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christianvegan wrote:vaccines: just say no.
ETeSelle wrote:christianvegan wrote:vaccines: just say no.
If everyone did that, we would all still be dying of measles, smallpox, polio, etc. Thanks to anti-vaccine extremists, there is now a measles outbreak.
I don't get a flu shot, but I got my childhood vaccines, get a tetanus shot every 10 years, etc. And children and old people should probably get the flu shot, even though it's not always that effective.
Skip wrote:Think how better off we would be if a WFPB diet was mandated in lieu of flu shots......
ETeSelle wrote: And children and old people should probably get the flu shot, even though it's not always that effective.
England began keeping statistics in 1838, which was 62 years before official U.S. statistics were gathered. Looking at this data, we can see that the death rate from infectious diseases was high during the 1800s and declined from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s to almost zero.
The authors use this graph to state "the attenuated live virus vaccines are highly effective, as shown by the decline in frequency of the disease." The graph shows a steady decline in deaths from the measles to the time the measles vaccine became available where there was a further decline. The decline after the measles vaccine was introduced was relatively small and the authors had to graph the data on a logarithmic plot to make the change noticeable.
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