Polio survivor: 'I know from experience' what happens without vaccination | Sky News Australia

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A Melbourne polio survivor is furious many people are hesitant about having the COVID-19 vaccine after he contracted the disease at just two years old in 1953, three years before the Salk vaccine was made available.

Geoff O’Brien had to wear metal callipers to support his legs and also wore plaster casts at night until he was 12 years old. More than 65 years later he is still suffering from post-polio symptoms and says high vaccination rates eradicated the disease.

“People in their 30s, 40s, whatever, just don’t understand what it’s like to go through an epidemic … people were in a panic state in the early ‘50s, keeping children out of school, out of swimming pools,” he told Sky News. “It’s the same as it is today but as I say if it weren’t for the polio vaccine we’d be in dire straits.”

 

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I think he should just, get over it.

Cause taking a bio weapon to destroy humanity is a problem

Was the polio vaccine fully tested? Well I definitely know the COVID vaccine will get its full safety data in 2024. Should we trust it? I think not.

This ain’t polio 🤦‍♂️

Who gives a shit?

I’m old enough to remember the Cutter debacle. I’ll wait for the testing to be completed.

Poor comparison, completely different disease!! Just playing on public emotion to coerce them into taking something experimental and unapproved

Issue isnt Vaccines its how rushed this one has been and the outcomes will not be known for decades

'One of these things is not like the other' Piss Off.

This 'survivor' also seems to equate vaccines of the past with the anti-covid version, which are entirely different types of vaccines. We're not all that bovine.

Let him be furious. We don't owe him anything. Polio is spread by the fecal-oral route. Wash your hands, no vaccination needed.

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