Interesting post on polio vaccines here
I don’t agree with everything simply because I think he overstates the chances of paralytic polio in the unvaccinated and its transmission rate but his points on the vaccine are well taken and worth reading
I wrote a bit about Polio here when it was first reported being found in sewers. Provides some interesting history.
I took the news of Polio in sewers last June a bit lightly because pretty much everyone in the developed world is vaccinated and for those who are not, well, “their body, their choice”.
In checking the recent news I see they are ramping up the fear
Delays in getting children vaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic and antivaccination sentiment in general may be fueling the most serious threat of polio in the U.S. in years, raising alarms from New York to California.
In the last few weeks, health officials in New York identified the first person in nearly a decade in the U.S. to be diagnosed with polio. The person suffered paralysis. Since then, the polio virus has been found in wastewater not only in two counties in the area where the patient lives but also, as of Friday, in New York City.
The virus may be rebounding worldwide. The Jerusalem area this year suffered an outbreak, and the virus showed up in London wastewater in June.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-13/first-polio-case-us-decade-low-vaccination-rate
So a couple of thoughts as to what they might be up to
1-Restore faith in Vaccines after the COVID vaxes have opened the eyes of everyone but the brain dead. After all, Polio Vaccine was one of the better vaccines after they worked the bugs out (causing polio, contamination with SV-40), even if its impact was perhaps overstated (read my linked post)
2-Bring out a New Vaccine
3-Push for children & Adult Boosters
“On August 10, the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommended that a further booster dose of polio vaccine be offered to all children in London aged between one and nine.”
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-08-polio-vaccine-boosters-london-childrenan.html
4-Cover up VAIDS (with weakened immunity many diseases by viruses held back by vaccines might become more prevalent)
5-Cover up a COVID Vaccine Side Effect (eg GBS, Transverse myelitis ) especially with the kiddies being jabbed who were also the group most affected by Polio back in the day
6-Heck if I know
First, lets start with what we know about the Virus and the Vaccine.
First off, Polio is not an airborne virus. No need for Masks
Second, Poliovirus is a fecal-oral route pathogen — meaning viral particles are not passed in tiny aerosols from our breath, or large droplets from a cough, but rather in tiny bits of fecal matter that make their way onto hands, or into the water supply, and then into mouths — the poliovirus can readily spread itself in its usual manner among a population entirely immunized via the IPV vaccine.
Polio vaccines in US (inactivated polio vaccine (IPV)) are not sterilizing. They don’t stop infection or transmission, just the disease known as paralytic polio.
Kind of sounds like the COVID Vaccine.
That puts a hole in those who say its not a Vaccine because it does not stop infection
The live attenuated Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) used from 1954-2000 in US and outside the US today is sterilizing because it provides mucosal immunity, whereas IM or subcutaneous injection with IPV does not
While some estimates say 1/200 polio cases turn to paralytic polio this likely overstates the frequency. Its based on high levels of paralytic polio cases in the 40’s-50’s which were likely due in part to DDT and a more relaxed case definition that was tightened up after vaccines rolled out in 1954
From the link above
With OPV there is a risk of vaccine-associated paralytic polio (VAPP)
in the “1 in 2-3 million” range . The people who receive the vaccine, often immune-compromised, develop paralyzing poliomyelitis if the virus mutates into a pathogenic form and attacks the nervous system.
In communities employing the OPV vaccine but with lower rates of acceptance, a strain could circulate among the community and acquire mutations over a year or two that would revert it back to a pathogenic strain, so-called “circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus” (cVDPV).
There are 3 types of wild poliovirus; type 2 has been eradicated (and recently type 3 as well) through the global OPV campaign, but type 2 most easily mutates back into a virulent form from the OPV vaccine, meaning that no wild type 2 poliovirus is now in existence, but most cases of actual poliomyelitis are caused by vaccine-derived type 2 polioviruses.
Bivalent (type 1 and 3 only) OPV was developed, since wild type 2 was eliminated from the globe and the type 2 strain in the vaccine was so problematic.
This led to the development of a modified type 2 monovalent OPV (mOPV2), reformulated to reduce the risk of mutating into a problematic form. This will not protect against the type 1 wild poliovirus still found in Afghanistan and Pakistan, nor the type 3 vaccine-derived poliovirus found circulating in Israel
Per the CDC, after IPV we’re “most likely protected for many years”:
After OPV, an Italian study estimated that we “should be protected for at least 18 years.”
Not exactly confidence-inspiring verbiage for those of us decades out from our last shot. I get it; it’s hard to find case reports of elderly patients contracting polio for the first time and becoming paralyzed. Is that due to adults being resistant to the worst effects of the poliovirus, though, or that the vast majority of adults in modern history were either fully vaccinated or exposed to poliovirus as children, and hardly exposed to poliovirus as adults? Another mystery.
I can say that we have case reports of paralytic poliomyelitis patients approaching my own advanced age of 52; and the example of FDR, controversial as it may be, diagnosed at 39.
For an adult, especially one living around a polio outbreak, doubly so if they’re not sure they got a complete polio series as a child or have any doubts about their immune system, why not get a booster?
So I’ll end this here. Just have to wait and see how it develops. We live in a world swimming in viruses. Viruses are part of nature. Many are beneficial in ways we know and ways we don’t.
They train Childrens immune systems and help them develop, and they keep Adults immune systems in shape. If the virus hunters are going fishing in the sewers, they are going to serve us up plenty of news about the viruses they find to keep those who are susceptible in perpetual fear.