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		heavyset_go on Oct 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to s... If you have polio and take the polio vaccine, it will do nothing. It is no cure for polio, it is prophylaxis.

the_doctah on Oct 27, 2021 [–]

Semantics.

TylerE on Oct 28, 2021 | [–]

Words. They mean things.

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