{"id":294350,"date":"2024-09-06T06:10:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T06:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=294350"},"modified":"2024-09-08T07:35:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T07:35:52","slug":"sowhats-the-deal-with-gazas-polio-vaccination-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=294350","title":{"rendered":"So\u2026What\u2019s the deal with Gaza\u2019s polio vaccination campaign?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian Sept 4, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Two weeks ago, the first case of polio was detected in Gaza for 25 years<\/a>, leaving a ten month-old child partially paralyzed and forcing decisive action from the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n

Doctors were dispatched to Gaza with over a million doses of polio vaccine, with the aim of vaccinating 640,000 children<\/a> in record time.<\/p>\n

Israel and Hamas even agreed to quote-unquote \u201chumanitarian\u201d pauses<\/a> in the bombing for a few hours every day to get the vaccinations done.<\/p>\n

The good news \u2013 according to the WHO<\/a> \u2013 is that all these efforts have been successful so far, and they are actually vaccinating more children than they planned too.<\/p>\n

\u2026And the world breathed a sign of relief.<\/p>\n

Thankfully the starving, homeless children of Gaza won\u2019t get polio as they crouch under the rubble of their homes praying the next batch of cluster bombs misses them.<\/p>\n

Sometimes a story hits the news and you\u2019re initial reaction is simply, \u201cWait\u2026what?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It used to be a semiregular occurrence, but since \u201ccovid\u201d it has become almost daily. This is one of those stories. I just don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n

The paralyzed child was actually due to receive his first polio vaccine on October 7th last year \u2013 the same day as the \u201cAl-Aqsa Flood\u201d, if you can believe it (as it happens I can\u2019t, but increasingly I can\u2019t really believe anything).<\/p>\n

Why would Israel agree to \u201chumanitarian pauses\u201d to vaccinate children they are apparently intent on blowing to pieces?<\/p>\n

I mean, if you can stop blowing up children because you don\u2019t want them to die of polio, can\u2019t you stop blowing up children because you don\u2019t want them to die of being blown up<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget, even before the latest one-sided \u201cwar\u201d, Israel had been starving Gaza of supplies and water and energy for years.<\/p>\n

Why are vaccines the exception to that?<\/p>\n

Why is vaccinating against polio of all things any kind of priority right now?<\/p>\n

Imagine Darth Vader is dueling Obi Wan Kenobi down a corridor on the Death Star \u2013 each swing of the light sabre intended to deal a killing blow \u2013 but then he pauses the fight to warn the older man about a \u201ccaution: wet floor\u201d sign behind him.<\/p>\n

It has that similar feeling to ISIS suddenly calling a halt to suicide bombings<\/a> during the \u201cpandemic\u201d.<\/p>\n

The only explanation I can think of is that there is some kind of override priority when it comes to narratives. War trumps climate change, but vaccines trump war and so on.<\/p>\n

This is a way of reinforcing the overwhelming vitalness of vaccination \u2013 even enemies, blowing each other up in a war, will stop to get kids vaccines (before blowing them up). Vaccines are just that<\/em> important.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s yet another bizarre narrative twist that calls into question the true purpose and motivation for the Gaza war as a whole.<\/p>\n

Or maybe it\u2019s just a symptom of living in an insane world run by insane people to insane ends<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Or maybe it\u2019s a story thread that will lead somewhere else eventually.<\/p>\n

Down the line, don\u2019t be surprised if the media starts saying \u201cwar is a threat to public health by making pandemics more likely\u201d, or that the \u201cpolio ceasefire shows hope for the future\u201d and that<\/em> is the launching pad a for a fresh push on the global government \u201clet\u2019s all get along\u201d messaging.<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t forget, even before the latest one-sided \u201cwar\u201d, Israel had been starving Gaza of supplies and water and energy for years. So why are vaccines suddenly an exception to that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":294352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,22,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Health","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294353,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294350\/revisions\/294353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/294352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}