Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "How Soviet Soda Machines Were Spreading Herd Immunity 😳 #ussr" video.

  1. Don't be too shocked. Here in Australia when I went to school in the 1950's and 1960's, every school had, out in the open grounds, a row of taps. If you were thirsty, you put your mouth under a tap and turned it on. Often in summer the water flow was weak, so we put our mouths around the tap to get every drop of water. Probably why tooth decay was rife back then. When they invented a vaccine for polio, all kids got the vaccine, then more shots for other diseases as they became available. A government nurse would turn up with three non-disposable syringes and a bottle of vaccine. All the kids in the school got injected with just those three syringes. Usually the nurse would recruit a couple of school girls to rinse the syringes with disinfectant and then with tap water and refill with vaccine before passing the syringe to the nurse to inject the next kid. Once in a while the girls would get a bit mixed up and some kid would be injected with disinfectant and start screaming with pain. Incidentally, polio spread rapidly in our schools until we got the vaccine. It turned out that polio is essentially a disease of the intestines and is passed by transfer by hands not washed properly after going to the toilet, but they didn't know that back then. In our schools in the 1950's the toilets had no hot water or soap or towels, so you couldn't wash your hands.
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