Bliss by Harry Bliss for January 11, 2022

Yup, nothing like being stuck in an iron lung.

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?)

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.

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

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)!

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?

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

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.

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

Forty years from now, ahh Covid…

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.

My generation beat Polio.

Our parents had no problem with us being inoculated.

I got most of my childhood inoculations in school.

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/

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

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

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

Where are the comments from yesterday?

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

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.