4 January

Sometimes I think it’s complete ignorance of infectious disease history that explains what’s going on right now. Take polio, as an example. Many I ask aren’t even aware that for the majority of people who caught polio, it was a mild illness. Did we: - allow everybody to get polio, so that we could ‘live with polio’, or - did we move Heaven and Earth to stop it, because of the damage it did to some people? We know the answer. What a disgrace of a society we’ve become. I’m disgusted every day that we’re doing this, and just as disgusted that hardly anybody speaks out about it. In an average year polio killed between 50 and 100 people. We’ve lost over 2000 people with Covid, in less than 2 years.