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India-Pakistan |
The advance of polio |
2014-10-09 |
[NATION.PK] A blast in Mohmand agency killed two polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... workers and injured one more on Wednesday, the third day of Eid. No terrorist organization has grabbed credit for the attack as of yet, which is why it is still uncertain whether the polio workers were the ones being targeted. But even if no one has owned up to the attack, the bomb's close proximity to the house of the workers tell us that this was no coincidence. Over 60 polio workers have been killed since 2012, and this does not include the tally of those that died protecting the workers in similar attacks over the past two years. The highest number of refusals to vaccinate have come from the agencies that connect to the Durand Line, as do most of the attacks on polio workers. Statistics alone tell us that if an effective immunization campaign is to be carried out, it must be largely focused in the tribal agencies, or the spread of the disease will continue unmitigated. Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... brought about an increased movement of unvaccinated people from North Wazoo to the rest of the country, which means that the last three months of the year are likely to see another flurry of cases reported. The |
Posted by:Fred |
#2 Whats wrong with letting polio flourish in Pakistain? Let it run wild, until they realize whats happening (which may be never) and allow the vaccinations. |
Posted by: Mikey Hunt 2014-10-09 01:32 |
#1 Common sense doesn't seem to work. The "carrot" approach also does not seem very useful with these savages. Political correctness aside, maybe it time to use the "stick" approach. The next time a vaccination team is killed, or is denied access to a village, back off a few kilometers, and then call in an Arclight bombing mission to obliterate the village. Make sure you have a village headman from every other village in the region watching from a good vantage point. Then tell the village headmen: "We are here to eliminate polio from the earth - and your region is the last place on earth where the scourge of this disease still exists. We have two choices: 1) we can immunize all children to eliminate the disease; or 2) We can eliminate the population that might harbor the disease. So - you have two choices: Help us immunize everyone - or say goodbye to your neighbors, right before we vaporize them with a B-52 airstrike. We have another flight of bombers about six hours out. So - when we call your village's name, please answer up either "Vaccinate Us" or "Obliterate Us" - and we will take appropriate follow-up action |
Posted by: Lone Ranger 2014-10-09 00:40 |