If you go into the woods today...

**SARGE** · 27th November 2008, 20:43

Originally Posted by Ixion

But polio and diptheria were a death sentence or worse than death. Eradicating them is one of the finest achievments of medicine in the last 50 years.

what about the Sex Change???

its helped Carver get laid more than once..

hows your ass by the way Carver?

**Ixion** · 27th November 2008, 20:45

Originally Posted by wbks

You never caught up with a good mate after he got polio? That sucks

The ones that went in the iron lungs just 'disappeared'. There were vast numbers of them , in long rows in the basement of Auckland Hospital -others too I assume.(I didn't know that at time, I was very young). The ones who survived with 'only' withered limbs, they 'came back' into society eventually, with crutches and calipers. . But not they ones who needed respirators (which is what an iron lung is, of course). We were kept strictly away from them, our parents were all so very terrifed we would catch it. Young peole can have no concept of how terrible and fearful a disease it was.

**Headbanger** · 27th November 2008, 20:47

Originally Posted by SARGE

'specially those clows with the baby in the dryer..

Damn those clows, damn them clows to hell.

**SARGE** · 27th November 2008, 20:50

Originally Posted by Headbanger

Damn those clows, damn them clows to hell.

yea.,. sorry man.. my spellchexor thrw a pisten rod last wek and im wateing on paarts x-jepan..

shud be about 6 weks..

**Headbanger** · 27th November 2008, 20:55

Originally Posted by SARGE

yea.,. sorry man.. my spellchexor thrw a pisten rod last wek and im wateing on paarts x-jepan..

shud be about 6 weks..

yeah well, Clows is humorous, English Nazi's are fucktards, just pretend I never tried to be the funny haha man.

**SARGE** · 27th November 2008, 20:57

Originally Posted by Headbanger

yeah well, Clows is humorous, English Nazi's are fucktards, just pretend I never tried to be the funny haha man.

clows scare me..

ya know ..the makeup..the big bells.. the Udders..

just wrong bro... wrong on so many levels..

**slofox** · 27th November 2008, 21:47

Originally Posted by Ixion

The ones that went in the iron lungs just 'disappeared'. There were vast numbers of them , in long rows in the basement of Auckland Hospital -others too I assume.(I didn't know that at time, I was very young). The ones who survived with 'only' withered limbs, they 'came back' into society eventually, with crutches and calipers. . But not they ones who needed respirators (which is what an iron lung is, of course). We were kept strictly away from them, our parents were all so very terrifed we would catch it. Young peole can have no concept of how terrible and fearful a disease it was.

I lived through that era as well Ixion - with many of the same memories as yourself...specially the iron lungs......we were all terrified of the whole thing...then along came the vaccine.......and we wuz all saved by the cavalry!

Diphtheria I remember less well cause I had my first ever jab against that when very young - I can still remember the old bastard who shoved the flamin' needle into my arm.....I woulda kicked his arse if I had been big enough - it hurt dammit! But I was only a wee kid. But there were stories to make ya hair curl about diphtheria.......your throat closed over and ya couldn't breathe and ya choked to death reeeeeeal slowwwwww or so we told each other. Scary stuff in them days.
And yes, we got measles and mumps and chicken pox etc etc as par for the course. I had 'em all at some time or other. Still remember English measles....got really bloody sick with that one. And the friggin' mumps too - lots of pain there.....the good old days huh!

**Swoop** · 27th November 2008, 21:56

Originally Posted by Headbanger

English Nazi's are fucktards

"I hate Illinois Nazi's".

**Mikkel** · 28th November 2008, 10:08

Originally Posted by Ixion

Eradicating them is one of the finest achievments of medicine in the last 50 years.

Was it only so. While it's being kept at bay it hasn't been eradicated as such - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis_eradication .
And I may be cynical, but I am quite confident that there would still exist a strain of smallpox (the only disease ever to be eradicated) out there - if not in the open then at least in a lab somewhere. Shit could still hit the fan, even more reason to enjoy our current respite.

We certainly should be thankful that we live in a part of the world where debilitating diseases like these are extremely rare even in the worst circumstances. I recall getting various vaccines at the age of 4 in the form of infused sugar cubes.

**noobi** · 28th November 2008, 10:33

And I may be cynical, but I am quite confident that there would still exist a strain of smallpox (the only disease ever to be eradicated) out there - if not in the open then at least in a lab somewhere.

you would be correct

all known stocks of smallpox were destroyed or transferred to one of two WHO reference laboratories; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States and the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR in Koltsovo, Russia where a regiment of troops guard it.[

when will we learn, this stuff never stays locked up