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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by weaksauce on Thursday February 03, 2022 @05:24PM (#30199890)
we have for all intents and purposes eradicated polio in the areas that trust vaccines. it's in basically 2 places now because of a few factors but a large one is that the taliban doesn't trust them and think it's a sterilizing campaign... pakistan, and afganistan.
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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by omegaworks on Thursday February 03, 2022 @05:52PM (#30200204)
Don't get it twisted: the CIA disguised its spies as polio vaccine administrators[1]. We could have eradicated the virus had the medical staff not been weaponized.

1. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/05/20/314231260...

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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by lovemenot on Thursday February 03, 2022 @07:30PM (#30201132)
You can both be right. CIA poured fuel onto the fire.
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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by vanattab on Saturday February 05, 2022 @08:36AM (#30220832)
But I do find it is interesting that we almost had polio eradicated until the vaccine was politicized...
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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by lovemenot on Thursday February 10, 2022 @05:35AM (#30284500)
There have been both blunt and sharp political forces in play. As far as I know, CIA never operated this way in northern Nigeria, yet that was one of the anti-vax hold-outs where polio was kept alive.
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