Thank you for the link to the polio archive. This was a post that had made a huge impression on me - and I could not remember where I had read it. Thanks.
There was a mum on this board who was at a Sherri Tenpenny lecture and there was a figure given of 65 000 + people with acute flaccid paralysis and only 2% of this number tested positive for polio virus. I would love to know where and when this figure comes from. It truly is fascinating.
About polio being a lie. I am guessing that not every single case of acute flaccid paralysis can be attributed to one of the three polio viruses (all three are able to cause paralysis from what I remember). I am guessing that the picture is not nearly as clear as people who lived through the 1950's were told it was and obviously not nearly as clear as the medical establishment would like us to believe. There are things that I would love to know, and maybe one day will find out. Like if Sister Kenny's treatment worked for CNS poisoning in the same way that it worked for polio affecting the CNS. (As on OT having treated people with paralysis, I am pretty sure it is a lower motor neuron lesion - unlike CP and stroke. I am wondering if this is the same for pesticide poisoning? Upper or lower motor neuron lesion. This is significant in how to treat the flaccidity or spasticity).
Also having read up a bit more about Sister Kenny, it makes sense that her approach worked so well as she kept people out of braces (something that until today, not every doctor, nurse, OT and PT necessarily do). And that many of the crippling affects could have even been attributed to the braces. I had always wondered what her treatment had been, and it is very reassuring to know how simple it is (and how familiar to me) I might never know how physical therapy would be different for CNS poisoning or polio. I have so much to read up on now, and so little time
Back to polio being a lie. There is such a thing as polio virus. It has been identified as creating paralysis. I guess the lie could be that the sheer numbers in the 1940's and 50's cannot be explained by the polio virus itself. Although I do imagine that most communities in the world were in huge disarray after WWII..... But it does stand out that it was known to be disease of the Developed World in the 40's and 50's.
My head is just spinning. What does make sense is that the OPV would work to provide immunity and that the OPV could actually be creating more problems than it solves in terms of spreading polio in communities with poor hygiene.
Anyway, that is my little summary for now. Now I am getting anxious about airplanes that I have flown on where the flight ends with the air hostess squirting something down the isles before everyone gets off and you are told "oh it's nothing, just mandatory before everyone disembarks" Not sure how I will handle this if it happens to me again.
As I talk to people I realize just how threatening it is to even question the firm belief that polio is this hugely dangerous disease that was contained thanks to vaccine and to this day we have almost successfully eliminated it from planet earth.
It has the capacity to ignite hysteria in people who are not normally hysteric.
And what is with the picture of Egyptian hieroglyphs showing polio?
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