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red dog 1

(32,227 posts) Wed Nov 19, 2025, 05:05 PM Nov 19

The anti-vax movement's wildest claim yet: "Polio wasn't so bad." [View all]

The anti-vax movement's wildest claim yet: Polio wasn't so bad www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The anti-vax movement's wildest claim yet: "Polio wasn't so bad." [View all] red dog 1 Nov 19 OP

BATSHITERY knows no bounds. B.See Nov 19 #1

Unless you died montanacowboy Nov 19 #2

Those people are despicable. Biophilic Nov 19 #3

Wait til Neil Young sees this Norbert Nov 19 #4

Joni Mitchell is too. I only learned about that recently. Crunchy Frog Nov 19 #7

In the US, while Salk was developing his vaccine, polio killed more annually than 9/11. RockRaven Nov 19 #5

Much as some people have a penchant for blaming "Boomers" for everything in life, Sparkly Nov 19 #6

I knew someone whose mother got polio as an adult-- viva la Nov 19 #8

How horrible. Boomerproud Nov 19 #9

Ask Mitch McConnell if he thought polio "wasn't so bad". no_hypocrisy Nov 19 #10

Back in the early 1950's... MrsCheaplaugh Nov 19 #11