At this rate, polio could make a comeback thanks to antivaxx assholes

The Anti-Vax Movement’s Wildest Claim Yet: Polio Wasn’t So Bad

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Even in the house of horrors that is vaccine-preventable illnesses, polio stands out as particularly terrifying. Before the rollout of the vaccine in the 1950s, the disease paralyzed or killed more than 500,000 people worldwide every year. The disease was especially catastrophic for children, some of whom were confined for years to wheelchairs or a mechanical breathing chamber known ominously as the iron lung. Older people remember being forbidden to play outside during summer outbreaks for fear that they would catch the disease.

The darker chapters of public health history do not seem to faze anti-vaccine activists, who have long claimed that measles, a catastrophic disease, is no big deal. Now, it’s polio’s turn to be downplayed.

Over the last few months, a handful of influential anti-vaccine activists have dabbled in polio denialism. In September, for example, Larry Cook, founder of the anti-vaccine group Stop Mandatory Vaccination, falsely claimed to his 137,000 followers on X that polio “was cured with high dose vitamin C” and that “the polio vaccine NEVER stopped polio. We’ve been lied to for decades and decades.”

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Then, earlier this week, a video of a man holding a baby while talking about polio made the rounds. In addition to repeating Humphries’ and de Becker’s dubious talking points, he claims that modern sanitation could stop the spread of polio. “You have to literally put the feces of a polio-infected human being into your mouth to contract polio,” he announces. “And that sounds more like a sanitation issue rather than a vaccination issue.” (Presumably the baby this guy is holding does not attend daycare, where the fecal-oral route of disease transmission is, uh, robust.) The video has been viewed 376,000 times on X and counting.

Imagine how people who grew up witnessing the horrors of polio (people dying or becoming crippled because of that nightmare disease) , must feel seeing these worthless assclowns claiming it wasn't so bad and telling people not to get their kids vaccinated for it.

Breeders must truly hate their children if they aren't willing to put them through some minor discomfort to prevent the effects of absolutely horrible diseases. There are mothers in third-world countries who walk for MILES carrying their kids on their backs to get them vaccinated.

Maybe we need a big resurgence of these conditions to show breeders what vaccines stop. The shitty part is that in order for them to potentially learn a lesson, it will have to be their kids who suffer and die while the breeders themselves flounce off scot-free since they were probably vaccinated. Salk and Pasteur would choke some bitches if they were alive to see that people are refusing their life-saving treatments because of a long-debunked fear of acquired autism.

Barring legitimate allergies to the ingredients in the shots, vaccinations should be mandatory. None of these bullshit exemptions for religion or "philosophical reasons." If Gawd had a fucking problem with vaccines, he wouldn't have given people the ability to invent them forever ago. Not vaccinating your kids should be considered neglect and breeders can have two choices: either they vaccinate their kids AND provide proof of it, or they have their kids taken away to be forcibly vaccinated and the breeder is charged and fined before getting their kids back. If they are found to falsify vaccination paperwork, they get charged and fined for that too.

In order to deal with anti-vaccination, people need to be punished for not vaccinating their kids. It's the only way, because as it stands, there are zero repercussions for the parents themselves if they choose not to get their kids the MMR and DTAP shots