High school friend (1980-88) (middle school friend as well) had the uneven and hardly any calf muscle due to Polio. I’m not sure how she caught it. Her family is Jewish and, I vaguely recall, immigrated when she was little. From where, I dunno. I could ask her cousin who is a FB friend but… eww (my discomfort).
Oh, all my older siblings still have the small pox scar on their arms. By the time I started getting in line at school for shots there wasn’t any scarring stuff.
It isn’t here to read posts. It’s here to mindlessly paste boilerplate crap from some MAGAt newsletter.
Those are all fake diseases, made up by the lefty mainstream media, using actors who pretend to be dead.
In fairness, he’s right: those are, indeed, two of the greatest discoveries of human history.
We had a teacher when I was in high school who had had polio. She had a shriveled leg, but could walk adequately. Her first name was Blanche, and I remember the boys calling her “Branch.” Awful.
If you don’t want doctors controlling your healthcare, there’s always home-based hospice one could turn to instead.
I don’t know, dude… liquified kittens measured in CCs are a buzzkill for me. Sad Blender Stories by Persian Purree.
Come on, everyone knows you can determine the volume of a kitten by submerging it in water and measuring the displacement.
What kind of monster are you?
You didn’t subtract the volume of the sack.
I watched CNN interviewing a doctor who insisted the vaccines killed more people than Covid did. Jesus Fucking Christ.
Fucking lunatic. Why would any network put a mentally ill dangerous lunatic on the air?
Because people will watch it.
Good point. Bread and circuses.
They were not giving him “equal time” or anything like that. He was Exhibit A in a section detailing how loonie some of the anti-vaxxers were. The reporters dumped on him really hard.
The physician in question apparently is Rashid Buttar, an osteopathic doc who’s long been a stain on medical practice in North Carolina, investigated and previously sanctioned by his state medical board (which he described as a “rabid dog”). He’s been singled out for criticism in the past for “unconventional” cancer and autism treatments and has a long history of antivaccine advocacy.
That Buttar is practicing without restrictions (or at all) in N.C. reflects poorly on that state’s medical board.
Well sure, doctors and virologists and biologists and geneticists and epidemiologists say to get the vaccine, but the guy I sat behind in 10 grade biology until he flunked out on his way to a GED posted a facebook meme of Dr. Fauci with a photocopied Hitler mustache so now I don’t know what to believe.
Nitpick in the direction of fighting even more ignorance: Although he was diagnosed as having Polio, medical experts think that FDR symptoms were more consistent with Guillain–Barré syndrome.
You mean after the March of Dimes raised all that money, Salk and Sabin developed vaccines for the WRONG DISEASE?
Sheesh.
Worse than that, Guillain–Barré is actually one of the few actual legitimate bad side effects of a vaccine, occurring in about 1/million doses (although the 1976 swine flu vaccine may have had as many as 8.8 per million).
The 1976 swine flu scare: I remember lining up in the local school for that vaccine - given with a needleless gun.
And - the controversy that followed when it turned out that the swine flu wasn’t as serious as first thought. (“The vaccine killed more than the flu.” Really - people were saying that.) Maybe it is fortunate that most people don’t remember that program.