Posted on 08/18/2022 10:33:10 AM PDT by lightman
A 20-year-old New York man was recently diagnosed with polio, which paralyzed his legs. Polio once crippled or killed many young people in the United States, but was essentially wiped out during the 1960s following development of a vaccine.
Because the New York man, who wasn’t vaccinated against polio, hadn’t recently traveled outside the country, it’s believed he became infected locally.
Moreover, poliovirus has been found in wastewater in Rockland County, N.Y., where the stricken man lives and in a nearby county. It also has been found in sewage in New York City, according to an opinion article in The Washington Post.
The article, written by Dr. Lena Wen, highlights concerns about a resurgence of polio and a drop-off in vaccination rates among children in the United States.
The New York State Health Department regards the polio case “as just the tip of the iceberg of much greater potential spread,” according to the article.
It notes most polio symptoms, which include fever, fatigue and diarrhea, are considered mild, and people often have no symptoms. With most doctors no longer looking for polio, it means cases could go unnoticed or attributed to other illnesses, according to Wen.
“The one diagnosed case severe enough to cause paralysis raises the concern that there could be dozens — even hundreds — of other infected people who could be unknowingly transmitting the virus to others,” Wen wrote.
Wen noted polio vaccine is considered 99% or more effective at preventing paralysis from polio. The disease was considered eradicated in the United States when 80% of the population had developed immunity, she wrote.
But vaccination rates for polio and other childhood vaccines have fallen, with the situation causing alarm among pediatricians and health officials around the country. The national vaccination rate for children entering kindergarten dropped by about one percentage point in 2020-2021 compared to the previous school year.
Some of the drop-off is attributed to disruptions to the health care system and medical appointments caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
But Wen writes, “I also worry about the insidious effect of vaccine disinformation and that backlash to covid restrictions has worsened trust in public health. Moreover, most parents of young children never experienced the terror of polio firsthand and might not appreciate the importance of preventing the disease.”
Pennsylvania has seen a decrease in polio vaccination rates for children entering kindergarten. The rate fell from 96.3% in 2019-2020 to 95.4% in 2020-2021, according to data from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
That equaled about 5,514 children who didn’t have four or more doses of polio vaccine, considered the full regimen.
According to the state figures, the total number of children entering kindergarten fell from 138,909 to 122,800. Pennsylvania allows students to enroll provisionally, meaning they are in the process of getting the needed vaccinations. That number was 4,635 in 2020-2021, up from about 3,000 the previous year.
The state denied enrollment to 136 students of kindergarten age in 2020-2021, up from 65 the previous year.
That was a time when we had trust in our institutions because they earned it. All squandered now. They couldn't convince me to put me out if I was on fire. Instead they would take my picture and claim I was another victim of sudden climate change.
I grew up in the 1950's and '60's. One of the kids I went to school with had polio, and had to wear braces on his legs. This was Eugene, Or., back when Eugene was one of the best places in the country to live and go to school. (as long as you didn't have hay fever)
I remember those times - when people in positions of trust were trustworthy.
When the 'best, brightest and most competent were moved into top slots ... rather than people with the most connections, weirdest sexual kinks or darkest pigmentation.
I can imagine. As a parent, seeing kids in iron lungs, unable to walk, etc...nightmare.
LOL, YOU had to go get another needle stick! (unless you got it in the sugar cube...:)
Putrid politics has replaced our trusted civil servants. That's what the Beltway bureaucrats and where's like Garland need to recognize. They had our trust and they pissed it away casually like it wasn't important, until they demand it back.
I remember getting the Sabin vaccine on a sugar cube at my elementary school. I think I may have also had a shot earlier. Yep, parents were frantic to get children vaccinated. A girl my age was paralyzed from the waist down due to polio and came to school in wheel chair, and later on braces and crutches. A terrifying time.
Only one reason
Illegal aliens
Now they pass everything off to universities so the universities get royalties on the patents for what used to be a public service for the good of the country. Then the universities kick it back to the politicians. You know, the big guys.
The problem with hiring low IQ incompetent unqualified people is they're often thin-skinned, defensive, and mean spirited. Which is why employment should only be based on competence. (And yes, there are blacks, sexual weirdos and woman who are totally competent and able to compete.) But those qualities should NOT add 'point' to a person's chances of promotion.
Most of the above thin-skinned attributes apply to top level DOJ and FBI thugs.
The problem with hiring low IQ incompetent unqualified people is they're often thin-skinned, defensive, and mean spirited. Which is why employment should only be based on competence. (And yes, there are blacks, sexual weirdos and woman who are totally competent and able to compete.) But those qualities should NOT add 'points' to a person's chances of promotion.
Most of the above thin-skinned attributes apply to top level DOJ and FBI thugs.
My Mother was one of those. We weren’t allowed to use the public pools.
Exactly!
That certainly explains Peter Strozk. He makes Forrest Gump seem MENSA material. And topping it off, most stupid people compensate by being kind hearted and decent. They know they are stupid. This bunch running things are text book Dunning - Kruger Effect case studies.
So much that made our county great - and a wonderful place to live and raise children - is gone.
Democrat ideas and privilege destroy everything they touch.
I’m happy you had a chance to grow up in the old sane American culture.
This is one more reason to peacefully divide the county so ‘white liberal elites’ and their pet victim groups can have their own fascist hellhole - and the rest of us can get back to having a country nice for all of us to live in. (and yes, decent people in all racial groups will choose to go with us... we offer the old America - the one that lived under the current Constitution. We just won’t have white democrat elites and their ginned up pets, their bias, their hatred for us and their corruption and favoritism.
The point is that there is ALWAYS operational risk in rushing anything. In the case of the covid shots, as I've said previously, the absence of a properly- controlled, clinical trial was a yellow flag. If people willingly took the shots, fully informed, I have no jurisdiction on people's utility curves...health decisions are VERY personal. I'd never call such people names.
I think the operational risks of the Salk vaccine have been wrung out of the system. Covid shots? well..
If you remove us who will they be? It is thru us they define their own nuanced superiority. Paradoxical huh?
So if I were an alien and wanted to know everything about you in one abduction, I'm going for the butt hole.
I wonder why her article was written as an opinion piece. Aren’t there enough facts and statistics that she could have included.
And he's mean spirited with elitist attitude written all over his face. Remember the clip of Strozk talking about being able to 'smell the people' who shop at Walmart? Apply his comments to 'Jews' and you'll see how deep his hatred runs - he could easily put conservative in boxcars to be murdered. He had no business being in law enforcement at a level where he can use State Power against his personal hatreds. The guy's a lowlife thug.
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