Shot in the Dark

It’s SCIENCE!

SCENE:  Avery LIBRELLE is riding a recumbent bike through the Minneapolis skyway when Mitch BERG happens across the path. 

LIBRELLE: Merg!

BERG:  Er, hey, Avery.  What are doing riding a bike through the skyway…

LIBRELLE: Shut up.   Do you remember these?

BERG:  They were a little before my time, but I know what they are…

LIBRELLE:  You have never seen one because VACCINES!  But your party wants to abolish vaccines!

BERG:  First, no we don’t.  Second, I’m not an anti-vaxxer.  But the vaccines we take for granted today – Measles, Rubella, Mumps and all of those – had years of testing before the public got anywhere near them. 

I didn’t trust the first round of Covid vaccines, because there’s no way the pharmaceutical industry can produce something that complicated, that fast, without some teething problems.  

LIBRELLE:  Hah.  You might as well be a faith-healer! Trust the experts!

BERG:  I mean, I mentioned testing, right?

 

In April 1955 more than 200 000 children in five Western and mid-Western USA states received a polio vaccine in which the process of inactivating the live virus proved to be defective. Within days there were reports of paralysis and within a month the first mass vaccination programme against polio had to be abandoned. Subsequent investigations revealed that the vaccine, manufactured by the California-based family firm of Cutter Laboratories, had caused 40 000 cases of polio, leaving 200 children with varying degrees of paralysis and killing 10.

Paul Offit, paediatrician and prominent advocate of vaccination, sets the `Cutter incident’ in the context of the struggle of medical science against polio and other infectious diseases over the course of the 20th century. He reminds us that, within a decade of Karl Landsteiner’s identification of the polio virus in 1908, an epidemic in New York killed 2400 people (mostly children) and left thousands more with a life-long disability. In the 1950s, summer outbreaks in the USA caused tens of thousands of cases, leaving hundreds paralysed or dead. `Second only to the atomic bomb’, polio was `the thing that Americans feared the most’.

 

(But LIBRELLE has already cycled away, looking for underutilized recycling bins).

And SCENE. 

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5 responses to “It’s SCIENCE!”

  1. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    I know that there are many who don’t know (I didn’t know) but the optimal polio virus environment is one with 5hitty sanitation (pun intended). Resolving this is step one in eradicating polio.

    Step two is to simulate the exposure to polio virus in infancy that was commonplace in the past which would provide early immunity through maternal antibodies and mild infection, preventing severe disease later in life. This is where vaccines come in.

    If the manufacturing process didn’t poison the vaccines given. Sheesh.

  2. John "Bigman" Jones Avatar
    John “Bigman” Jones

    But…but…if we test potential vaccines before mandating them, people may die. The only true test is a blind study in which some subjects are given the vaccine and others are not. That’s great for the ones who get the vaccine, they are cured. But what about the ones who do not? Leave them to suffer? What kind of monster woould do that?

    No the only safe, sane, moral course is to administer it as soon as possible to as many as possible, and take our chances on side effects later. After all, that’s what the national vaccine injury compensation program is for.

    The fact this course is also the most profitable is entirely beside the point.

  3. Scott Hughes Avatar
    Scott Hughes

    I have to wonder if a vaccine could have been rapidly available in 1918 how many would have been 1st in line for taking it?

  4. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Mr. Science Fauci didn’t report that more people died in the vaccine test group than was reported. This was apparently known in other countries, but our overlords decided, as usual, to deceive the masses to further their agenda of control.

  5. John "Bigman" Jones Avatar
    John “Bigman” Jones

    It’s worth remembering that a vaccine produces immunity whereas the Covid “vaccine” does not, it is merely a countermeasure which is why Covid claims go to the countermeasure fund and not the vaccine fund.

    If you get the polio vaccine, you can never catch polio. If you get the flu shot, you can still get the flu. Or Covid.

    There is no vaccine for Covid, never was. Lies all the way down.

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