The Real World Consequences Of Flooding Media Zones With Sh*t.

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“The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”

Steve Bannon to Michael Lewis

State of the Union Day, 2018.

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As I've mentioned before, while I was born in the 50's I was lucky enough to be born just this side of the polio vaccine roll out.

In contrast, a good friend of mine, who is a few years older, was not so lucky. While the case of polio he contracted was relatively mild he has had to deal with difficulty walking his entire life.

Now.

All that sh*t that people like Mr. Bannon, quoted above, have been using to flood zone for the politically expedient purposes helped fuel irrational Covid 19 vaccine 'hesitancy' that led to up to 300,000 needless deaths in the United States alone.

And as you can see from Justin Ling's tweet, above, there are many pushing the same politically expedient fecal matter into Canadian parliament right here and right now.

Here's hoping that same sh*t does not prevent a single young person anywhere who still needs it from getting fully vaccinated for polio, pronto:

Low polio vaccination coverage among teenagers risks the re-emergence of virulent polio infection in the UK, experts have warned.

Fewer than half of 13 to 14-year-olds received their teenage booster against polio in some parts of England last year, data shows, after public health officials declared a national incident over evidence the virus is spreading in the community.

The form of virus that was detected through routine surveillance of wastewater in north and east London – vaccine-derived poliovirus – poses a low risk to health but there is a concern that a significant drop in vaccination uptake during the pandemic could offer the virus a foothold, allowing it to keep circulating...

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...Prof Paul Hunter, of the University of East Anglia, said: “Teenagers are not necessarily that well-protected against infection, particularly if they’ve not had the booster. We’re not expecting it to give rise to paralytic cases over the coming days, but the longer it circulates the more opportunity there is for it to turn into a fully virulent polio virus again, which would be a disaster. Those places with low uptake need to urgently address it.”

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...The agency typically picks up a handful of unrelated positive results for poliovirus each year, linked to people given the oral polio vaccine in other countries. The oral vaccine contains live virus – unlike the inactivated vaccine given in the UK – and people can shed this in their faeces for several weeks and also infect others.

The London samples raised the alarm because they were related to one another and contained mutations that suggested the virus was evolving as it spreads from person to person. If it continues to spread, vaccine-associated virus can mutate to become fully virulent, to the point where it can cause paralysis in unvaccinated people...

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