So, I’m not sure what percentage of this board is on the anti-vax train, but let’s get a general outline going here.
tetanus
polio
rabies
smallpox
and many other diseases
Have either been virtually eliminated by vaccines or at least vaccines have been proven beyond any doubt to work. Pic related. Josh Hightower had received an organ from somebody who had been bitten by a bat in Arkansas and died in Texas. He received a kidney for glomerulosclerosis that he had suffered since birth. He came down with rabies 27 days later and died. Why? Because the donor didn’t get a vaccine.
Anyone who believes in this anti-vax shit is stupid. And I’m not talking stupid in a “2+2=5” way but in an actual Darwin Award kind of way. Just about every disease that has a vaccine for it the vaccine has been PROVEN to prevent disease. I just don’t see how anybody could unironically believe that refusing to vaccinate their children for tetanus after they got cut by a rusty saw blade won’t result in the child getting lockjaw. How retarded are anti-vaxxers?
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[–] 18744889? ago
Well, if there’s an incurable disease and the only way to prevent it would be by getting a vaccine, I don’t see how that could hurt you. Also, vaccinations were started in the 50s, it started decrease dramatically by the turn of the decade (I think some 50,000 people were infected every year in the 1950s and it decreased to only a few hundred in the 60s) and by the end of the 70s, it was already gone by then (the last few indigenous cases were in the early 70s, IIRC, it was only a few dozen cases a year by that time). Ever since, there was only one case that happened in 1995 that was imported from Pakistan. Which is funny because the Taliban has been attacking health workers because of their retarded anti-vaccine beliefs, which is precisely why Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only two countries in the world where polio is still endemic.
[–] 18744908? ago
It started to reduce far before the vaccine was being used.
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[–] 18751072? ago
Big if true.
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Sure cleanliness can also help prevent the spread of disease, but so can vaccines. The bubonic plague today can easily be cured by getting antibiotics, but in England and across Europe it was a death sentence to whoever got it. Isn’t it great that the advancements in modern medicine turned what was once humanity’s greatest killer into a curable ailment? Even if you used sanitation, there are still people that die of the Bubonic plague to this day in America. It’s rare, but it’s not non-existent.