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I think it’s misleading to act like vaccines weren’t saving kids’ lives until my parents’ generation.
by mikeash 7y ago
I think it’s misleading to act like vaccines weren’t saving kids’ lives until my parents’ generation.
- eej71 7y agoI think it's fair to say that the uptick in lives that were saved made a huge leap forward with the arrival of industrialized medicine which is to say mass produced vaccines made available to the many and of course the arrival of vaccines for even more diseases that were not previously covered. I hope we can agree that the recent down tick in the rate of vaccinations is a step backwards.
- mikeash 7y agoI’m not sure about that. The death rate from smallpox was unbelievably high before the vaccine, and it was eliminated or nearly so in many countries well before this supposed 1960s date. Certainly more recent advancements have been wonderful, and the anti-vaux movement is callously throwing away lives and the hard-fought victories of our ancestors.