Polio During The Great Depression

Did you know that Polio was one of the worst things that happened during the Great Depression? I know this because it tore many families apart and it made people scared to go outside and socialize. While polio did teach us a lot about diseases, it also made us scared of features such as Covid 19. Polio is a serious disease that infects over 16,000 people per year during the Great Depression. There were many horrible things that happened during this time. The Great Depression was the worst stock market crash ever. It was the economic downturn of 1929. This depression affects everyone in the world. “It Started because of many factors such as the stock market crash of 1929, this crash happened because many people began to borrow money in order
Louis Fed.” The great depression sent many people homeless. Many people became homeless because of workers being laid off as businesses became out of business. Another reason people became homeless was because many banks could not keep up with all of the people trying to get their money, so they had no access to their money. Surprisingly, it also sent many upper class people into lower classes and were no longer classified as rich. This happened because many of their money making businesses became out of business. Or the stocks that they made lots of money from did not exist anymore.This depression lasted longer than anyone anticipated, it lasted over a decade. The Great Depression ended in 1941 in the middle of World War I. In order to get the economy back to normal, Roosevelt had to make a new deal which got many men and women back to their jobs and made many families no longer homeless. Polio was one of the many horrible things that happened during the Great Depression. Polio is a virus that can give you paralysis or even kill you, sadly 5% of people who have this virus get paralysis. It is very contagious and spreads from person to person or in less common case’s you can get it from your food, water and