@MScot @Strandjunker

Seriously? 😂

@MScot

That is a common anti-vax trope. Certain diseases were substantially decreased or eliminated via various sanitation/public health measures. In particular gastro-intestinal fecal-oral transmitted diseases (e.g. typhoid) and certain vector borne or parasitic diseases e.g. yellow fever and malaria in the US. But vaccines have done a far better job when they are available.

Almost all of the diseases in the list above required vaccines to suppress them.

@MScot @Strandjunker Superior infrastructure certainly helped, but as every pandemic that has happened during and after the Industrial Revolution has shown, it’s vaccination that actually eliminates disease.

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I'm curious, which one of those diseases weren't troublesome? Which were eliminated without vaccines? Because my siblings and I had chicken pox, my brother had the measles. I worked with a woman who suffered after having polio as a child. We were born in the later half of the 20th century

@MScot "polio and smallpox weren't troublesome diseases" is an absolutely scorching hot take.

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