Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are out there in the world, we're

all going to step out onto a high wire today.

I saw a headline today to me that just about encapsulates all that is wrong on the planet

today.

I know we can talk about all those other issues, but look at this.

This is NPR.

Vaccine derived polio is on the rise.

Let me read that sentence again.

Vaccine derived polio is on the rise.

A new vaccine aims to stop the spread.

Now just that headline alone is about all you need.

I don't really need to get into details.

Try to wrap your head around what you just read.

How many headlines like that do we all just sort of walk by?

Oh yeah, whatever, getting out of my life.

When the entire conversation of vaccination always comes down to, well, what about polio?

I mean, we eradicated polio with vaccines.

That's what conversation comes up every time you have it.

Well, and I've been saying right here on the high wire for some time now, the polio story

is not over.

I've even watched in the high wire for more than three years.

I have told you that we have a polio epidemic in the world that's being caused by the vaccine.

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