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From: Wharf Rat	4/15/2025 7:46:53 PM
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Vaccines Work \| Open Mind (wordpress.com) Posted on April 13, 2025 \| When it comes to vaccines, I take it personally. I happened across a YouTuber who struck me as especially well-informed and good at communication, confronting those who deny reality in his own field (medicine). It’s well worth the time to watch Dr. Mike talks with anti-vaxxers. I captured the data to re-create a graph he shows, one which seems to me to be another “hits home” type of graph. You might wonder, why did I select this particular case — poliomyelitis — to illustrate the effectiveness of vaccines? Look at the dot representing the number of polio cases in 1956. One of them was me. Despite having the disease, I was not paralyzed and not killed, but my left leg is atrophied and significantly weaker than the right. The result is that I’ve had a very normal life except for a few things — like always being the last one picked for sports teams, and being told by the U.S. Army that because of the effect of polio, I would never be allowed to serve in the armed forces of the United States. My mother wasn’t so nonchalant about it; she was afraid I might die. Turns out, the two biggest fears of Americans in the early 1950s were #1: The Russians have the atomic bomb, and #2: Polio. When it comes to vaccines, I take it personally.

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