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The Eradication of Polio
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No one has to preach when the facts tell a great story on their own. Well done Simon, well done.
No they need to preach. Some people think pushups will save them .
I am old enough to remember the time before the Polio vaccine. Seeing people in Iron Lungs scared the hell out of little boy me!
just watching pictures still scares me. what at horrifying disease.
@John Mann sad
Those who have enjoyed the protection of herd immunity have no notion of the alarming reality (smallpox, polio, etc) before vaccination rendered their childhoods safe.
@@aletheiai Well said
Scares the hell out of me now.
"Humans can do some quite extraordinary things when we stop fighting long enough to collaborate properly." (Simon Whistler, 2021)
Yup. Put that one in the book. Glad I was here for it with y'all.
"But let's not get too preachy "
Write that down write that down
The WHO lied about the Rona virus for the last year in order to stay friends with China. So, no. The WHO is bullcrap
Arguements stem from deception, stealing, greed and someone asking what's up when things seem fishy for lack of words at given moment like Armenian genocide and related issues
It would have to had been the summer of 1949, I was not yet six. My big brother had taken me 'swimming' at nearby city part. Came home with sniffles as I recall it. To this day I can see the terror in our mother's eyes when she thought it might be polio. She said if there was ever a vaccine she'd sell everything the family had to get if for us. When it came I was free.
My Aunt caught polio in her twenties, 3 years before I was born. Growing up I would see her, partialy paralyzed, blinded. When I was older I saw a photo of a young beautiful woman that was my aunt. So yes, I am vehemently pro vaccine.
Dad came home from a long bike ride and ended up with sniffles and then polio. It's almost erratic how disease spreads, and it really emphasizes the need for distance and PPE. I've heard from a friend that her daughter is thinking about using a mask in winter months because she never got a cold when she wore her mask.
Out of the mouths of babes come words of wisdom.
The contrast for me was having a brother 10 years older. When he went through his growth spurt, he had pains in his legs real bad-- as did I. But the difference was that with my brother my parents were terrified it was the onset of polio. With me, being vaccinated, it was just growing pains.
This is what the media did to you all. It scared the bejeezus out of you for no reason.
@@davidanalyst671 Hmm, people give their firsthand stories from many decades ago, yet somehow this is "what the media did to you all." Unless your post was sarcastic, it's worthless drivel.
I got the sugar vaccine at school in the 1960's with everyone else. Maybe some parents were against it, but I was probably too young to be aware of any controversy. People my parents age would have known kids who got polio and I'm sure were happy that there was a vaccine. The mother of a girl in grade school was in an iron lung. I had no idea that polio still occurred in other parts of the world into the '80's and beyond.
But the first polio vaccine released in 1955 had to be taken off the market for 5 years, it had a nasty habit of killing people.
@@johnharris6655 And the scientists learned from that mistake. Your point (other than casting doubt on vaccines)?
@@johnharris6655 The science and technology of that time was NOTHING like what we have now. The people who made the first polio vaccines were trying to help and they made mistakes and then the scientific community learned from those mistakes.
Would you prefer we live in world where polio is still a problem? I have suspicion you want to live in world where covid never seems to disappear the same way polio and smallpox has. I think it's people like you who will guarantee that we have covid forever because idiots don't get the vaccine.
@@johnharris6655 A nasty habit of killing people? You mean viruses?
@@patdohrety2940 We will Always have Covid. It has been around a long time it is actually Called Covid-Sars. Smallpox and Polio are still out there, so is Swine Flu, Spanish Flu, Asian Flu and other bugs. They never developed a vaccine for Spanish Flu, people got immunity and it went away. People get flu shots every year yet people get the flu. The difference those viruses were not used as an excuse to push a political agenda and expand the power of one party. When the first polio vaccines were having adverse reaction, there was no attempt to censor any one who reported that. The Media back then was nothing like we have now, back then the media reported the news, not concealed it. As for science getting better then why did Johnson and Johnson need to fix their vaccine because it was causing Myocarditis.
As someone whose mother contracted polio I cannot say how important vaccines are. It is a terrible disease with lifelong consequences
Joni MItchell had a health scare not too long ago, and it was attributed to polio that she had as a child.
Yes .
My mother was as victim of polio, Scoliosis. Seems like the modern COVID vaccines are political.
My mom too.
My mother suffered from polio in her childhood (early 60s in Spain)... and a vaccine would have spared her from painful surgeries on her feet that still today hurt her.
Okay
@@lawngnome777 It's a live attenuated version which is incapable of causing severe complications, including paralysis.
@@lawngnome777 No one cares about your anti-Vax bs.
My grandmother got polio during an outbreak in the 50s, after the vaccine roll out. They wouldn't vaccinate a pregnant woman. Conveniently my uncle was born with antibodies and didn't get sick himself. Seeing her live with the consequences of this disease has ensured our family is very pro vaccine.
Sigh, Nowadays they realise that that's a twofer. While some vaccines use a live ("attenuated") virus and are dubious a completely dead virus is not a significant risk.
@@boring7823 I was pleased they were encouraging pregnant women to vaccinate with this pandemic. Fetal health is important but the mother's health should really be prioritized. My grandmother did better than many with polio but she was still disabled by it and had the joy of caring for a newborn while still ill
I'm from Pittsburgh, PA and went to a branch campus of University of Pittsburgh. We do love Dr Salk
Dr Salk never made a dime on the vaccine... he considered it to import to not share it with the world. I real humanitarian!
This is the sort of good news story everyone should know.
One of the kindest people in the world, my aunt....got Polio at 17 years old, putting her in an iron lung for months and a wheelchair for life....all from Polio. YET it seemed to give her an unbreakable spirit. Understanding, kindness, courage, love, and how to fight perceived adversities were, just to mention a few were things I learned from her. Blessed are those who fought the good fight against this scourge. Get video, Simon.....
My mother was one of those who got polio from the vaccine. The infection in her shoulders and subsequent surgeries has lefty her partially crippled since she was 14 years old.
Two things to note: 1) she's never been bitter it used it a a crutch. In fact she has told me she would do it again since polio was too dangerous not to. 2) she was vaccine hesitant with COVID for obvious reasons. It took a couple of weeks of soul searching but she got the poke.
@@Cneq Nothing about that story points to an ignorant person. She sounds like a logical person that weighs risks and benefits. You my friend, are the one spitting ignorance.
maybe that time your mom had some immune problem, but that my guesses as the medical technology that timenot as good as now, including screening and etc... I feel sorry for that, still but totally applaud your mom that she still will take another jab because she able weigh the risk and benefit. she event take the covid ones too... I pray she will live long
Basil O'Connor should be mentioned. He revolutionized charity fundraising with the March of Dimes that funded both of the original US vaccines, cutting years off of the research.
If the internet was around back then Polio would have never been eradicated...
No, information about the first Salk Vaccine would have been branded Misinformation and banned and they would not have developed a safer vaccine.
True. It's hard to mobilise to defeat a virus when you have so many dumbasses who take advanced science for granted.
the thing is about disease is that people who refuse the cure don't stay in the gene pool long.
@@HarryNicNicholas this is not a cure. Why are vaccinated people getting sick. Those of us who get this have natural immunity
@@ajstevens1652 Advanced science once said the Sun went around the Earth
"Let's not get preachy." Preach, brother. Preach!
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My aunt contracted polio from a bottled Coke in San Luis, Mexico back in the 1960s. She has a limp still to this day but doctors told her that she got really lucky as she had just gotten a polio booster a month prior to her getting the vaccine.
It's a damn shame that people forget how things like this weren't all that long ago
Don't forget the smallpox eradication effort... That one was truly successful.
He already did a video on that as well
I’m curious what your definition of truly successful is? I had to have the vaccine when I went to Iraq, which to me says small pox is still around.
@@flatbedtruckergaming2974 it's not, it's always recommended to have such a vaccine.
If you go to Iraq now you don't need the smallpox vaccine either
@@flatbedtruckergaming2974 That was a result of bad policy making and post 9/11 feamongering from disinformation that Iraq could weaponize smallpox. Totally impossible of course and Smallpox only exists then and now inside laboratory vaults in the US and Russia.
@@flatbedtruckergaming2974 if you went to Iraq as part of the military, then you got a whole lot of vaccines that the rest of us don't because of 1: lack of proper sanitation and 2: the military is always worried about bio weapons
Jonas Salk and Norman Borlaug are to date possibly the greatest men who have ever lived - fight me
Jefferson stopped the USA from being a implicit monarchy
Eduard Jenner, John Snow maybe saved more people.
Salk's vaccine killed and gave people polio and the US Surgeon General ordered it pulled off the market for 5 years. The Oral vaccine that most people took was developed by Albert Sabin and replace the Salk Injection vaccine. So Sabin is probably greater than Salk.
Some dude named Jesus.
@@johnharris6655 a footballer?
My aunt: Vaccines don't work
Me: Really? Polio? Smallpox? MMR? How do you explain those?
My aunt: 🦗...............
I live in the US, so it’s very unlikely that I’ll ever run into a case of Polio, but I still pulled up my vaccination records to make sure I’m vaccinated
You are a good guy.
As a nurse who has taken care of the elderly, I have seen cases of post-polio syndrome. It can be devastating. Thank goodness neither I nor my descendants have to deal with that. Can you imagine thinking you have lived through and conquered a disease, to have to deal with it again in your old age?
In the early 60’s we were excited and relieved to finally get a vaccine for polio. Do you remember small pox? Me neither. It was eradicated by a vaccine.
Hey, Americans miss those diseases, so we're gonna bring them all back! Starting with Tennessee, who said no more vaccinations of any kind for anyone. Woooo!
@@hannahpumpkins4359 Wooh-wooh! Go Tennessee! They want to unseat Alabama as the stupidest state in the USA.
That will be a hard fought battle but they are up for it!
Vaccines are good .
1:10 - Chapter 1 - Poliovirus
2:25 - Chapter 2 - Dawn of the 20th century
3:50 - Chapter 3 - Early epidemics
5:15 - Chapter 4 - Worldwide spread
6:05 - Chapter 5 - Vaccines
10:30 - Chapter 6 - 1988
13:50 - Chapter 7 - Almost there
When will humans get wise enough to spend their money and resources on health and education instead of war and killing each other?
Going by Star Trek we've got three centuries yet. And that's optimistic.
@@keyholes No, not even Star Trek. The amount of war and killing each other that occurs throughout the Trek galaxy is no less boggling than it is in the real world today. Just because the Federation isn't actively tearing itself apart (and there are still a number of instances on the show of _Federation_ leaders getting wildly out of hand, as well as failed Federation policies leading to tragedy and armed resistance) doesn't stop the Klingons, Cardassians, Borg... not to mention the myriad NON-Federation worlds in the grip of dictatorships, wars, class struggles, apocalyptic revolutions...
We could've been centuries ahead of where we are socially and technologically if it weren't for endless, needless wars.
It is unfortunate that you did not the work Rotary International has done with the Gates Foundation in eliminating Polio. Around 1984-1985 Rotary International adopted the elimination of Polio worldwide. The term Polio Plus was coined in 1988 when the World Health Organization joined Rotary International in the fight against polio. The Gates Foundation joined with Rotary about ten years ago. There were around four to five countries with active polio.
I was a Rotarian and I remember those times!
My grandma helped vaccinate for polio in the 60s. When she did her nursing residency in the 70s she worked on the tuberculosis floor because no one wanted to.
Not all heroes wear capes :)
When did saying talk to your doctor become a bad thing?
No real doctor advises against vaccinations.
@@lawngnome777 yeah, they did indeed.
So why do you think vaccinations are bad? Those 2 things are entirely different issues with entirely different causes.
You can't just throw anything in and expect it to make sense for your argument
When it became the slogan of pharmaceuticals companies; only USA and NZ allow prescription advertising, and it takes thousands of colonial hours per year from physicians having conversations with patients about medications which have no bearing on their health conditions or status. Talk to your doctor about your personal physical concerns, and your interactions will be fruitful toward keeping your wellness.
@@lawngnome777 Erm, it's not the 50s any more. Science has moved on a little...
When people started to read to much Facebook and Twitter right wing nut jobs bullshit
I lost my sister to polio over a decade before I was born. I know her only through a visit to her grave and an oil painting that my parents commissioned that is on my parents’ living room wall. That painting was made from a photo of her at 3 years old.
Simon, YOU ARE MY MOST FAVOURITE TH-cam CELEBRITY! I COULD WATCH EACH OF YOUR VIDEOS AT LEAST 32 TIMES, EASILY!!
Never stop making videos. You're literally one of the coolest people I know! OK, I only know about 11. But you are deffo one of the coolest. I love your channel
It was cery common to see people who were crippled by Polio when I was young.
My main argument for vaccines is I have never had polio. Great video Simon.
Or smallpox
Or measles
How many vaccinated people have gotten covid 19?
@@joecary3586 I mean the number is changing pretty fast but right now only a little over half of America is fully vaccinated for covid compared to over 90% for measles
Thanks again Simon. An just wanted to say love the shirts we bought helps spread the word an I've actually turning 6 or 7 friends on to your awesome show in the last few weeks. Been having discussions about it!
Good overview, but glosses over, in particular, some of the "last inch" problems. Most notably, cVDPV -- circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus. It's the reason Type 2 vaccines were withdrawn, except in response to outbreaks, a few years ago, and it's the reason there's a switch going on from OPV (oral polio vaccine) to IPV (inactivated/intravenous polio vaccine) and why there's a newer generation of IPV in development, since the existing IPV requires cold storage. I think -- I've been following less closely in the last year or so. But lately, there have been far more cases of cVDPV than WPV (wild poliovirus).
To add to that "last inch": Covid-19 logistic problems have delayed preventitive Unicef vaccination programs in countries where the virus has only recently been eradicated. The effects remain to be seen, but it seems logical more flare-ups will occur and it will take some time again to get the virus completely under control.
OK, to correct myself, having just read the latest IMB (independent monitoring board) report -- it's not a new IPV, it's a new OPV, but one that is supposed to be less likely to lead to cVDPV, and it is already in the process of being rolled out.
yes sadly in Poland and the Ukraine there's been about a half-dozen cases this year, there's a little concern that the immunity may dip just enough to make it a problem again
The photo supposed to be of Erwin Popper is actually a photo of Erwin Schrödinger.
What a catty reply....
Maybe it's both, at all times, until you observe it
this comment leaves me feeling boxed in.
@@user-bw5xk9xv3w Dammit Google, you betrayed me.
@@megaprojects9649 lol
Anyone who's interested in the real history of polio, and the events surrounding its origins should check out the book "The Moth in the Iron Lung". Fascinating. Eye opening.
Great video as always, but please Simon and crew, increase the volume! Megaprojects and a few others require me to max out my phone and I still need closed captions for what I miss.
Can you do a video about the discovery of Prion-diseases? Like Kuru, etc.. Thank you
I thought he already did an episode on BSE?
@@repubblesmcglonky8990 They did, but I would wish for a video about the origins of the disease (kuru), how it works, how it could be weaponized, 100% fatality, and other facts. Mostly about the discovery, people involved in it
And also the research, and the effects of the disease
@@danielladwein2570 It's developed from Funerary Cannibalism, particularly of the Brain among the Polynesian, Australasian or Phillipine Tribes (can't remember which) and I think it (the Prions) eat the Brain hence the Diagnosis "Spongiform" based on how Encephalopathies make the Brain in a CATSCAN (I think?) Look like a Sponge, Kuru is also referred to "The Laughing Disease" since it compels the host to Laugh, I don't think it can be conventionally weaponised via Water, Transmission, Air, Poisoning etc. most likely through contaminated food like in the Cow Meat Scandal in the U.K years ago....
@@repubblesmcglonky8990
It's the Fore people in Papua New Guinea who suffer from kuru.
Sometimes people need to be reminded of such stories. Especially in times such as now. Thank you for this story.
Overcoming COVID is determined by two factors: 1) How dense the population is. 2) How dense the population is.
I love how you're using both meanings of dense in this. Cause yeah its going to take a bit to get this completely under control world wide. I'm optimistic that we will get there within a couple years hopefully less though
@@avalanche1990 Once all the Deplorables die, then we will be free from COVID, Polio, and all other diseases with a vaccination. Perhaps we should accelerate the effort.
Mega Project suggestions: Benban Solar Park, Aswan High Dam, Bar Lev Line and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
Medical research now shows that FDR probably did not have Polio, but rather Guillain-Barré Syndrome. Check Wikipedia.
While the preponderance of evidence does support that, Wikipedia isn't a credible source.
@@owenshebbeare2999 eh, at this point it is considered a good secondary source to find good primary sources. Even at collegiate level. Most of my professors and Research heads i've spoken to have said to go to wikipedia in the same way we go to encyclopedias
I'm only 37 yet I knew people with either experience of the iron lung or the leg atrophy from polio.
When my school offered the Sabin teaspoon we rushed to stand in line to take it. (🤢 Fyi)
I started Secondary School in the UK in 1981 and one of my school mates had left arm paralysis due to Polio. His arm was permanently stuck in a raised position.
Probably the most famous in the UK that suffered from Polio and has had lifelong paralytic effects is Mary Berry.
If he would have used fruit juice and essential oils he could have gotten rid of the polio in 2 days. But he probably went to a doctor, and everyone knows doctors are part of the Illuminati and they just exist to kill people slowly.
I know only one single case in my region. His parents were dead against vaccinations. He’s about my age and he got lucky, he’s only limping severely and his back is curved.
@@lawngnome777 Dead wrong dude. Read the scientific papers on the subject, not the “news” headlines.
@@lawngnome777 “the science the science including gain of function or?” What’s that supposed to mean dude? Your ramblings are just as incoherent as your knowledge on the polio vaccines.
@@lawngnome777 There’s no cancer found in any vaccine. Come on dude, I don’t blame you or anyone for not understanding the meaning of scientific studies, but pretending to know anything about them is just being stupid and dishonest. Come back once you’ve got a medical degree.
@@lawngnome777 Did you bother to actually read the information in that link of yours? I’m guessing you didn’t, otherwise you would be using it as an example of bad science. Widely used medications being revoked after years because of just a few adverse reactions? That’s a perfect example for how careful the medical industry is being monitored.
@@lawngnome777 Btw, why are you searching for information on these sites? Why not take a look at actual scientific papers?
Excellent video, Simon. Well done!
The March of Dimes was only one entity fighting polio with money. The Kosair Shriners -at least in Kentucky-created a hospital for polio - stricken children: the Kosair Children's Hospital. This was the hospital that helped my dad.
At that time, children's possessions and clothing were burned to prevent polio spread. Dad and other children were transported between hospitals with only a sheet to cover them.
My dad told me of this and how a nun nurse whipped off their sheet and then exclaimed, "Now they're sending them over like Adam!"
My Grandmother died in 2000 from polio coming back in her system. She had it when she was 18.
As a six-year old in 1960, I can still remember the public-service announcement jingles on TV, singing "Don't forget Sabin on Sunday." sure enough, on Sunday the whole family walked to a nearby elementary school, and we each drank maybe a teaspoonful of pink liquid from a paper cup.
Timely Simon. Very timely. 🖖
Great info. My parents greatly feared polio, now I know why.
You missed mentioning (directly) the part about Rotary International raising almost $2 billion dollars for the fight and immunizing 2.5 billion children in 122 countries over the last 30 years. How does that get left out? Right now there are over 1 million Rotarians who's #1 focus is the eradication of Polio. If you want to blow people's minds, do an episode on Rotary International. Still, this was a great story of human effort, and Simon is just an amazing communicator. Cheers to a better world!
The Crusade for Children, Kosair Shriners, and I'm sure many philanthropic organizations.
Oh how the mighty have fallen ... What has humanity come to that so many of us still choose to believe fiction over facts?
Meaning….?
You realize your statement (without further contextualization) argues both sides of any argument…which fictions?
@@thefourshowflip I did accidentally manage to make a completely neutral sentence didn't I 😂
@@Goodman-4525
A teency bit 🤏. Lol.
Blame twitter Facebook and right wing nut jobs
@@KingJohnMichael
For….?
Still coming up with amazing content!!!
My father suffered from this God awful virus. For those who were infected and lived it plagued them all their lives. As they get older the effects come back known as post polio syndrome. I thank all the doctor's, scientist, health care workers, and organizations that are trying to end this virus. Most of us born in the 70's and after will never have to go through that horrible experience. Thank you science.
One of my much older and much loved first cousins had it as a child and has always struggled with his left arm and leg that I can remember. My Mom has the polio vaccine scar and told me his story when explaining it to me as a child.
Nice to see the Canadiens secure the win. Go Habs! (circa 0:41)
A throwback to their last stanley cup, 700 years ago
@@seansopata5121 It may have been 750... 😭
Ain't that Erwin Schrödinger instead of Erwin Popper or is that just me?
Where’s his cat?
See, this is why i appreciate megaprojects and Simons research. The objectivity of this work is great, goes over the benefits, the timeline, the controversies which lead to, understandable hesitations... Every aspect he mentions here is objective and understandable to the comprehensive person. Need more of that level of thinking and understanding today.
The more I learn about humanity's success story with vaccines, the more I despair about anti vaxxers. If they can't be rational about something so obvious as vaccines, how are we gonna tackle the huge stuff ahead of us, like climate change, that also requires a team effort, but is much more complex, long term and threatening?
Noone should ever call themselves " the science". As we have learned, science evolves and is never truly settled.
I saw a political cartoon, where a couple are watching the news and one tuns to the other says, “If Fox News had existed when polio first came out, we’d still be fighting it to this day…” 🙄
and yet when Trump got the vaccine it was good but when Biden became president it was bad.
@@gold-818 You mean the vaccine to a pandemic he called a hoax? Also didn't he go to the hospital when he suspiciously got very sick, and was given the top of the line drugs to help...all for something he called a hoax? Or is it microchips they're injecting us with instead of a vaccine? =P
@@padawanmage71 oh of course and operation warp speed was amazing to get the vaccines rolled out as quickly as possible but wait it's Biden's vaccine so I'm not taking it 🤦♂️
Fox News is a cancer
Need a vaccine for that.
Ain't that the truth
The HMS Elizabeth would be a great video , love to see that beast
Brilliant eye opening video.!!
When put in the grand scheme of things!!
Top notch research and video 👌👍
Auntie francis died of polio back in i think 1936. We were told she was a very happy girl, there is a picture of her in an iron lung. But we were not allowed to talk about her. I wish i could have met her.
Do a video on the Wright Brothers and the Wright Flyer!
Has done it on Biographics a year ago
I remember this vaccine drops had a sweet taste, and I asked polio workers to give me some more.
Interesting. I remember them being bitter. I got a booster in 2000 when I was 18
Perspective is interesting to ponder. I have no ability to listen to this without the lens of everything related to covid-19. I was just listening to the Megaprojects on rebuilding Japan and thinking about the lenses many of those important decisions were made. Specifically, a very interesting decision to think about in that vein was Macarthur's to not try the emperor (or at least not execute him).
"Vaccines" ~ Simon Whistler saying something so brave yet so controversial
There is zero analogy between a mild respiratory virus like “ COVID” ( most people who contract it don’t know it ) and the devastation to otherwise healthy people caused by polio .
@@jayedwards1205 There is a whole area of study into what you just mentioned: contemporary belief, usually in ignorance, that today's (insert disaster) is unprecedented. COVID definitely isn't as bad as Polio, smallpox or the "Spanish Influenza", true.
@@jayedwards1205 Most of the people who have died from Covid were not senior citizens. I wouldn't consider long term health issues caused by Covid minor.
@@owenshebbeare2999 Its severity shouldn't really matter, its still more people dying.
@@jayedwards1205 except some get very sick and suffocate to death in the ICU, so it's not a "mild" result for them. Disease downplaying is mean spirited. Most people who got polio didn't have a severe case either, but for those who did, it was life changing at the least.
Those who have enjoyed the protection of herd immunity have no notion of the alarming reality (smallpox, polio, etc) before vaccination rendered their childhoods safe.
Great video! Thank you
Hi Simon In July 2021 on ABC news in Australia there were cases of polio reported in Papua New Guinea.
Imagine if we had something like that now, coronavirus wouldn't stand a chance! Unfortunately we don't "work together" anymore, but a human can dream, right fellow humans?
well we do work together when it comes to science, sadly people like 45 perpetuate stereotyping and for some reason (narcissism i suspect) like to crap on good ideas. with covid it's been individuals who have divided the populace, not so international conflicts. just look at polio and the countries that have all accepted the vaccine. these days it's folks like the catholic church who are thwarting science (with their condemnation of condoms).
Growing up I had an aunt (much older than my father or uncle) who had contracted polio as a child. She was for decades my only real connection to the disease other than historical films in black and white. That's how effective the vaccine was and is. Because of those vaccines which my father and uncle received in the late 1950s my grandparents didn't have to worry about their boys getting polio. Because of the widespread distribution in the west I haven't had to think about polio at all. I am thankful for the vaccines then and now, even if others aren't.
Iremember having the sugar cube in the late 70s and early 80s but I'd not noticed that it had gone away since then.
I think a cool Megaproject would be the research and writing of "The Baroque Cycle" by Neal Stephenson. I re-read it recently. Considering it is fiction it is astounding how much information is packed into it. It might be a different take on what a Megaproject is but I think an interesting one.
Yeah.... My Grandma has Polio in the early 50s. She was lucky, only one leg was affected. Wasn't to bad until she had a stroke, that affected the opposite side.
Suggestion for a very overlooked mega-problem solution (should fit here very well); Saving the World from Starvation.
When the world was running out of bat guano for fertilizer and with a growing population therefore soon to starve, the invention of the process to make ammonia from the sir by Haber and Bosch basically saved the future as we now know it.
In August 1982 at age 12 I avoided a scheduled polio jab at school by by own personal choice. In 2021I subistuted the long lost polio jab for two Covid jabs in May and August. To avoid the polio jab I ran across a six lanes road in a straight in continuous motion and got hit by a car.
would you do videos on the Confederation Bridge and SNOLAB please?
Thank science for the progress in medicine and vaccines!
Got my first corona shot a few hours ago! :)
Anything to NOT get sick again!
Good job. I’ve got both doses. Hope you won’t get any of the (rather rare) ill effects, I didn’t notice anything.
@@lawngnome777 if you actually read the article you linked you'd actually see what it's about.
The reason the vaccine causes an outbreak is because they can't reach enough children in time, because the country is at war.
The immunity of less than 80% of a population can cause the virus to mutate and spread more quickly, and it can in rare cases also spread to already immunized people. Because it's a new strain
Got both. Pfizer. No problems.
@@lawngnome777 stop repeating yourself and read the responses you've already gotten elsewhere
seriously under rated achievement
Don't be shy, Simon! You're a very well informed, intelligent man and a belovèd teacher of sorts. Who cares if the crazies come out; debunk, debunk, debunk!!
Thank you for this Simon, enlighten the people !
Uhh Simon isn’t that a picture of Erwin Schrodinger at 4:43 not Erwin Popper?
Scary stuff... never had my polio shot!
Bagger 293 please! I would love to have a video on the largest land vehicle ever!
This was back when the human race actually cared about human beings.
History books would strongly disagree. The Cold War was at it's peak and other atrocities were happening around the world. This was right after the two world wars. Considering those facts today is a bit better, but still with lots of downsides. The human race has always found ways to doom itself.
well these days anyone can spread propagandane, back then you had to want to spend a fortune on pamphlets if you wanted to reach a big audience.
More people died from cold war then world war
When vaccines are controversial, you've lost the plot.
I've heard the "sanitation" theory for the spread of Polio before. I think it's also possible the virus just evolved.
When I was little they smeared some pink stuff on a sugar cube and that was that.
In 2021 I had my two shots and would like to consider the matter closed, but it's more complicated now.
Other than polio, most of the vaccines I received as a kid required booster shots at some point. The current flu vaccines need an update every year. The typhoid shot I got for going overseas was only good for 5 years. Yes indeed, it is very complicated. I trust my doctor to inform me what to do. Not some politician or a random loud mouth on the internet. I guess I’m saying I agree with you… 🙂
Finland had zero cases from 1960 to 1985. A small epidemic hit in 1985 and entire population was vaccinated then. My home city vaccinated everyone in 24 hours.
There are cases only today in Australia where like the polio cases the people are locked in their houses (unit block or apartment building) and it has armed guards surrounding so they can not leave it’s all over the news.
Fingers crossed we get this under wraps soon.
Great video Simon! Should be mandatory for some to watch.
Carlin got it right...our immune system needs practice!
You take your medical advice from a comedian? Maybe you should take your jokes from them and medical advice from your doctor
Hey Simon did you know about the aircraft submarine? just read about it its right up your ally would love to see you do a video on it. thanks for your hard work love this channel it's one of my highlights weekly.
Please do a mega project on the Airbus A-380 jumbo jet
A-10 Warthog/Thunderbolt II video please?
I am 67, and to this day ( 60+ years ago ), I can still see the 'scar' where I got the polio vaccine.
More people need to see this video
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Still have to make sure all vaccines are vetted and have proper testing time. They are fantastic but if those aren't done, then, just like anything, people will lose confidence. Great point about what people can do when they collaborate and work together.