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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[–] 18882092? ago
You're projecting your stupidity and unwillingness to accept the massiveness of the tragedy.
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[–] 18882093? ago
Boomer-tier science here but I’ll do you slowly so people stop sharing this stupid infection graph.
It is true that sanitation and living standard improvements far outweigh the marginal benefit of vaccination. Taking whooping cough (pertussis) as an example, infection rates dropped 75% in the ten years prior to the introduction of the vaccine (https://www.nvic.org/vaccines-and-diseases/whooping-cough/history.aspx) growth in consumption of real estate, information and sanitation all lead to far fewer deaths. These statistics still suffer from the under reporting problems inherit in statistics prior to whole life reporting facilitated by computer networks in the late 20th century.
However, it is not a sufficient argument to say that without vaccination that we will see lower rates of infection compared with the period immediately prior to introduction. There are far more children and infection vectors are far more sophisticated. Someone can carry disease from the depths of an African village to the middle of a developed country in hours. We cannot have both globalisation and weak disease vectors.
The other two posts are strange and are explained through growth in our understanding of disease and our ability to categorise them. As people age it becomes less important to vaccinate them as the will die and vaccinations are cheaper if we keep providing the most advanced ones to the youngest people who have the most value in vaccination game theory - they will provide the most benefit for the longest period of time against the most disease.