Polio's back

[Alberon]

The Polio virus has been detected in London's sewage. Parents are urged to make sure their children are vaccinated.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61896411

We really are turning the clock back to Dickensian times, aren't we? I think we only need the work houses to be reinstated and we're there.

[shiftwork2]

This might tempt Blodwyn back.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

we wouldnt need expensive vaccines and water purification if lazy people and chuds would just install the PolioWatch app on their phones like good citizens

[shoulders]

In a very small number of cases, thought to be between one in 100 and one in 1,000, the polio virus attacks the nerves in the spine and base of the brain.

How the fuck is that a very small number of cases.

[Mrs Wogans lemon drizzle]

I think we only need the work houses to be reinstated and we're there.

We already have, they are known as call centres.

[Butchers Blind]

Johnson's Britain.

[shiftwork2]

How the fuck is that a very small number of cases.

0.001 - 0.01.  They are the smallest numbers.  Anything smaller and you'd never find them.

[idunnosomename]

hiya polio mate

[Zetetic]

I think we only need the work houses to be reinstated and we're there.

This would be a significant improvement in housing and mental health policy, so I think it's unlikely we're going to see it.

[Zetetic]

We already have, they are known as call centres.

Call centres don't offer shelter. (If anything they're an obvious example of a job where people will be expected to shoulder the costs of the infrastructure to do the job as well as stay alive.)

[Goldentony]

fucking get in

[Gurke and Hare]

Has monkeypox been and gone then?

[McDead]

Backstreet Boys consider timely rewrite

[David Pielingtonburygrot]

It'll be garlic bread next

[Norton Canes]

Liked Gangsta's Paradise

[curiousoranges]

I prefer Mentos.

[Brundle-Fly]

21st century pop is crying out for a new Ian Dury. Bring it on, I say.

[Martin Van Buren Stan]

The Polio virus has been detected in London's sewage. Parents are urged to make sure their children are vaccinated.

Wouldn't it be better to stop letting their kids play in the sewer?

[Poobum]

Marco!

[robhug]

Delighted to see Polio back

[boki]

Hello Polios reading this, I'm cutting back on the booze and turning my life around.

[Dex Sawash]

[tag] in <something polio related that rhymes with pog> form [/tag]

[idunnosomename]

The disease with the holio

[Kankurette]

I am the Great Cornpolio! I need a cane for my legs!

[Video Game Fan 2000]

i bet lazy chavs will be queuing up to spend time lazing in a metal tube instead of working, looking at their phones

[FalknerHinton]

Has monkeypox been and gone then?

No, we're on for the monkey pox/omicron/polio super-bastard just in time for Christmas!

[Butchers Blind]

Like Kate Bush being back in the charts, a lot of the youth of today probably don't know about it so it's nice to see it being rediscovered.

[Mr_Simnock]

[tag] in <something polio related that rhymes with pog> form [/tag]

It's back! In bog form

[bushwick]

back to the diseased sunfaded polyester unrest of the bleeding 70s guv! Texan bars, widespread sexual harassment, Page 3 and minstrel shows next to return.

[dissolute ocelot]

21st century pop is crying out for a new Ian Dury. Bring it on, I say.

A new Franklin Roosevelt would be OK too. Even another Neil Young. Such a nice disease, made lots of young people stay indoors and read books, although I guess these days they'd all be on their iPhones instead. Hey, conspiracy theory, Apple put polio in my poo!