What’s remarkable in light of the near-global coercive lockdown for COVID-19 is how the terrible and terrifying disease of polio was managed almost entirely by a private and voluntary system of health professionals, innovators, parental responsibility, localized caution, and individual volition and caution where needed.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-polio-pandemic-of-1949-52-no-closures-no-restrictions/
