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Families lined up to get the POLIO SHOTS! 

Recently, the last remaining victims who spent their lives in IRON LUNGS are dying: 

Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung to breathe

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1047691984/decades-after-polio-martha-is-among-the-last-to-still-rely-on-an-iron-lung-to-br

Because the transmission was not understood, people avoided public settings.

Let's remember that at the height of COVID, TRUMP promoted the ALIEN SPERM DONOR LUNATIC: 

Trump promotes a doctor who has claimed alien DNA was used in medical treatments

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/politics/stella-immanuel-trump-doctor/

As if that stupidity wasn't bad enough, DESANTIS appointed DR. JOE LADAPO as FLORIDA SURGEON GENERAL, a follower of the ALIEN SPERM DONOR LUNATIC. 

On September 3, 2025, Ladapo compared all vaccine mandates to slavery: "Every last one is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery."

When UNSCIENTIFIC LUNACY creeps in and the American public is SCIENTIFICALLY ILLITERATE, it turns into tragedy! RED STATES and Republican controlled areas had higher COVID DEATH RATES than BLUE STATES. 

What pResident is stupid enough to promote such an irrational quack? 

COMMENTS:

I already knew vaccines didn’t cause autism. It’s a ridiculous, boneheaded, flat out lie (not “myth” - myths have truths/lessons in them).

An NIH guy admitting vaccines don’t cause autism is like admitting he has a nose on his face. Unfortunately, maga probably wouldn’t believe that, either.

Stubborn stupidity in the face of overwhelming evidence is a huge (“hyoooge”) problem in this country.

I did have one person today say if "Dr. Jay said it, it must be true" and they called Bob Kennedy full of it---i think they were an anti-vaxxer

Small victories! Yay!

⬆️"Stubborn stupidity in the face of overwhelming evidence is a huge (“hyoooge”) problem in this country."

I think many parents believe that vaccines causes autism because

(1) they don't want to acknowledge that there may be a genetic predisposition for autism which in their mind might suggest that THEY are to blame. (NOTE: I don't believe that would be true even IF researchers did find a strong genetic link).

(2) the average person has an extremely poor understanding of cause and effect. The fact that a child is diagnosed with autism X weeks or months after getting their vaccines is TOTALLLY meaningless as "evidence" that vaccines cause autism. But people are prone to see patterns and then confuse correlation with causation.

I think I have previously shared this website o9n Substack, but it is the best one I know of for debunking the idea that a strong correlation MUST be indicative of causation. Enjoy!

www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Conspiracy theories make ignorant people feel smart!

Excellent points and thanks for the link! I appreciate your explanations for why people can be so sensitive to the subject. It makes them more human, if still not very smart. (Correlation vs causation is something we should learn early, or at least figure out eventually), but I better understand now. (I don’t have kids, so I didn’t know the timing aspect.)

One other thing I forgot to mention is that most people assume that an increase in the number of kids being diagnosed as autistim MUST mean that autism itself is on the rise. That could tie in with RFK's ridiculous theory about 5G being the cause.

Of course, the most likely, but often overlooked, explanation is that in earlier generations lots of kids with milder autism were never diagnosed with anything and more severe cases were misdiagnosed.

I'm in NC where we currently have a rapidly growing measles outbreak that is spilling over from SC. I had not heard about the Polio outbreak - UGH!