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Polio Is Making A Comeback
npr ^ | 11/15/2019

Posted on 11/17/2019 4:05:09 PM PST by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 11/17/2019 4:05:09 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: null and void

Off Camera: Maybe we should ping Null and Void....
2 posted on 11/17/2019 4:06:32 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

stop importing diseased foreigners in.

they wouldn’t let in diseased people when my family came over.


3 posted on 11/17/2019 4:07:41 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Your active disease list needs more diversification. Here, let me help you with that. We’ll send our diseased to Sanctuary Cities with public urination and defecation and let the fun begin.


4 posted on 11/17/2019 4:08:22 PM PST by BipolarBob (Bipolars have more fun. No we don't.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Heck, when most of my ancestors got here, people didn’t even know what caused diseases.


5 posted on 11/17/2019 4:10:06 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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"You have to keep vaccinating all the children so you won't have any paralyzed children," Noymer says, "But the more you vaccinate, the more live virus continues to circulate. And the minute you step off the treadmill, you get some paralyzed kids."

OK, maybe I'll be the first to say it. When do we get to step off the crazy train?

6 posted on 11/17/2019 4:11:45 PM PST by stormhill
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To: BenLurkin; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ..
Maybe...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

7 posted on 11/17/2019 4:12:22 PM PST by null and void (Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Thank you democrats for all the third and fourth world immigration,


8 posted on 11/17/2019 4:14:44 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: BipolarBob

Unless we wall-in those places, the infected will get out and spread the virus and disease throughout the country.


9 posted on 11/17/2019 4:17:29 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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“In places with poor sanitation,...”

Get your iron lungs ready California.


10 posted on 11/17/2019 4:18:12 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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“Polio” is a name given to a symptom of a couple enteroviruses. It’s the worst symptom (other than death) and occurs in the weakest immune systems. It’s flaccid paralysis.

In recent years, other, equally mild, enteroviruses have been capable of causing flaccid paralysis. Enteroviruses usually cause stomach upset, from mild to “stomach flu” symptoms, and pass through, leaving the child to return to complete health. Often a child’s only sysmptom from an enterovirus is fatigue or seeking out of sorts for a day. But lately there have been cases of kids vaccinated against polio still gettingflaccid paralysis from a different enterovirus for which there is no vaccine.

Stepping back from the protection of vaccines against some of the viruses, the big picture is to make sure the child receives enough vitamin d (and k or k foods) in order to protect the child from all possible viruses. The ones he catches will be milder if he isn’t deficient. He should be breastfed or fed some fermented foods and have access to playing in healthy dirt and sand, get sunshine and plenty of rest.

Think bigger than just depending on pharma.


11 posted on 11/17/2019 4:20:48 PM PST by Yaelle
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Therein lies the difference between using a “Killed” vaccine (the Salk vaccine) and a “Weakened” vaccine.

NOBODY is endangered by a Killed vaccine. There appear to be a large number of victims of the “weakened” product.

Whose bright idea was this, anyway?


12 posted on 11/17/2019 4:31:34 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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Let it flourish. Couldn’t happen to 2 better crap hole countries. Harder to blow stuff up in an iron lung.


13 posted on 11/17/2019 4:31:45 PM PST by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s hard to clean house when the world keeps flushing its toilet into your living room.


14 posted on 11/17/2019 4:31:57 PM PST by IronJack
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To: Bonemaker

“In places with poor sanitation,...”

Such as San Pelosishitsco.


15 posted on 11/17/2019 4:35:16 PM PST by Da Coyote (is)
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To: Bonemaker

The pic is a blast from my past. The idea of being in an “iron lung” terrified me as a kid. As I recall, the March of Dimes had little iron-lung ‘piggy banks’ where you could donate your dimes.

Salk’s vaccine (shots) came in when I was about 10. Sabin’s vaccine (oral on sugar cubes) came a year or two later. Remember having both. No one was taking any chances.


16 posted on 11/17/2019 5:02:27 PM PST by hanamizu
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We must be of the same era...late 40’s and into the early 50’s. Saturday movies news ran the polio and iron lung stuff. Scared the hell out of us.


17 posted on 11/17/2019 5:10:05 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Yaelle

all you say is true.

a few years ago, one of those enteroviruses came though colorado and killed several children; might have been EV-D68 ... at any rate, we both got very sick about that time with very strange symptoms, sort of flu-like but quite different, and we both got flaccid muscle symptoms from the waste down, and we’re both reasonably healthy ... that was REALLY scary to me ... nothing like this has been around before, so almost certainly this was imported by illiterate 3rd world peasants pouring through the border at that time ..


18 posted on 11/17/2019 5:23:58 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: hanamizu

We got the first polio vaccinations here in school in early 1950`s. 3 of us got polio from the shot.


19 posted on 11/17/2019 5:55:36 PM PST by bunkerhill7
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To: Secret Agent Man

Get those vaccines to everyone! No excuses!!


20 posted on 11/17/2019 5:56:40 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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