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It has been a while since I read it so I may get some details slightly incorrect, but, in the book, The Moth in the Iron Lung, the author was careful to show how separate outbreaks of polio paralysis at different time periods had different manifestations. There were different industrial chemicals in widespread use during certain periods such as iirc lead and copper arsenate to fight moths before the era of DDT.

The outbreaks of polio almost always came not in the 'flu season' but in late summer, when fruit crops were harvested. The outbreaks never followed any epidemiological model and could strike only one member of a family or several with no apparent reason. I found that book to present compelling evidence that polio was always a result of chemical exposure.

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Nice job, Sarah. I’ve been recording instances like this too in movies and especially Netflix shows for a while now. The predictive programming is everywhere!

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