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Fauci Says U.S. ‘Probably Would Still Have Polio’ If There Had Been As Much Misinformation As With Covid Vaccines Now
Forbes ^ | Jul 17, 2021 04:34pm EDT | Joe Walsh

Posted on 07/17/2021 2:02:47 PM PDT by conservative98

Amid sagging Covid-19 vaccination rates and stubborn levels of vaccine hesitancy, Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN on Saturday the United States’ successful campaigns to eradicate smallpox and polio in the last century wouldn’t have succeeded if those vaccines were subject to the same level of misinformation that currently surrounds coronavirus vaccines.

In an interview with CNN, Fauci warned that some unvaccinated adults have been exposed to false information, are often skeptical of objective Covid-19 data and frequently justify their decision not to get vaccinated with “things that are really just not true.”

After anchor Jim Acosta compared the situation to polio, the government’s top infectious disease expert offered a dire warning: Fauci said efforts to eliminate smallpox (which was eradicated worldwide over 40 years ago) and polio (which has been eliminated in almost every country) would have faltered under the current climate of misinformation.

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“If we had had the pushback for vaccines the way we're seeing on certain media, I don't think it would've been possible at all to not only eradicate smallpox, we probably would still have smallpox,” Fauci told Acosta, “and we probably would still have polio in this country if we had the kind of false information that's being spread now.”

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To: conservative98

How many have died from the polio vaccine?


61 posted on 07/17/2021 2:38:56 PM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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To: All

Considering all the problems he caused with his Aids medicine you’d think Fauci would show a little bit of humility


62 posted on 07/17/2021 2:40:40 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: syriacus

I lived through that as a young woman….it was barely mentioned.

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63 posted on 07/17/2021 2:41:44 PM PDT by Mears (.)
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To: conservative98

“Fauci Says U.S. ‘Probably Would Still Have Polio’ If There Had Been As Much Misinformation As With Covid Vaccines Now..”

That darn internet!


64 posted on 07/17/2021 2:42:15 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: conservative98
Ask yourself this: If you were in Fauci’s place and had gone back and forth with advice, contradicting yourself many times but now there was a vaccine that really could save everyone from some dreaded virus; Would you step aside and allow someone else the public had more trust in to work to get everyone vaccinated? Wouldn't you - for the sake of humanity - put everyone's health and safety before your ego?

This is a no-brainer. Fauci instead chooses to insult and demean those who distrust him.

65 posted on 07/17/2021 2:42:27 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: conservative98

Fauci is full of shit.

All vaccines have some risk, but the fear of getting polio was such that people felt it was worth the risk. They didn’t need the government to pressure them into it.

The fear of getting covid is just not that great. People don’t even know if they have it - that’s how “scary” it is. So smart people don’t think it is worth the risk.

People are smart - they can think for themselves - they don’t need a Fauci fear-mongering them into getting vaccinated.


66 posted on 07/17/2021 2:43:07 PM PDT by enumerated
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
to a disease that has a .05% death rate.

How does that work? 0.2% of all Americans died from COVID, so that's the floor of the death rate. There are many other causes of death, made premature from COVID. A lot of that was unnecessary but real. People argue that treatments would have greatly lowered the death rate. The atudy I read said 75% of death would have been avoided with better treatment.

So that's one way to get to your 0.05% (25% of 0.2%). But that still assumes that 100% of Americans were infected.

67 posted on 07/17/2021 2:46:09 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: conservative98

what a douche.


68 posted on 07/17/2021 2:47:31 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: conservative98

Yeah right shitnose, those were actual vaccines, not this poison you are foisting upon decent people after creating great fear.


69 posted on 07/17/2021 2:48:45 PM PDT by dforest (huh)
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Go pound sand, fraud!


70 posted on 07/17/2021 2:50:40 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: conservative98; All
Noting that I'm not a viccine expert, polio vaccine look like it at least has actual polio DNA in it.
Polio vaccine

On the other hand, I keep hearing things like "reprogrammed DNA" in connection with CV19 experimental “vaccines” in conjunction with the following somewhat disturbing articles.

On the brighter side in my non-medical opinion...

Corrections, insights welcome.

71 posted on 07/17/2021 2:51:44 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: frogjerk

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/


72 posted on 07/17/2021 2:53:16 PM PDT by BipolarBob (You may love gravity but gravity does not love you back.)
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To: conservative98
I was I was 33 years old with a daughter and a brother in hospitals with polio.

Even though we had fierce competition between conservatives and dims in those days, we did not have the public distrust of the medical profession that we have today.

I do not remember anyone like Fauci.

It was a different life.

For instance, I did not have to explain to my two daughters while eating at the breakfast table what they were talking about when they advertised cures for erectile dysfunction.

I often wonder how today's fathers handle that.

Big pharma has put greed above all other considerations.

However there is hope. The federal government has ruined every single thing it has touched: Primary school through the university system...grants, federal meddling creates corruption... Law enforcement, the court system...non of them have escaped the stain of federal government money corruption. Now we are seeing it in the medical profession, which has really become an industry rather than a profession the the past sense of the word.

Just maybe this, the fraudulent election and the recent accesses of the Department of Education will bring about the changes we need in government

73 posted on 07/17/2021 2:53:25 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: mylife

Probably? That boy knows Science!


74 posted on 07/17/2021 2:54:31 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Stupid man Bad.)
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To: bray

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/


75 posted on 07/17/2021 2:55:50 PM PDT by BipolarBob (You may love gravity but gravity does not love you back.)
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To: conservative98

And if Fauci had worked for Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union back in the day, he would have been a LEGITIMATE MILITARY TARGET.


76 posted on 07/17/2021 2:57:12 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: conservative98

Our government probably wasn’t as infested with lying, thieving, corrupt scum back then that they are now. Same for the media.

Nobody with a half a brain trusts them or anything they say these days.


77 posted on 07/17/2021 2:57:58 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: conservative98

If I remember...polio vaccine did not use mRNA. I also recall some people contracted polio from from the Sabin type of polio vaccine. Sabin used an attenuated live virus which can mutate into an infective virus.
The reason why there is pushback, dr. Fauci, is cause people know that the cdc, virologists, etc...really don’t have all the answers. Cause people don’t trust people spouting off with incomplete knowledge. Taking too long to recognize Spike protein toxicity, myocarditis didn’t help the governments credibility.
Maybe there would be less covid deaths and illness if we had sequestered the very vulnerable, pushed diagnosis and treatment, and developed a simple absolutely inactivated virus vaccine...rather than an untested in human mrna vaccine.
Not trusting the World Health org...and the chicoms might have been a good idea also. Cutting of travel to and from China coulda’ been a good idea also. Ya think?


78 posted on 07/17/2021 2:58:10 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: conservative98
a brilliant, take-no-****, give-no-***** pede dwells among us! (i have no idea where this is, but i heart it, severely!)

Asterisks mine.

And I want one of these.

79 posted on 07/17/2021 2:59:34 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: conservative98

Would somebody suicide that mouth piece already!?!


80 posted on 07/17/2021 3:00:36 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it!)
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