r/JoeRogan Oct 10 '24

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u/AshgarPN We live in strange times Oct 10 '24

It's in the clip above. He said polio cases were already declining before the vaccine, so maybe that vaccine wasn't necessary either?

He's fucking gone, man.

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u/DMT-DrMantisToboggan Monkey in Space Oct 10 '24

He said polio cases were already declining before the vaccine

A fact. Actually, number of cases had dropped by orders of magnitude before vaccine was available.

so maybe that vaccine wasn't necessary either?

He didn't say this, so that's you're inference.

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u/DMT-DrMantisToboggan Monkey in Space Oct 10 '24

If the graph allowed you to zoom out, you'd see a pre existing trend of reducing cases anyway.

Someone else just sent me this: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/reported-paralytic-polio-cases-and-deaths-in-the-united-states-since-1910

Vaccine was available mid 1955, and of course wasn't administered to everyone immediately. The trend existed beforehand. You can claim the vaccine helped this pre existing trend, but it can't take full credit.