NOW people are worried about polio because it causes paralysis… in less than 1% of people who get polio, when of course they decided covid isn’t bad, even though people are getting cardiac complications and maybe 8% of people get long covid from covid. It’s not really surprising Joe Rogan is platforming some right-winger who thinks polio is no big deal, a large amount of the left seems to not realize that covid is more serious than polio.
I think the fact that people can’t wrap their head around the fact that covid is really actually more serious than covid is that heart attacks, fatigue, and various chronic illnesses associated with long covid are less cosmetically visible compared to needing a cane. It’s stigma.
And hey, maybe if people didn’t go along with the minimization of covid we wouldn’t have ceded so much ground to give away on polio and measles, and all the rest of the dangerous but preventable infectious diseases. Because guess what – infectious diseases are preventable — you prevent transmission.