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> despite there being no recorded cases - there's definitely shedding going on

> This is not necessarily something that can be attributed to the vaccine.

Some stats about polio that people seem unaware of:

* Around 72% of infections are completely asymptomatic.

* Around 25% of infections result in flu-like symptoms.

* That remaining 3% is where the serious symptoms are, with paralysis occurring in only about 0.5% of infections despite being what polio is known for.

* Searching for the death rate of polio almost always results in finding "5 to 10 percent" - but that's of paralytic polio, not polio infections in general, so if you want polio infections in general, that's 5% of 0.5%, or around 0.025 - 0.05 percent.

https://www.cdc.gov/polio/what-is-polio/index.htm



To put that in perspective, to date, Covid-19 has killed 957k Americans. This works out to be 0.3 percent if everyone had it (which they didn't).


This number is lower than that due to the "with vs from" distinction. The data is really messy though so we can't be sure how much lower.


This "with vs from" distinction is almost entirely meaningless. Unless the person had Covid19 and got shot or drowned in the sea, Covid19 is part of what killed them. When you have multiple diseases, they all contribute to your death.

Otherwise, if we only try to look for the disease that directly caused your final moment, we get absurd conclusions - such as, "no one has ever died of AIDS", since AIDS only destroys your immune system, it doesn't kill you.

Not to mention, Covid19 is not only a pulmonary disease, it is a blood disease, and as such it has hard to measure and predict effects everywhere in your body.


A recent italian Istituto Superiore di Sanità study showed that a great majority of people dead with covid died from it or it have been a serious concurrent cause.

https://amp24.ilsole24ore.com/pagina/AEbOPLHB


And your point is? That Polio is just a non-serious disease?


Look at the two lines from the parent comment that I quoted.




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