It's dispiriting, one should teach the ignorant but you know he will just waste your time. Anyone else reading this, obviously not Wallet, there are a couple of types of polio vaccine. They have saved countless lives risk/benefit wise, completing the job takes money. Worth a read (not zerohedge) https://www.wired.com/story/the-war-on-polio-just-entered-its-most-dangerous-phase/
also worth a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus#Genetic_mutation or if you're lazy like wallet:
Your post exactly proves my point. Medical decisions were made based on monetary and what was perceived as a quicker end vs. a known safer approach. Result it’s backfiring. Im not knocking polio vaccines, they’ve saved unknown millions, the point even with known risks, polio being a stable virus, there’s that chance of mishap. Now input what’s going on today with Covid, a virus we are still unlocking, learning and are now openly circumventing established trial safety protocols rushing to vaccinate. What could possibly go wrong?
Bugen’s article https://www.wired.com/story/the-war-on-polio-just-entered-its-most-dangerous-phase/ There’s a further complication. The eradication campaign didn’t choose the oral vaccine for worldwide distribution just for its cost and ease of use. The decision to use the live formula was also influenced by a quirk that made that version especially appealing as a public health tool: the fact that a dose given to one child could actually protect several children.
Yeh, I dunno. The polio virus in the wild WAS stable but the rejiggered one that has escaped is not stable, it's a new variation. They were using a very old traditional approach which is to alter the virus, weaken it and then inject so that the body produces immunity. All fine and dandy in theory if the virus is truly weakened but if it is viable it starts spreading an altered virus. Some of the vaccines that use this approach for some diseases do not have this problem because they use totally dead viruses and just let the body react to the proteins in the dead viruses. Even with smallpox you get some fatalities from accidental living virus being in the vaccine, not many but some. The difference is that if the virus lives in that mix it is still just the original small pox virus. In the instance with this polio vaccine it is not only disabling the recipient but it is transmitting a new and different strain into the wild. That's how we - meaning the Chinese- got us into trouble with the Wuhan virus. They brought a bat virus into the lab and rejiggered it or at least took it out of its stable environment.
I just feel we’re getting ahead of ourselves, I understand the perceived need, just have a bad feeling about this. Anyways, got a brisket and ribs in the smoker that need tending... have great Labor Day weekend everyone.
Glad Kamala is winning over OP: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/politics/kamala-harris-not-trust-trump-vaccine-cnntv/index.html
You have apples and oranges all over the place. I can't even start with this. I'm tired and I got not yams. Enjoy the meat coma.
China will tell the WHO when Kamala's vaccine is ready, and Joe will place orders. Or as Joe would say: "China developed the virus so why wouldn't they be in the best position to develop a vaccine?"