![This is the "Cutter Incident" in 1955. All those people in "iron lungs" got polio from the polio vaccine. Yet this is the photo they always use to promote the polio vaccine. [597x773 - 442KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/2rTlev.png){kind=link}
I'd rather die than having to live in that tube for the rest of my life.
I'd rather die than having to live in that tube for the rest of my life.
Seems like a pretty horrible existence, yeah.
Seems like a pretty horrible existence, yeah.
There's that one guy who did, and even he pretended to enjoy his life, you could tell he was miserable.
The Man in an Iron Lung (A Polio Survivor's Story) (youtube.com)
Paul Alexander, “The Man in the Iron Lung”, passed away on March 11th, 2024. After surviving polio as a child, he lived over 70 years inside of an iron lung.
There's that one guy who did, and even he pretended to enjoy his life, you could tell he was miserable.
[The Man in an Iron Lung (A Polio Survivor's Story)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5DOre3MFlw)
> Paul Alexander, “The Man in the Iron Lung”, passed away on March 11th, 2024. After surviving polio as a child, he lived over 70 years inside of an iron lung.
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