I'm sort of gratified that polio is coming back into public consciousness. It will help young people understand this old geezer (me) better. Not that I ever run into a young person anymore.
But even before Queen Elizabeth II became queen, I actually had the real polio. 1950.
I grew up in a company (Dupont) town also. Will company towns ever be understandable again to youth today?
By the way, I'm pretty sure there was no correlation between Dupont and me getting polio.
"The present circulation of polio in New York is telling a far more problematic tale, one in which polio is less dangerous and less disabling."
Polio was near-universally asymptomatic even during the height of paralytic cases. Adult seropositivity was widespread, so at the time it was a mystery whether adults were somehow producing antibodies randomly "The nature of the virus-neutralizing property which usually appears in the serum of animals recovering from an attack of poliomyelitis and which is found in the majority of convalescent human beings and so-called "normal" adult persons is problematic." - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC374583/
Obviously these were antibodies from non-paralytic encounter, and all adults had them. When chimps were given wild polio orally (not the nerve-adopted Flexner strain), in the method developed by Bodian and Howe, they produced antibodies without a clinical course - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2135700/
By 1955 it was acknowledged that childhood asymptomatic encounter produced near-universal lifelong immunity, with a possible role for natural boosting via seasonal asymptomatic waves - "Natural inapparent infection in early childhood, the process by which the vast majority of the world population acquires immunity to poliomyelitis, is known to provide lifelong protection" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1980369/
And, the Sabin "vaccine" was essentially just the virus, delivered orally, and paralysis was ultra-rare. So it is not a very dangerous virus and so the mystery is why paralysis suddenly became less rare, first in US children in the 10s, then US adults in the 20s and 30s, then US children again from 44-55, and sporadically adults again after, and in expanding countries. Possibilities include excessive hygiene, intravenous injection from penecillin shots after 1944, etc.
Of course, since we switched off the Sabin vaccine 20 years ago, no one under 20 has mucosal immunity, and adults have lacked their yearly booster for all that time. So things could get quite interesting.
Wow, thank you for this information. People are going to be living in a constant state of fear, I can't imagine the damage to children's minds. I read some accounts professional men reminiscing how HIV and the D.A.R.E program terrified them at 9yo whose imaginations went wild thinking a stranger would inject them with drugs and OCD habits out of fear for HIV and needing therapy, and their deep concerns for the kids today with Covid and masks. Now the paranoia is on water and people, the neverending news, stress hormones and overactive imaginations are going to implode our children and society, without God's grace no one will be able to discern and think rationally.
Perhaps it's being added to the water somehow and not being shedded. Will be linking this tomorrow @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
"Everything old is new again!"
I'm sort of gratified that polio is coming back into public consciousness. It will help young people understand this old geezer (me) better. Not that I ever run into a young person anymore.
But even before Queen Elizabeth II became queen, I actually had the real polio. 1950.
I grew up in a company (Dupont) town also. Will company towns ever be understandable again to youth today?
By the way, I'm pretty sure there was no correlation between Dupont and me getting polio.
"The present circulation of polio in New York is telling a far more problematic tale, one in which polio is less dangerous and less disabling."
Polio was near-universally asymptomatic even during the height of paralytic cases. Adult seropositivity was widespread, so at the time it was a mystery whether adults were somehow producing antibodies randomly "The nature of the virus-neutralizing property which usually appears in the serum of animals recovering from an attack of poliomyelitis and which is found in the majority of convalescent human beings and so-called "normal" adult persons is problematic." - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC374583/
Obviously these were antibodies from non-paralytic encounter, and all adults had them. When chimps were given wild polio orally (not the nerve-adopted Flexner strain), in the method developed by Bodian and Howe, they produced antibodies without a clinical course - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2135700/
By 1955 it was acknowledged that childhood asymptomatic encounter produced near-universal lifelong immunity, with a possible role for natural boosting via seasonal asymptomatic waves - "Natural inapparent infection in early childhood, the process by which the vast majority of the world population acquires immunity to poliomyelitis, is known to provide lifelong protection" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1980369/
And, the Sabin "vaccine" was essentially just the virus, delivered orally, and paralysis was ultra-rare. So it is not a very dangerous virus and so the mystery is why paralysis suddenly became less rare, first in US children in the 10s, then US adults in the 20s and 30s, then US children again from 44-55, and sporadically adults again after, and in expanding countries. Possibilities include excessive hygiene, intravenous injection from penecillin shots after 1944, etc.
Of course, since we switched off the Sabin vaccine 20 years ago, no one under 20 has mucosal immunity, and adults have lacked their yearly booster for all that time. So things could get quite interesting.
Wow, thank you for this information. People are going to be living in a constant state of fear, I can't imagine the damage to children's minds. I read some accounts professional men reminiscing how HIV and the D.A.R.E program terrified them at 9yo whose imaginations went wild thinking a stranger would inject them with drugs and OCD habits out of fear for HIV and needing therapy, and their deep concerns for the kids today with Covid and masks. Now the paranoia is on water and people, the neverending news, stress hormones and overactive imaginations are going to implode our children and society, without God's grace no one will be able to discern and think rationally.
I’m calling BS. Any “health emergency” going forward touted by any politicians will be null and void for me. It’s just static.