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Barry Kissane's avatar

I have now tried twice to sign this declaration, and each time it doesn't work: the confirmation email is met with the message: "Sorry! Invalid Confirmation URL"

I realise that this is not your website, Rebekah, but thought I ought report the problem in case others are having it also. I'd appreciate it being passed on.

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I accidentally deleted a chunk of my emails that contained Rebekah's reference to Mitch McConnell's recent comments on the polio vaccine but would like to respond to it here.

Mitch is purported to have said that he has observed, during the course of his life, a large number of lives saved by the polio vaccine.

I find this somewhat absurd. I mean, how does one OBSERVE a vaccine saving a life?

Next, I am trying to reconcile this with the put view that polio was the result of a toxin (DDT, perhaps) penetrating the spinal columns of infants through the intestinal wall, or some such ... not a 'virus'. Are the people who expound such conjectures deluded fools or deceivers?

Rebekah writes that the only 'polio' outbreaks we have had are due to the vaccine. Again, this does not sit well with the toxin thesis.

Lets assume there is such a thing as a 'polio virus' though. There are people who'd respond to Rebekah that these cases are inevitable collateral damage in the fight against polio, that they are very small in number compared to the number of vaccines issued and that the harms associated with the same are vastly outweighed by the benefits of the 'vaccine'.

Do viruses exist per se? Can we 'catch' (as in, contract from exposure to other people) colds or flus?

LINS

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