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Polio makes comeback in Venezuela after decades

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How are people holding up over there in general?

>>Encourage the messy, incompetent toddler who really wants to do the dishes now, and over time, he'll turn into the competent 7-year-old who still wants to help.

Not to mention that they need to learn, eventually they'll need it.

I think you meant to comment here: How Children in a Maya Village Do Chores https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17280710

Yp, sorry. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17280710

Can't be arsed to follow this up, lacking links in the article. Does anyone know if there is a clue as to how the virus got into the country? It only circulates in very few places, I thought, and none in the Americas.

The previously last known places for polio were Afganistan, Pakistan, and Syria. These are places where Iran has a military presence. There is military cooperation between Venezuela and Iran.

AFAIK, there is no military presence of Iran in Pakistan and Afganistan. Could you share some neutral sources to back-up your claim?

Isn't Bill Gates basically betting on this scenario not happening?

I don’t think even Bill Gates was counting on something as devastating as what is happening in Venezuela at the moment. His charity needs minimally functional countries to be able to access all children.

the human development index of Venezuela is in the top half of countries world wide.

Secondly, Bill Gates was vaccinating only in countries where polio is endemic. His whole thing is once it's gone, it shouldn't come back.

> the human development index of Venezuela is in the top half of countries world wide.

The latest UN HDI data is from 2016 - things have gone /drastically/ downhill for Venezuela since then, especially in the last 6 months.

Bill Gates was betting on people not getting vaccinated but still being immune?

If that is so, Bill Gates is stupid. Because anyone with enough resources can make polio virus in a lab..

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1490301/

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