Thread by @Gurdur

1/n And now, the kicker. Want to reduce polio death rates by up to 90% WITH THIS EASY TRICK?
Just make sure your children drink water contaminated with sewage from the minute they're born. Eventually, polio will become endemic again, everyone exposed.

https://twitter.com/Gurdur/status/1474358399102038024

2/n This thread follows on from my old thread, linked below. And it's true; if children drink water contaminated with sewage, in a place where polio exists, death rates will fall by up to 90%, because they'll all have polio before they're 5 years of age

https://twitter.com/Gurdur/status/1474385439792504832

3/n That must appeal to all antivaxxers out there, & those who worship the economy to the point of refusing taxes for new sewage systems.
Just a small drawback: typhoid, typhus, cholera, shigella, amoebiasis, E. coli O157:H7 will all kill FAR more children

https://twitter.com/Gurdur/status/1474388149019328519

4/n
— Change the environment, & diseases may well change.
— Everything's trade-offs; almost eliminate cholera, typhoid & more, & suddenly you've polio jumping down your throat.
— You're a creature of habit; you've never had to worry about typhoid, & you're vaxxed against polio

5/n Antivaxxers are also creatures of habit. They've been taught polio was really bad (which it is), they're vaxxed against it, so they've never thought about it, or the costs in eradicating polio.

6/ Had Twitter been around in 1955, you'd have had James Lindsay leading campaigns against polio vaccinations, Mike Yeadon claiming polio was just a cold, & lots (falsely) pointing out you only died from polio if you were malnourished, malnourishment being your fault of course.

7/ And you would have had the usual suspects of oncologists, surgeons & geneticists, all posing as epidemiologists, & even some real epidemiologists (hello, Sunetra Gupta) all busily pointing out polio was perfectly natural, & all you needed to do was drink sewage as an infant.

8/ And all of that before we even get to #polio vaccinations. The funniest thing I read the other day was a claim that polio vaccines were only introduced after long years of safety studies.
That is *light-years* from the truth. In fact, early attempts suffered from catastrophes

9/ After Christmas, I will do threads on the sheer disasters that initial polio vaccines were. And yet we overcame all that to do a globalist sorry I mean global :-p effort to eradicate polio, which is a damn good thing to do.

10/ First thread on one page: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1473922…
Second thread on one page: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1474007…
Third thread on one page: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1474358…
Fourth thread on one page: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1474371…
Fifth (this) thread on one page: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1474387…
Enjoy!

11/ Like I said. Polio was once a disease that *everyone* had had. Pretty much every human on the whole planet had had polio, pre-1860, and this would have been used as an 'argument' back in the 1950's against polio vaccines.

https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/1474200511545024522