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Polio/Vaccine Hesitancy?

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by QGator2414, Jul 21, 2022.

  1. RIP

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    Not really. The anti-vax movement is behind the resurgence of previously defeated diseases. Your COVID vax rants have nothing to do with this.
     
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    Me: God why have you forsaken us.
    GOD: I sent you a vaccine, but you can’t fix…..
     
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    thanks, I seriously needed a laugh today
     
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    A single polio case that could have a dozen explanations turns into a rant about Covid, vaxing, Biden, illegal immigrants, and a link to school shootings.

    And you wonder why other folks on this site mock this forum. the crazy is strong here.
     
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  6. QGator2414

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    This is just beyond wrong and disingenuous. The point of this thread was to show we have caused a reduction in vaccines by pushing shots the wrong way. You might disagree. But I have always been in support of vaccines. Even the Covid shot for the high risk groups when they first came out.

    Some of you have told yourselves I hold a different position than I do. That is propaganda working.
     
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  7. QGator2414

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    It could. Yet the major point is that we have far fewer kids receiving their vaccines. Now it is not all on the moronic public health response. But that is a major driver for this real problem.
     
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    The massive drop in childhood vaccinations has nothing to do with how we pushed out Covid shots? We will certainly disagree there.
     
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    Wait until Herschel gets this FBI briefing.
     
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  10. RIP

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    The "science alert" website misquotes the UNICEF position. I am shocked.

    edit: I misread the first sentence in the article posted by Q. The Science Alert website accurately represents the UNICEF report.
     
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    He actually helped develop the Polio vaccine before it was stolen by Fauci
     
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    The other forums on this site are dedicated to obsessing over teenage boy’s choices; I don’t think they have much room to mock others...
     
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    No. I posited that in the OP. I linked an article about the first case in decades and then posited that our response is a big reason why we have seen a drop in childhood vaccinations (there are certainly other reasons as well). I might be wrong. And of course there are other reasons the polio case could have happened.

    I should have titled the thread “Polio/Vaccine Hesitancy?”…which I have changed it to.

    Again. If you think coercing people to take the Covid shot. Especially young healthy people has not been a detriment to vaccines with good long standing track records…we will just disagree.
     
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    When should the people involved in this polio breakout have gotten their polio vaccines?
     
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  17. RIP

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    I think we are attributing the vaccine misinformation to opposite people/orgs and that's where this disconnect is.
     
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    Here we go, The real reason for this thread, Q talking about Covid.
     
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    I won’t comment on the deranged internet science opinions. But I do need to point out that the vaccine was pushed, created and approved under the TRUMP administration, not the “Dems,” and thus regardless how inconvenient that reality may be, it is an undeniable fact that even Gateway cannot disclaim.
     
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    And I am saying that people who have propagated against the Covid Vaccine have scared people from using vaccines. Anti-Vaxers are dangerous to the public health.
     
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