BUT WHAT ABOUT POLIO?
This is the question we always hear. First, it’s important to note that Polio is a very common virus, much like a cold or flu virus. Most Americans had/have the polio virus in our bodies at some point, although we are never tested for it unless we have paralysis. We all have dozens of different viruses in our system at one time because that is how nature keeps our immune systems stimulated.
The paralysis that was blamed on the poliovirus in the 1940s and 50s was actually due to the widespread chemical/pesticide spraying of DDT, a highly toxic (now banned) pesticide.
But the US government and health departments, along with chemical companies, were encouraging the spraying of DDT on the American public. Mass DDT spraying campaigns took place on beaches, aerially over swimming pools and parks — especially during the summer months (aka farming season). Coincidentally most “polio” paralysis cases happened during the summer months and in children. Parents were even encouraged to spray their children directly with the highly toxic chemical as well as put it in baths and other places where children had direct contact with DDT.
In the mid-1940s, scientists began to alert the government and Congress that DDT spraying was causing a huge increase in paralysis and nervous system damage. But the US government, on the back of World War Two, couldn’t admit their mistake — a mistake that would have cost them MILLIONS in damages through lawsuits from those affected.
Someone then had the brilliant idea to quietly start exporting DDT instead of spraying Americans, slowly ban DDT as not to cause alarm and promote a “solution” in the form of the polio vaccine.
It’s one of the most shocking and most commonly believed medical myths, which is still regularly repeated on television, in history books and by an unaware public that never bothers to look beyond the charade.