No believing in vaccine / science in 2019 is just crazy.
It is like believing Bitcoin that is just some fake internet money.
I will quote those two paragraph as they are better written that what i could produce :
The “Hygiene and Better Nutrition Are Responsible for the Reduction in Disease Rates, Not Vaccination” Misconception
Improved hygiene and nutrition, among other factors, can certainly lower the incidence of some diseases. Data documenting the number of cases of a disease before and after the introduction of a vaccine, however, demonstrate that vaccines are overwhelmingly responsible for the largest drops in disease rates. Measles cases, for example, numbered anywhere from 300,000 to 800,000 a year in the United States between 1950 and 1963, when a newly licensed measles vaccine went into widespread use. By 1965, U.S. measles cases were beginning a dramatic drop. In 1968 about 22,000 cases were reported (a drop of 97.25% from the height of 800,000 cases in just three years); by 1998, the number of cases averaged about 100 per year or less. A similar post-vaccination drop occurred with most diseases for which vaccines are available.
Perhaps the best evidence that vaccines, and not hygiene and nutrition, are responsible for the sharp drop in disease and death rates is chickenpox. If hygiene and nutrition alone were enough to prevent infectious diseases, chickenpox rates would have dropped long before the introduction of the varicella vaccine, which was not available until the mid-1990s. Instead, the number of chickenpox cases in the United States in the early 1990s, before the vaccine was introduced in 1995, was about four million a year. By 2004, the disease incidence had dropped by about 85%.
source :
https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/misconceptions-about-vaccinesAnd this (from
1996) :
Two hundred years after the discovery of vaccine by the English physician Edward Jenner, immunization can be credited with saving approximately 9 million lives a year worldwide. A further 16 million deaths a year could be prevented if effective vaccines were deployed against all potentially vaccine-preventable diseases.
So far only one disease, smallpox, has been eradicated by vaccines, saving approximately 5 million lives annually.
Polio could be next. Over 80% of the world's children are now being immunized against the polio virus, and the annual number of cases has been cut from 400,000 in 1980 to 90,000 in the mid-1990s. If the year 2000 goal of eradicating polio is achieved, the United States will be able to save the $270 million a year that is currently spent on polio vaccination. The savings for Western European countries will amount to about $200 million a year.
Measles, currently killing 1.1 million children a year, is another possible candidate for eradication. Once high levels of routine immunization have been achieved, national immunization days, followed by close monitoring and 'blitzing' of any outbreaks, can eliminate the disease.
Immunization: the story so far
Progress to date against diseases for which vaccines already exist and deaths from diseases for which vaccines might be developed
Annual deaths
(all ages) if no
immunization
Prevented Occurring % prevented
Smallpox 5.0 million 5.0 million -- 100
Diphtheria 260,000 223,000 37,000 86
Whooping cough 990,000 630,000 360,000 64
Measles 2.7 million 1.6 million 1.1 million 60
Neonatal tetanus 1.2 million 0.7 million 0.5 million 58
Hepatitis B 1.2 million 0.4 million 0.8 million 33
Tuberculosis 3.2 million 0.2 million 3.0 million 6
Polio (cases of lifelong paralysis) 640,000 550,000 90,000 86
Malaria/other parasitic infections 2.2 million -- 2.2 million 0
HIV/sexually transmitted diseases 1.3 million -- 1.3 million 0
Diarrhoea/enteric fevers* 3.0 million -- 3.0 million 0
Acute respiratory infections 3.7 million -- 3.7 million 0
NOTE Figures for the number of deaths that would occur in the absence of immunization are generally calculated by taking the known mortality rate of each disease in the unvaccinated and applying it to the total population.
Yellow fever still causes an estimated 30,000 deaths a year but is omitted from this table because information is not available on the number of deaths currently prevented by vaccination.
* Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) is preventing approximately 1 million deaths a year from the dehydration that is one of the most common consequences of diarrhoeal disease. Vaccines, which could prevent infection, may become available.
SOURCE Estimates supplied by Children's Vaccine Initiative, Geneva, February 1996.
source :
https://www.unicef.org/pon96/hevaccin.htmSo, i am sorry for the families that claims that their kids got autism or died after being given a vaccine shot.
They should be happy that a vaccine saved their parents / grand parent from smallpox a few decades ago.
I don't say that vaccination must happen and that pumping 15 vaccines in one go in a new born is fine.
Maybe their is another way and we could wait for babies to be stronger 3 years ? 5 years ? to vaccine them.
But if vaccines hadn't been invented 200 years ago, we would definitely be less than 7 billions on earth and wouldn't have the quality of life we have today.
I come from a country where health is paid by the state (taxes) so free for its citizens (or almost... like it costs fuck all).
If i had a say i would let vaccines optional. People are smart enough to chose if they want it or not.
But if someone comes to the hospital being sick by something preventable from vaccines they would have to pay 100% of the care instead of have the ratepayer paying for it.
The same way i would let heavy smokers pay for their own lung cancer treatment or alcoholic paying for their liver transplant and drug user pay for their stomach pumping ...
Obviously Free healthcare for everybody if it is an accident / not your fault / not preventable / genetic .....
