So, I’m just your common everyday idiot, but for some reason I thought they didn’t even do polio vaccinations in the US anymore. I think that stemmed from seeing my mom & dad’s scars on their arms from their inoculation, but not having one myself.

News flash (one google search away) the scar is caused by a vaccination for tuberculosis apparently.

Are they talking about vaccinating (Salk) the kids again?

I tend to follow medical trends. As much as I am opposed to the thinking of anti-vaxxers, I haven't heard of any cases of Polio in the US since about the 1990s.

There has been a lot of news about a Polio-like Disease - Acute Flacid Myelitis which has symptoms like polio but isn't polio.

So before I jump on the bandwagon here, does anyone have more information about the polio case mentioned in the tweet above? is it really polio? Or is it a conflation with AFM (for which there is no vaccine).

Measles still occurs in the US with about 150 (give or take) cases a year in recent years (with the exception of 2014 when there was a large uptake tied to importation of measles from the Philippines.

I remember getting the polio vaccine as a kid...we all feared getting it and being crippled for life...wow...what a step backwards....too bad people don't think before they get trouble...poor child...hope he grows up hating his parents.

Fun stuff

The idiots still don't get it though. Just today I read an article about an anti-vaxxer posted by a 1st cousin. I tried to let it pass, then what appeared to be an actual anti-vaxxer posted.

My cousin probably won't talk to me now if that was a real life friend...

Oh nooo!