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Biophilic

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3. Those people are despicable.

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Wed Nov 19, 2025, 05:11 PM

Nov 19

It would be unconscionable if polio was allowed to come back. Awful, awful people who are making those claims. How the heck did I miss that there were so many evil people in the world?

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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