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Originally Posted by strykerg8gt
We eliminated Polio because of vaccination. There wasn't the same pushback as there is today. If there had been, it would have mutated also. Same with the flu, there's so many variations because it's been allowed to get out of control. Same will happen with Covid at this rate.
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Well, there are several reasons for that:
1) The polio vaccine wasn't a "rush job".
2) You didn't recover 100% when you were stricken.
The whole mutation thing:
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evoli...evolutionpolio