases reported that year 3,145 died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.
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