As an Indian, my contempt for (rich white) anti-vaxxers in the west is so deep I often cannot quite find the words to express my contempt.
I grew up seeing polio-disabled children and adults crawling over rubble and roads in India.
My father worked for the Pulse Polio program.
What is happening?
I grew up seeing polio-disabled children and adults crawling over rubble and roads in India.
My father worked for the Pulse Polio program.
What is happening?
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Lenore Palladino
POLIO?!
that was not on my 'worst case scenario' bingo card
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
that was not on my 'worst case scenario' bingo card
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
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Well, unless they're vaccinated.
I simply do not understand anti-vaxxers.
These guys are monsters
#middleeast
#vaccines
#polio
They want people to die off
White Republicans don't care about anyone but money control and power
Their white voters will also die off
Trump and his evil minions only care about themselves
Their ignorance is deadly & cruel.
They really are idiots.
With Trumps mass deportations who the hell is going to bury all those bodies caused by the inability to get a simple polio vaccine??
No women; I guess they were kept out of sight at home or didn't survive.
Good times to be living in a state that doesn't test ticks for lyme anymore because essentially all are positive.
$30 a tick test.
He gets ticked almost every day in the summer He's gotten Lyme twice. But $30 a tick?
Back to waiting on the vaccine
The ignorance and stupidity in the US is beyond belief. It is compounded by the corruption of those that have bent the knee to the oligarchs.
Was he born with a privileged immunity we don’t know about?
What a twerp!
He might have had measles vaccine - it's from 1963.
Good lord. If he can understand… why can’t these morons.
Sigh
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In a developed country the killed-virus version is safer & effective enough, & extra production & administration costs don't affect availability.
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Note too that vaccine-derived polio is *different from* the very rare cases of an immune-compromised person getting polio from their polio vaccine.
Vaccine-derived polio infects the unvaccinated. Vaccinated people don't get it.
(Is all super-complicated).
Wild polio is only in Afghanistan & Pakistan.
Virtually all the (few remaining) cases in Africa are vaccine-derived.
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I haven't read it in years, but it's based on when cases of wild virus polio, % of population who received the live virus and --other stuff. It's very math-driven.
I prefer to say that vaccines are far safer than other risks we routinely accept.
For me, the nuance is addressed by the panels of experts who recommend whether to approve or authorize them, & who should take them.
Examples follow:
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That said, I was an early adopter of spacing the 1st 2 covid shots more than 3wks apart for young males. So I'm not completely disagreeing w/ you.
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We MUST say it.
Because the vaccine community needs to make it obvious that the rewards greatly outweigh risks.
I've personally known people who wouldn't take the COVID vaccine because of G-B Syndrome because they *do not understand* the statistically miniscule risk.
Kennedy wants to change that.
It’s like holding two thoughts at a time is just too much for them.
I PRAY there IS a real Deep State, but I fear the only one is HIS.
He had polio as a child, and the vaccine helped him. However, he has lost his power and influence, and the new guard thinks they know it all.
What next? Freeing the Smallpox virus from the freezer?
#ElectVenalBastards
#GetPolio
#SmallpoxNext
I think Ebola at the RNC.
Dr. Oz is no accident.
Not one penny has been spent to fight this war.
You are all getting what you deserve.
I got that sugar cube in 1961
But we have been voting our greed since 1948. We deserve what happens next. It was predicted and preventable and not a single leader who understood could get us to listen and take the destruction of government by big business seriously.
We in the middle are.
Same thing applies to things like Musk's DOGE nonsense: those are American public workers that he wants to fire and American auto workers that he doesn't want to have employment rights. Dems need to shout about what's actually good for US
Sorry
He's abusing his family legacy and history with attention seeking. Jr. needs long term in-clinic psychiatric care. IGNORE his vile bile. He is not a doctor nor a scientist. He's a spoiled brat!
I share your contempt.
It’s really scary.
Have you wrote your Senator?
Have you called them?
Call your House GOP?
Kennedy was bought by Trump. He is unfit for office. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
Told mum about RFK and she was pretty aghast. तो वेडा आहे का?? ("Is he insane??") to which I could only say yes.
And refuse to accept that it's the vaccines keeping the disease away.
God help us all, but good luck getting anyone to answer that phone, we'll have to help ourselves.
Iron lungs sound like Darth Vader with asthma.
The vaccine was a society changer and only the very ignorant can say we don't need it now because there is very little polio!
Against that.
😮💨😠🤯🤬
This is what happens when the internet and social media gives stupid people a serious platform instead of letting them be mocked as cranks.
Every 80 years, this cycle starts back up again
There is a lot of superstition & distrust towards Western medicine by certain people who are reeling from the effects of colonialism, mixed in with extremist religious beliefs, lack of education etc. Not to mention some very sus incidents by companies & individuals trying to
they have gone insane with cruelty
Caveat: I'm not an American.
https://dnyuz.com/2024/12/13/kennedys-lawyer-has-asked-the-f-d-a-to-revoke-approval-of-the-polio-vaccine/
The internet is a major factor in the proliferation of their nonsense.
We allow a propaganda network to be called “news”, so we have to expect this insanity.
My contempt for these despicable vermin knows no bounds either.
if it's not right under our noses media will "Shining Happy People Holding Hands" it and we will NOT know what's going on until we're culled, and THAT'S what keeps me up at night.
As a Canadian - I Agree and Understand!
I want to spit!