[Question Liberal Authority]

“Flies spread polio??”

Polio (or "infantile paralysis") was the "global warming" of the 1940's. Except that it A) actually existed and B) was eventually curable.

When polio was finally cured, the anti-polio industry was in a tizzy. Instead of saying 'our work is done' and going home, they went after more nebulous targets. So the March Of Dimes started tackling 'birth defects'. Since there will never be an outright cure for all birth defects.

[Cheburashka]

Polio (or “infantile paralysis”) was the “global warming” of the 1940’s. Except that it A) actually existed and B) was eventually curable.

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Comparing polio to the global warming scam is quite incorrect. While a vaccine for polio was found in the 1950’s in the 1940’s it was a very real and present danger that could abruptly snuff out the life of a child or adult, there was no cure, and nothing that could be done to reliably prevent it(unlike, say, AIDS, which can be avoided with 99%+ success by avoiding certain sexual and drug abuse practices). Even in 2010 there is no cure for polio, a fact which puts anyone who has not been innoculated at risk.

Prior to the availability of the vaccine, summers(the time when polio was most likely to strike a victim) were a time of anxiety for parents, since little Johnny or Mary could be in perfect health today and dead in a two or three days. I personally know a person who lost a playmate in his childhood quite abruptly.

But even adults were at risk, since there was no way to know if you had been exposed to the virus and been rendered immune, or simply been lucky in your childhood and never exposed to the virus. Franklin Roosevelt was almost forty when he came down with polio.

Let me take the opportunity of this post to warn all its readers to make sure loved ones are vaccinated.