The polio vaccine is just that - a vaccine. The COVID shots are mRNA therapeutic and experimental. Big difference.
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The polio vaccine is just that - a vaccine. The COVID shots are mRNA therapeutic and experimental. Big difference.
Yup, glad I got the polio jab or I would have been in a wheel chair instead of these crutches...it's irritating to have these seasonal jabs that do not work in the same classifications as actual immunizations. Every person I know who gets sick with the flu has received their flu shot. Every year, it's crazy.
There are at least two different vaccines for polio. A manufacturing issue with an early batch of the Salk vaccine caused a lot of injuries, including to a relative of mine. That predates VAERS and compensation funds, btw.
Contra, another relative of mine, 30 years older, had polio as a kid, iron lung for months, survived but permanently weakened. Still lived to 93 though. Of course you don't want polio.
I wasn't alive then, but I haven't read about anyone telling the people whose kids were killed or injured by a bad batch of polio vaccine that they were tinfoil hats who deserved to die. And I'll note that the kids getting vaccinated for polio were at serious personal risk of being harmed by polio. They weren't 50+ years younger than the people dying from it.
The safety issues with the polio vaccine seem to be past history, by decades. Maybe that will be true for Covid-19 vaccines someday; more likely it will become irrelevant, since many viruses mutate to less harmful forms, and Covid-19 from day 1 has been less dangerous, at least to people under 80, than virtually any other virus we attempt to vaccinate against.
Stop calling them vaccinations and start calling them mandatory subscriptions.
And one that probably can't be cancelled. At the very, very least, people need to be told in no uncertain terms that taking that first shot might mean not having a choice when it comes to taking future shots. You simply can't have informed consent without at least that.