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Yes, it seems to me that way. AKA personal opinion.

fastball 3y ago
I think your intuition is probably a bit backwards in this case. Viruses (especially ones like Polio) wreak havoc. A broken neck is mostly "superficial", in that the connection is severed but the underlying structures can be mostly undamaged. Polio is destroying motor neurons throughout the CNS, including the brain (which in general is always going to be the hardest organ on which to perform any interventions). But even when a virus is not targeting the CNS, generally they have the ability to do a lot more lasting damage than blunt force trauma, as a virus can cause DNA mutations / changes at a sub-cellular level, which you will not see from BFT. Compare it to a skin issue. Which is more difficult to treat: a large blister caused by touching the hot stove, or a blister caused by herpes?
- DoreenMichele 3y ago
  I live with a serious genetic disorder and deal a lot with illness. I've pursued a lot of alternative remedies to cope with a condition Western medicine can't fix. In my experience, viral infections aren't that hard to treat and I no longer get fever blisters (which happen to be caused by herpes, coincidentally). There are lots of natural antivirals out there and this was common knowledge on an email list I once frequented which no longer exists. I list it as my personal opinion not to say that it's merely a wild-assed guess based on nothing in particular but to say that you aren't going to change my mind and I don't have any sources to cite and don't wish to get into an argument over it.
  - shiroiuma 3y ago
    Herpes is a normally-dormant virus that, when it flares up, causes those annoying blisters, until it goes dormant again. Tons of people have this problem, it's extremely common (this virus causes cold sores, canker sores, etc. Probably most of the population has this virus.). So sure, if you can find some kind of antiviral that suppresses or kills the virus, you can avoid those blisters. And luckily, the effects of herpes simplex are almost always minor and temporary in nature, not life-changing. What we're talking about here with polio isn't suppressing or eliminating a virus, we're talking about fixing damage caused by a viral infection to the CNS. At this point, the polio virus isn't even a problem: people who recover from it don't have the virus anymore, they're just stuck with the damage it's caused, much like people today with "long Covid". This isn't something that's going to be easy to fix.
    - DoreenMichele 3y ago
      I never said it would be easy to fix. Saying "X seems easier than Y" is not saying "X is easy!"
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I think your intuition is probably a bit backwards in this case. Viruses (especially ones like Polio) wreak havoc. A broken neck is mostly "superficial", in that the connection is severed but the underlying structures can be mostly undamaged. Polio is destroying motor neurons throughout the CNS, including the brain (which in general is always going to be the hardest organ on which to perform any interventions). But even when a virus is not targeting the CNS, generally they have the ability to do a lot more lasting damage than blunt force trauma, as a virus can cause DNA mutations / changes at a sub-cellular level, which you will not see from BFT. Compare it to a skin issue. Which is more difficult to treat: a large blister caused by touching the hot stove, or a blister caused by herpes?

DoreenMichele 3y ago
I live with a serious genetic disorder and deal a lot with illness. I've pursued a lot of alternative remedies to cope with a condition Western medicine can't fix. In my experience, viral infections aren't that hard to treat and I no longer get fever blisters (which happen to be caused by herpes, coincidentally). There are lots of natural antivirals out there and this was common knowledge on an email list I once frequented which no longer exists. I list it as my personal opinion not to say that it's merely a wild-assed guess based on nothing in particular but to say that you aren't going to change my mind and I don't have any sources to cite and don't wish to get into an argument over it.
- shiroiuma 3y ago
  Herpes is a normally-dormant virus that, when it flares up, causes those annoying blisters, until it goes dormant again. Tons of people have this problem, it's extremely common (this virus causes cold sores, canker sores, etc. Probably most of the population has this virus.). So sure, if you can find some kind of antiviral that suppresses or kills the virus, you can avoid those blisters. And luckily, the effects of herpes simplex are almost always minor and temporary in nature, not life-changing. What we're talking about here with polio isn't suppressing or eliminating a virus, we're talking about fixing damage caused by a viral infection to the CNS. At this point, the polio virus isn't even a problem: people who recover from it don't have the virus anymore, they're just stuck with the damage it's caused, much like people today with "long Covid". This isn't something that's going to be easy to fix.
  - DoreenMichele 3y ago
    I never said it would be easy to fix. Saying "X seems easier than Y" is not saying "X is easy!"
- deleted 3y ago
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