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The Polio Fallacy (Re: The Patriot Act)
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| Contributor | Imperator |
| Last Edited | Imperator Jun 16, 2005 12:57pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, June 16, 2005 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The disappearance of an American teenager in Aruba has been more than a tragedy for her and for her family. It is the latest of many tragedies to strike trusting people who have long been sheltered from dangers and who have acted as if there were no dangers.
Not only individuals but whole nations have lost their sense of danger after having been protected from those dangers.
After the devastating disease of polio was finally conquered by vaccines, back in the 1960s, the number of people afflicted declined almost to the vanishing point. Some people then began to see no need to take the vaccine, since apparently no one was getting polio any more, so who was there to catch it from?
The result was a needless resurgence of crippling and death from this terrible disease. |
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