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Of course we all know about polio. All we here nowadays is about how it's being eradicated in most countries and in the world. This documentary shows us how it was achieved. The gravity of the situation is understood here as it was a generation ago when I created havoc, ofocourse this shows only the American side of the story. But the initiatives created to so,be the problem has probably stayed in today in various social and health care endeavors especially in generating funds and getting a while population behind a programme. Also highlighted is ow the vaccine was produced and how the the inventors of the vaccine actually did it. Roosevelt belong affected by it was probably a big push which was needed to get polio recognised and luckily he chose the right man to spearhead the project when he became president. Good watch

When this documentary was made in 2009, no one had heard of COVID. No one who has lived through - what we hope to have been - the worst of the COVID epidemic will be able to watch this documentary without reflecting on how differently so much of the American public reacted to news of the first COVID vaccine from the way American parents reacted to the introduction of the Salk vaccine around 1950. COVID was more devastating, in this country, than polio had been, yet seven decades of denigrating science by politicians here took its toll.

I strongly recommend that everyone watch this documentary. But with a warning: there is a lot of newsreel footage of little children who were crippled by the disease. That is very difficult to watch. Sometimes I had to turn away my eyes.

But never my ears.

Nor should you.

My heartfelt thanks to those who produced this fine film.