1/ New thread, from the old thread (below). What do you think the average denialist or antivaxxer would have made of polio today, if it came in a 'new' epidemic form (like it did from @ 1890)? The excuses to do absolutely nothing would come thick & fast.
https://twitter.com/Gurdur/status/1474002782034317322
2/ Taxes for a big global eradication? You know as well as I do what the usual denialists & antivaxxers would say.
"But it's always been around! It's everywhere! It's *endemic*!"
And you know what? They would have been right, even though wrong as excuse
"But it's always been around! It's everywhere! It's *endemic*!"
And you know what? They would have been right, even though wrong as excuse
https://twitter.com/Gurdur/status/1473995578786955267
3/ Universal vaccinations? Every denialist would scream, "But #polio only kills very few!"
And that was absolutely right, especially before 1920. Polio killed very very few. It crippled many more, but still "only a few".
Do you think the denialists really care about children?
And that was absolutely right, especially before 1920. Polio killed very very few. It crippled many more, but still "only a few".
Do you think the denialists really care about children?
4/ IFR. Here's a quick surprise for you: in only about 0.5% of ALL #polio cases, maybe much less pre-1900, did polio move into the central nervous system. Of that 0.5%, only a tiny fraction of children would die, and only a third at most of adults. **COVID_19 is deadlier.**
5/ W/ polio, we're talking about fractions of 0.5%. That's... tiny, till you have a large population, or if it's you personally. COVID_19 has an IFR of around 0.4% or higher, maybe already 3x the adult IFR of polio. Imagine what the denialists would say about that 'low' risk.
6/ So how come a truly endemic disease, one known by all humans everywhere, stopped being "endemic" (around 1900) and start hitting in big waves, #epidemicity, causing panic all over the USA (& eventual vaccines), and how does this fit in with the invention of the ICU?
and how could polio have a much lower death rate* with just THIS ONE EASY ORGANIC TRICK? Stay tuned to this channel!
{I'll continue later}
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*(spoiler: as long as you accept a *much* higher death rate from typhoid, shigella, amoebiasis etc.)
{I'll continue later}
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*(spoiler: as long as you accept a *much* higher death rate from typhoid, shigella, amoebiasis etc.)
https://twitter.com/Gurdur/status/1474021676685877256
As said, I'll continue this later, but do you really, *really* believe the denialists & antivaxxers are genuinely concerned for children? Thank heavens this lot weren't around in 1955, we'd still have lots of these...
https://twitter.com/Leftylockdowns1/status/1458217207662579712
New thread, continuing on from here:
https://twitter.com/Gurdur/status/1474359364895059968
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