Oral vaccine is cheaper than injectable, is easier to administer in mass settings, and provides very good immunity. So it is still used in rural immunization drives in many countries. However - as stated, it may mutate into a wild strain and actually cause illness. Also, being a live virus vaccine, it should not be given to anyone who is immunocompromised or who lives with an immunocompromised person.

Polio is a virus that has no non-human vectors - it does not live in other animals. So the goal was to vaccinate everyone on the planet and therefore eradicate the disease entirely - like we did with smallpox. Wars, mass migrations, other civil disturbances, and vaccine skepticism have disrupted vaccination campaigns and allowed the disease to continue. In some countries rumors abound that vaccination workers are spies for the CIA or are plotting to kill Muslim children. This tends to discourage participation! Sadly there is factual basis for this fear - the CIA organized a vaccination program to collect DNA to pinpoint the location of Osama bin Laden. As good as those results turned out to be, vaccination program directors everywhere were horrified when this information became public.

All those people who think we are living in a simulation might be onto something, and the programmer is a sadist.

Polio is the latest worry. Ney York is urging everyone who has not been vaccinated for polio to get the shot(s) right away. The polio virus was discovered in two NY counties: Rockland and Orange. Those two counties are the home base for antivaxxers. They have the lowest overall vaccinate rate in NY State. There is one confirmed, paralyzed case of polio in one of those counties. The worry is that polio is a virus, and it spreads very easily - through touch, for example. There is no cure - only prevention. The state estimates that hundreds of people could now be carrying the virus. Some will not have symptoms; some will get sick; some will become paralyzed.

It's nice having "Freedom," but when your freedom allows you to spread a paralyzing disease, that's freedom gone too far.

A few months ago, the polio virus was discovered in wastewater in London. They think this was probably from people who received the oral vaccine in a foreign country. That's different from the vaccine given here. I don't know why other countries continue to use the oral vaccine because the disease can be spread that way.

If you don't know much about polio, a search will shock you. Polio caused widespread fear in the 1940s before vaccines were available. The virus disabled more than 35,000 people every year during that time, according to the CDC.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/04/polio-wastewater-samples-outside-new-york-city-suggest-community-spread.html

Humanity: Committing suicide by stupidity.

All those people who think we are living in a simulation might be onto something, and the programmer is a sadist.

Polio is the latest worry. Ney York is urging everyone who has not been vaccinated for polio to get the shot(s) right away. The polio virus was discovered in two NY counties: Rockland and Orange. Those two counties are the home base for antivaxxers. They have the lowest overall vaccinate rate in NY State. There is one confirmed, paralyzed case of polio in one of those counties. The worry is that polio is a virus, and it spreads very easily - through touch, for example. There is no cure - only prevention. The state estimates that hundreds of people could now be carrying the virus. Some will not have symptoms; some will get sick; some will become paralyzed.

It's nice having "Freedom," but when your freedom allows you to spread a paralyzing disease, that's freedom gone too far.

A few months ago, the polio virus was discovered in wastewater in London. They think this was probably from people who received the oral vaccine in a foreign country. That's different from the vaccine given here. I don't know why other countries continue to use the oral vaccine because the disease can be spread that way.

If you don't know much about polio, a search will shock you. Polio caused widespread fear in the 1940s before vaccines were available. The virus disabled more than 35,000 people every year during that time, according to the CDC.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/04/polio-wastewater-samples-outside-new-york-city-suggest-community-spread.html

Humanity: Committing suicide by stupidity.

It's nice having "Freedom," but when your freedom allows you to spread a paralyzing disease, that's freedom gone too far. I am so glad you said that. I totally agree. To me it should be criminal to not vaccinate. It is such a simple thing and has such a huge benefit to so many people it seems like a no brainer to get vaccinated. But fear mongers keep circulating myths about dangers of vaccination that scares people. When will we start to listen to the professionals about risks and stop listening to "Bubba" the high school dropout who knows everything about nothing. Sorry for the rant, but my mother passed away from covid three months before the vaccine became available because a family at the nursing home insisted on their father attend a birthday party. A party he came back from with covid. His was the first case of covid at a fine place that had up to that point kept everyone safe.