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Originally Posted by Tmarkwald
Polio paralyzed the nation in the early parts of the 20th century, yet it killed less than 5% of the Covid-19 deaths.
The deadly polio epidemic and why it matters for coronavirus
I just have a hard time imagining someone wandering around NYC in the middle of the Polio epidemic yelling ' I refuse to be protected ' ..... when there is a preventative vaccine available.
Unbelievable
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Believable. A lot of people here are making comparisons to the polio vaccine. The big difference is that by the time the polio vaccine was administered to the general public, it was NOT an experimental unapproved vaccine, like the Covid vaccines most certainly are. And there were no lingering concerns about potential deadly long term side effects like ADE which may or may not present with Covid vaccines (discussed here earlier).
From your link: "In 1954, the March of Dimes organized a national field trial of 1.8 million schoolchildren, the largest medical study in history. The data was processed and on April 12, 1955,
six years from when Salk began his research, the Salk polio vaccine was declared “safe and effective.”
Refusal or indecision about the Covid vaccine may be a lot of things, but stupid it ain't (a reference to your previous posts citing "stupidity"). Not yet anyway. I have to question whether the people who make those kinds of judgments really know all they need to know before making such criticisms. And some people say that people who make uninformed criticisms are "stupid." I wouldn't say they're stupid, of course, and I'm not saying you are.