On polio, iron lungs, ventilators and respirators

Laurie Allee • 31 August 2023

Someone I loved a lot had polio as a kid. She spent months in an iron lung, a year in a full-body cast, walked on crutches for life, was housebound with post-polio syndrome for three years and then died on a ventilator at the height of the pandemic.


You babies bitch about masks.


© 2023 Laurie Allee.

Cartoon (30 Nov 2021): Ben Jennings on the return of compulsory masks.