Paul Alexander, the last person on Earth living in an iron lung after surviving polio as a child, was just killed by covid. The shame of it. Nothing quite sums up the hegemonic project of covid normalization, and the total disregard for the lives of the vulnerable, like a polio survivor being killed by covid.
  • THIRD_WORLDIST
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    4 months ago

    so that's why none of the articles have mentioned why he died

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Oh shit they buried the lede on that one. Jesus christ.

  • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    omg I saw this like a week or so ago, about this person going to the hospital because of covid. Can't believe he died but also a completely expected outcome. RIP

    edit: by the way that article is wrong, he was not the last person in an iron lung. Martha Lillard I believe is now the last person alive in an iron lung.

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    4 months ago

    so-far yknow, with the plague rats trying to bring back polio too

    or do modern polio infections not lead to iron lungs anymore idk

    • wopazoo [he/him]M
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      4 months ago

      Ventilators are used instead of iron lungs nowadays.

  • barrbaric [he/him]M
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    4 months ago

    Expecting to see this in the MSM with the headline "Thanks to COVID, there are no more polio patients in iron lungs!"