This polio survivor is one of the last people who is locked inside iron lungs

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dr_richard_ew · 7 years ago · FIRST

But what about the Iron Butt?

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adramalech · 7 years ago

I'd rather be dead tbh. Doesn't look like I can even fap in that thing

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famousone · 7 years ago

Just shoot me instead.

guest · 7 years ago

Vaccinate your kids

silvermyth · 7 years ago

Lot of these people didn’t have access to vaccines. A woman who spent 60 years in one of these advocates for vaccination.

guest · 7 years ago

I think they mean for those antivaxxers. They might bring back Polio.

silvermyth · 7 years ago

I'm just adding information

mrscollector · 7 years ago

He is a lawyer and no client has every turned him down due to the iron lung. He is most proud of that. But now he is retired.

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pokethebear · 7 years ago

Do you stay in there for the rest of your life?

piratemouse · 7 years ago

Some were able to be out for brief period of time then back in but otherwise, yes.

silvermyth · 7 years ago

Some are getting a different treatment now