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Francis/Clare's avatar

So it disappeared by magic lol?

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Jo Waller's avatar

No it was not magic. It was the banning of DDT and the reclassification of the common and uncommon symptoms of polio 'Polio has common symptoms of detoxification such as fever, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, sore throat, stomach pain, headache, stiffness in the neck and limbs as well as sometimes acute paralysis (mostly in summer months when most spraying happened) and death, and was claimed by doctors to be one disease'

as other diseases

'In 1955, the year the Salk vaccine for polio was introduced, patients with symptoms of aseptic meningitis and coxsackie virus were no longer included in a diagnosis of polio. A concerted effect was also made to distinguish conditions such as acute flaccid paralysis, transverse myelitis, Reye’s syndrome, GBS and chronic fatigue syndrome that would have previously been labelled as polio. These changes made the vaccine appear effective against polio, although it wasn’t.'

Why do I bother writing and linking to posts if people just comment without reading them.

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Francis/Clare's avatar

I think you're insane.

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Landru's avatar

I think the first sentence revealed the illness : )

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Jo Waller's avatar

I think you're intimidated by anyone who can look at the evidence and draw different conclusions to the ones fed to us by pharma.

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Francis/Clare's avatar

I don't know how old you are, but when I was child some people with severe polio had to spend their lives in an iron lung. It horrified me. I think the last person to live his life in one died recently.

Before I started school we went down to a parking lot. We lined up and everyone got a sugarcube that had the liquid vaccine added. I only knew one person my age who had had polio. She was from the south and had one withered leg. She wore a brace and limped. Big pharma wasn't so big then. I refuse to get sucked into the anti-vax insanity. I'm not intimidated. I believe in vaccines. They have saved so many people from debilitating diseases or death. Our great president FDR couldn't walk ever again after contracting polio.

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Landru's avatar

One of my friends is the daughter of one of the team that created the vaccine. They never patented it wanting to eliminate the virus. They were heroes.

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Francis/Clare's avatar

Wonderful!

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Jo Waller's avatar

Much like Saint Sarah Gilbert who didn't want to patent the AZ jab but was set to make £22 million from it, it it hadn't bombed, from first producer advantage, is a hero. https://jowaller.substack.com/p/those-linking-climate-misinformation?utm_source=publication-search

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Jo Waller's avatar

Did they 'have to' spend their lives in an iron lung or wear braces causing muscles to atrophy and bones not develop properly. If the work of Elizabeth Kenny who used physical theory to cure the symptoms of polio had not been suppressed by the authorities maybe they didn't have to suffere like this after all.

I'm not saying that people don't get ill. Big pharma wasn't as big then, but it was still incredibly powerful.

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Francis/Clare's avatar

It's actually pretty offensive to suggest that if these polio victims had just tried some warm compresses they could have avoided a hellish lifetime. Without drugs to treat atrial fibrillation I would be dead by now. My husband would have been dead 15 years ago from lymphoma without newly invented drugs. Anyway, can't argue with cult members; it takes a whole intervention.

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FDR created a whole rehab center. I'm sure he tried every possible therapy.

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