Rasputin_Vol
"Slava Ukraina"
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I think you had several things going on when the polio vaccine was released.I dont know enough about polio. I don't even know if I got the polio vaccine. I know I got MMR, I know I've gotten flu. I dont expect to get M,M, or R, but I fully expect I could get the flu virus even if I've had the flu vaccine.
I can't answer your polio question, but how many years of human trials did we have on the the polio vaccine before it became common and people didn't day "we don't know enough about long term effects?"
1. The people trusted their government far more back then
2. They did have several issue with the polio vaccine when it first came out. Dr. Alton Oschner, one of the leading researchers in New Orleans that helped in the development of the polio vaccine put on a demonstration in front of a live audience in an attempt to reassure any doubters. He brought his two grandchildren on stage and injected them with the polio vaccine. One of them died and the other was permanently paralyzed. They also later estimated that they may have unintentionally infected 100 million people with a cancer causing virus during the first stages of the vaccine rollout.
3. People would have been far more eager to roll up their sleeves and take a chance of a polio vaccine because of the death rates and damaging effects of polio if you did catch it. The mortality rate on COVID is far, far less dangerous, which is why a lot of people do not see the need to risk taking a vaccine for a virus with a 99% survival rate. There is no way humanly possible for anyone to compare polio mortality rates to COVID.