Before You Panic About Polio...
Before You Panic About Polio...
beyond the smoke and mirrors, it’s all monsters and band-aids created by the public health industry.
Stop Being Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
Polio is one of the more successful infectious disease “Monsters”. Poliovirus an enterovirus (a class of viruses named by their transmission-route through the intestine) that doesn’t produce symptoms in about 75% of people who are exposed to it. A symptomatic poliovirus infection generally produces flu-like symptoms that resolve on their own after 2-5 days.
But we have been trained to associate polio with iron lungs and wheelchairs. Why?
From the CDC website:
Rarely, people with poliovirus infection will develop more serious symptoms that affect the brain and spinal cord, like paresthesia (feeling of pins and needles in the legs), meningitis (infection of the covering of the spinal cord and/or brain), or paralysis (can’t move parts of the body) or weakness in the arms, legs, or both.
Without any deeper understanding, going out in the world knowing that polio is circulating, might feel like a game of Russian roulette. But is that fear warranted?
When our fears are blown out of proportion, we seem to cower from relatively benign threats and accept the flimsy band-aids (enhanced with cool graphics and packaging) that come to our rescue and make us feel safe. But understanding vulnerabilities and learning about ways to address them could go a long way towards alleviating fear and empowering us in real ways. So let’s try.
The Three Little Pigs can offer us some insight.
Polio (and so many other viruses and pathogens that are bound to become the next big threat once a vaccine is available) can be equated to the Big Bad Wolf. The Monster.
What is the Big Bad Wolf really?
Isn’t he just a wolf (with supernatural lung capacity in the case of the Three Little Pigs), with normal predatory instincts for his species? (And when it comes to pigs, humans are much more formidable enemies. But I digress…)
Wolves get a bad rap. A wolf only becomes the Big Bad Wolf when we judge it based on one aspect of its nature and fail to integrate an understanding of it into how we go about the world. In this way, we can learn from the pigs. There’s a reason many of us don’t just pitch a tent in the middle of unfamiliar woods, as much as we may love nature.
It’s vulnerable.
The third pig understood this and created a strong boundary to keep the wolf out. An awareness and understanding of the wolf’s nature allowed the third pig to fortify his environment and create a home that could protect him.
Similarly, keeping “safe” from infectious disease is about strong boundaries. More importantly, health is about maintaining homeostasis and preserving the balance of what comes in and what goes out.
In the case of polio, it really only becomes the Big Bad Wolf we imagine when our blood brain barrier and other internal barriers are “made of straw” or when the virus is somehow able to penetrate those barriers. Other problems can also arise when we are not able to fully clear a pathogen. (Those flu-like symptoms we’re so eager to avoid, are a manifestation of the body’s attempt to push something out. Give some thought to how often we interfere with that process without a second thought.)
This is true for many pathogens and common childhood illnesses.
Let’s go back to the CDC:
A smaller proportion of people with poliovirus infection will develop other, more serious symptoms that affect the brain and spinal cord:
Meningitis (infection of the covering of the spinal cord and/or brain)occurs in about 1–5 out of 100 people with poliovirus infection, depending on virus type
Paralysis (can’t move parts of the body) or weakness in the arms, legs, or both occurs in about 1 out of 200 people to 1 in 2000 people, depending on virus type
So, if the virus penetrates barriers that were designed to keep these kinds of viruses out, we can develop more serious symptoms. Perhaps this isn’t so random. A healthy gut (as opposed to, say, a “leaky gut”) and respiratory system can readily handle enteroviruses and most pathogens.
So what might make one more vulnerable? Could it be helpful to cultivate an awareness of environmental factors that may interfere with the integrity of our intestinal lining, blood brain barrier and other physiological barriers designed to keep pathogens out?
Many scientists have asserted that DDT, arsenic, lead and other heavy metals, as well as spike protein from the Covid shots could play a role in compromising these defenses. Dr. Suzanne Humphries explains this well in Smoke, Mirrors and the “Disappearance” of Polio and may leave you wondering whether the polio vaccine deserves the credit it’s been given. (Spoiler alert: it doesn’t)
Prior to 1954, the following undoubtedly hid behind the name “poliomyelitis”: Transverse Myelitis, viral or “aseptic” meningitis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)- (what Franklin Delano Roosevelt had)[4], Chinese Paralytic syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, epidemic cholera, cholera morbus, spinal meningitis, spinal apoplexy, inhibitory palsy, intermittent fever, famine fever, worm fever, bilious remittent fever, ergotism, post-polio syndrome, acute flaccid paralysis(AFP).
Included under the umbrella term “Acute Flaccid Paralysis” are Poliomyelitis, Transverse Myelitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, enteroviral encephalopathy, traumatic neuritis, Reye’s syndrome etc.
And what about polysorbate 80, which is often used to facilitate drug delivery to the brain and is an ingredient in a number of vaccines, including influenza and COVID-19 vaccines?
And then there’s provocation polio, which suggests that injections and other medical interventions may enable pathogens to bypass our natural barriers to cause paralytic syndromes. From a 2014 Lancet article:
One of the first medical procedures implicated in the causation of polio was tonsil surgery. A study of more than 2000 case histories in the 1940s by the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission concluded that tonsillectomies led to a significant risk of respiratory paralysis due to bulbar polio. Although proponents of the theory did not entirely oppose tonsillectomies, they cautioned that such interventions should be avoided during epidemics…
…Concerns about tonsillectomies coincided with indications that paediatric injections could also incite polio paralysis… The application of epidemiological surveillance and statistical methods enabled researchers to trace the steady rise in polio incidence along with the expansion of immunisation programmes for diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus… Results published by Australian doctor Bertram McCloskey also showed a strong association between injections and polio paralysis. Meanwhile, in the USA, public health researchers in New York and Pennsylvania reached similar conclusions. Clinical evidence, derived from across three continents, had established a theory that required attention.
Several ideas were posited by health professionals in an effort to understand how immunisations for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis seemed to provoke polio infection. One theorist posited that injections injured human tissues and predisposed them to viral infection. A further theory advanced by Harold K Faber of the Stanford University School of Medicine argued that the ubiquitous poliovirus, already present on the skin of many children, was being driven into the body during immunisations and thus seeded deep into the tissue.
Public Health Agencies are Building Straw Houses and Offering Bandaids
If you would like a sneak peek at the next public health narrative roll-out, you may want to start attending local Board of Health meetings. This tends to be how CDC propaganda goes local and how the “wolves” become Big and Bad.
According to the last meeting I went to a few weeks ago, both polio and ebola are on their radar. There’s interest in reinvigorating a polio vaccination campaign, so I knew to be expecting stories like this one. (Ebola headlines are not far behind.)
The U.S. will expand polio wastewater surveillance to communities with low vaccination rates outside the New York City metro area, after an outbreak over the summer left an unvaccinated adult paralyzed and raised questions about how widely the virus may be circulating.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a statement Wednesday, said it will initially work with health officials in Michigan and Philadelphia to identify communities with low vaccination rates and begin testing sewage in those areas. The CDC said it is in preliminary discussions with other state and local health departments about expanding testing to other areas of the U.S.
…The decision by federal health officials to expand polio surveillance comes after an unvaccinated adult in Rockland County, New York, was left paralyzed after contracting the virus over the summer. The CDC considers a single case of paralysis from polio a public health emergency because it's so rare and indicates the virus is spreading throughout the community.
Let’s think about this for a minute.
The assumption is that, because one person developed a case of paralysis after contracting “the virus,” it must be spreading throughout the community. Why? Because it’s “so rare” for someone to become seriously impacted by this virus, that if even one person is affected this way, we need to do community-wide surveillance. And obviously, we have to made a direct link between someone’s vaccination status and the cause of illness. Because Science.
Is the CDC tracking the vaccination status of everyone who #DiedSuddenly? Nope. (At least not publicly.)
And so a new playbook is born. Or a new version of the same playbook anyway.
The findings from CDC’s strategic wastewater testing effort will help jurisdictions prioritize vaccination efforts in identified communities of concern…
…The complete recommended polio vaccination series is extremely effective in preventing paralytic polio, and the vaccine protects against severe disease in almost everyone who has received the recommended doses.
Sound familiar?
Incidentally, the one case responsible for all this wastewater surveillance is a case of vaccine-derived poliovirus. In other words, it was spread from a vaccinated person.
Health officials in New York today announced a vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 case, which involves a person in Rockland County, prompting a vaccination push for the unimmunized and those who aren't fully protected and a plea for healthcare providers to look for more cases… (emphasis mine)
…It likely came from a transmission chain involving someone who got the oral polio vaccine (OPV), which hasn't been used in the United States since 2000…
If you pay close attention, you will see that each new crisis coasts on old assumptions, which are themselves the products of earlier incarnations of the playbook. A house of cards… a house of straw… Even the slightest application of “correlation is not causation” would collapse these narratives if only we’d apply it fairly.
Search and destroy has not been going well for us. Perhaps if we invested a little more time on “know thine enemy” we’d find that we don’t have as many enemies as we think.
The same boundaries (host health strength) and possible alternative causes apply to what they call today "long covid", as briefly explained here: https://open.substack.com/pub/freedommovement/p/long-covid-does-not-exist