I'm reminded of the contributions of Naomi Wu. https://archive.org/details/youtube-4VKZTmTP7oY
Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma
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Re: Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Because your entire premise here sort of betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept? So we stop vaccinating people here, and require everyone that enters be vaccinated. Problem solved! Except not really, because people here travel to foreign places. So also everyone that _leaves_ here needs to be vaccinated as well. But that's do-able. Except, and here's the part where "herd immunity" is important: Being v…
Disappointing such basics of vaccine and disease spread theory have to be explained on HN, and you explained it very well.
The US is under such an enormous disinformation campaign. I don't know how we can immunize people against the BS they are assaulted with everyday. Too many people benefit from that gullibility and ignorance.
Re: Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma
#33Wild bad luck. Polio and despite vaccination she got Covid not once but twice and died of sequelei! And recently married. That is like lightening striking, again and again and again and again.
The Covid vaccination doesn't stop you getting Covid, it just on average reduces the severity of the infection. Covid is still producing multiple waves a year despite the vaccinations. You can still get Long Covid despite vaccination, and you can still die from Covid even if you are vaccinated, thousands do so every week.
Re: Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma
#34Died of Long Covid. Been seeing a growing number of deaths in the Long Covid communities. There are >400 million people with Long Covid and growing in the world, if its lethal its going to be a lot of dead in the coming years.
Re: Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma
#35Her self-created obituary, if anyone’s curious: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/shawnee-ok/martha...
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Re: Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma
#36let me know in a few years what the last polio patient is doing.
Re: Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma
#37Died of Long Covid. Been seeing a growing number of deaths in the Long Covid communities. There are >400 million people with Long Covid and growing in the world, if its lethal its going to be a lot of dead in the coming years.
...she was in a iron lung. How are you at extrapolating the heigh of a baby in a few years?
Re: Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma
#38And a good day to you, sir!
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Re: Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma
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