constantly in a typing crisis

"There was covid! Lockdowns! Murder hornets! Eels on cocaine! Kanye brought a man back from the dead in hologram form! Trump went mad, told everyone to drink bleach and his lawyer attempted a military coup next door to a dildo store!"

*child nods trustingly*

"Also, vampires and unicorns and dragons hated vaccines and Taylor Swift had to fight Darth Vader to regain her sword and rule middle earth again."

what I bet you didn’t know about is something called Post-Polio Syndrome. it occurs in more than half of people who survive poliovirus, and it occurs decades later. year after people have lived through polio, years after they have “recovered,” they begin to struggle. they begin to decline. they experience pain and weakness and loss of function. they develop new disabilities, and see old disabilities worsen. and there is no cure, only management. 

That’s what happens post poliovirus. It happens bc poliovirus causes lifelong damage, the extent of which is only revealed decades later. We are among the first generations to grow up not knowing people who live with the longterm consequences of poliovirus.