Jeff Stahler for May 09, 2021

Absolutely nothing inaccurate here

“We WANT them infected!”

The 50s were VERY different: Scientists were godlings, small pox and polio were real, personal. ln 1954, before the vaccine, my parents kept the kids home ALL FREAKING SUMMER: No swimming, no movies, only close (church) friends could come over … because we went to church and so they were in what we now call our “pod”. My mother was all over getting us vaccinated to get us OUT OF THE HOUSE.

Seventy years later, a huge number of people actually think that vaccines are bad/dangerous, and have no personal memory of the things that they are (probably) vaccinated against. I think it’s basically a social IQ test. And I think we’re failing.

Unfortunately polio does still exist in Asia. Mainly Pakistan and Afghanistan. I think I read about a volunteer that was vaccinating children in Pakistan that was killed by a man that heard that the vaccines were something the west was giving children to hurt them. More disinformation. The deadly kind.

If Faux news was around in the 1930s we’ll be living in Nazi States of America now.

What do you expect from an owner whose father hated Americans soldiers (especially Black soldiers) in Australia during WWII !

You can be sure everyone in the Fox News studio has had their shots; they just don’t want their idiot audience to get them. Then, when the falling infection numbers gets low enough, they’ll make a lot of noise about the alarmists/snowflakes/sheeple on the Left were stupid enough to fall for the Great Hoax, blah blah.

Fox News, and the people that repeat their lies like they were ’God’s Truth’.

This, I’m sorry to say, is right on the money

Simple rule of thumb… whatever FAUX Noise says, believe the opposite.

And Germany and the Nazis would have won World War II.

Victory was stolen from them. They won and then all these Soviet Divisions started showing up out of nowhere and countries like the United States who should not have been allowed to participate came in – massive fraud – bigly. The Allies cheated.

I know that it was supposedly over 10 years ago. We demand a re-re-re-re-re-count. /s

Most of our current problems can be laid at the feet of Faux News. Their business model is dependent on dividing people. They make a healthy profit by it and damn the consequences. The Republicans gleefully contribute to this division to gain and hold power. Politics are easy if you won’t govern, lie easily and have absolutely no shame.

As a species, we are capricious by nature. All Faux and other conspiracy-based media have to do is placate and promote our worst fears and they win. So, yes, polio would still be a chronic condition in 2021 if Faux News had been around in the 1950s.

Best.. and real, cartoon of the month. Well said Jeff

I’m surprised Fox News didn’t push leeches and bleeding to cure COVFEFE-45…oh wait, hydroxychloroquine….

If Fox had been around twenty years sooner, the idea that tiny little cfc’s could affect the ozone layer would have been dismissed and resisted and an effective response prevented until it was waaaay too late to avoid irreversible depletion.

Excellent point, Mr. Stahler. Growing up in a small town, I knew one young lady who was crippled by polio. Even then I wondered how a virus could ravage a body so, and didn’t understand how people could turn down a simple preventive vaccine. I think I got mine on a sugar cube. What kid would say no to that? Even now, I don’t get people who deny science in general while relying on it all damn day long.

And losing. Also, they’d never put a “helpless, wheelchair-bound cripple” in a place belonging to a healthy, indoctrinated white racist.

A recent editorial in one of my local newspapers (yes, I still get newspapers – two of them, in fact) tried to paint the corona virus response as a vast over-reaction compared to the national response to polio. Polio didn’t have any national shut-downs or quarantines. The writer was (apparently) completely ignorant of how poliomyelitis was spread. You can’t get polio from breathing the same air, bodily contact, or touching a surface touched by a victim. But all of that was left out of his “opinion” piece. It also omitted the fact that a viable vaccine all but eradicated polio in the United States. But it’s still out there, as is tuberculosis, tetanus, small pox, diphtheria, and even bubonic plague, any of which could make a comeback.

I remember clearly when the public pools closed as a precaution. I can’t imagine what it was like for my parents.

I remember in the early 1950’s when a radio station broadcast the first March of Dimes event at the school gym. People pledged money to get their kid(s) on the radio to play a musical instrument or sing a song, etc. My brother and I were in the 2nd grade and had to sing a song. We actually thought people wanted to hear us. Later realized that our family and their friends had paid money so grandma could hear us on the radio. I recall the town mayor singing a song. Some people would have paid money NOT to hear him sing.

I got my shot willingly, I had lost two friends just recently to polio!

How many Americans has Fox killed with lies about the deadly covid virus.

Because of Fox people refuse to get masks or shots and they are keeping the USA shut down.

Right wingers make our enemies very happy.

FOX “NEWS” is an electronic CRAPLOID roughly equivalent to the NATIONAL ENQUIRER – you know, the kind with screaming 144-point headlines screaming, “CAITLYN IS PREGNANT”

Rupert Murdoch should be deported BACK to the land of Oz . . .

If Fox News was around in the 1950s it would be promoting McCarthyism…

We’d still have Conservatives working diligently to keep uppity Negros from voti… oh, wait… never mind.

The liberal media was not blatantly pushing the Democrats’ agenda in the 1950’s….Fox News is needed today!!

And, we’d probably have backed North Korea in that war, if they had their way.

We would have never landed on the moon.

Grew up in Buffalo. Got my shots at school. We had several students with braces and crutches due to polio. I remember seeing quarantine signs on some of the homes in my neighborhood. My mom explained that there was polio occurring in that house and people were not supposed to go there. My school was a beta test site for the polio vaccine. The entire class got the vaccine or sterile water as a shot. Then 4 years later the entire class got the polio vaccine shot as the betta test was over. Side note the polio was considered a northern disease. It struck northern states, Canada and Europe. It was many years later that it was determined that the south not having running water and out houses had babies that were immune to polio virus. Southern homes that were more affluent had hired nannies to take care of the babies & these nannies usually came from homes with the out houses.

And “Father Knows Best” would still be on the air.

basically