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Here we go again.  POLIO IS BACK screams today's headlines.

Read the small print and you'll find that "Typically tests on UK sewage pick up a number of unrelated samples of poliovirus each year".

In other words, it's never been away . . .

 

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2 hours ago, benchwarmer said:

Here we go again.  POLIO IS BACK screams today's headlines.

Read the small print and you'll find that "Typically tests on UK sewage pick up a number of unrelated samples of poliovirus each year".

In other words, it's never been away . . .

 

I guess we could end up with an authentic cover version of Spasticus Autisticus at some point soon then.

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3 hours ago, benchwarmer said:

Here we go again.  POLIO IS BACK screams today's headlines.

Read the small print and you'll find that "Typically tests on UK sewage pick up a number of unrelated samples of poliovirus each year".

In other words, it's never been away . . .

 

News outlet said someone had said it was probably from someone who had visited a country where polio was still active. Not too many countries with it anymore but war torn nations like Syria still have it.

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I might be getting mixed up with something else but hasn’t polio made a comeback recently in Africa? I seem to remember reading that the distrust about Covid vaccinations, coupled with the attitudes of some of the leaders of African nations about Covid, had a knock-on effect on other vaccinations, causing outbreaks.

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2 hours ago, keelansgrandad said:

News outlet said someone had said it was probably from someone who had visited a country where polio was still active. Not too many countries with it anymore but war torn nations like Syria still have it.

Other news outlets say it's probably from someone who has recently received the polio vaccine, travelled to the UK and is excreting weakened polio virus cells from the vaccine in their urine.  You pays your money and you takes your choice.

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This should be a summer of fun after two years of Covid “curbs”, but the selfish and greedy lot who only care about money keep striking.

Now we’ve got more scaremongering and it’s more Scamdemics coming our way.

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Just now, Herman said:

Is this the first benefit of brexit?

Not that as an excuse for everything that’s sh*t yet again……

Change the channel.

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5 hours ago, benchwarmer said:

Other news outlets say it's probably from someone who has recently received the polio vaccine, travelled to the UK and is excreting weakened polio virus cells from the vaccine in their urine.  You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Other news sources said it came ashore in a dinghy carried by one of our new doctors. You never know who to believe these days

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38 minutes ago, KernowCanary said:

Not that as an excuse for everything that’s sh*t yet again……

Change the channel.

😂😂 Surely you're not suggesting it should be called the 'French Channel' post-Brexit?

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14 minutes ago, Rock The Boat said:

Other news sources said it came ashore in a dinghy carried by one of our new doctors. You never know who to believe these days

Isn't that the beauty of the post-truth world pioneered by Trump and Johnson?

You can believe whatever you want to believe and people frequently do - your good self being an early adopter of Trumpian alternative facts universe.

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43 minutes ago, Rock The Boat said:

Other news sources said it came ashore in a dinghy carried by one of our new doctors. You never know who to believe these days

You're not top of the list.

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23 hours ago, Rock The Boat said:

Other news sources said it came ashore in a dinghy carried by one of our new doctors. You never know who to believe these days

Can't be true.  We have no new doctors. 

Went to the surgery yesterday for a blood test and it looked as though burglars had stripped the place.  The waiting room was like an empty warehouse except for six chairs widely spaced around the walls, which were bare of all adornment, and there was one doctor (out of eight pre-covid) on duty.  Told to wear a mask, I pointed out that they were no longer compulsory in health care settings.  The NHS is stuck in Covidland and appears unwilling or unable to move on.

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