lets take a step back
why are we trying to worsen the population problem here
We're not. Poorer communities generally have trouble making their infrastructure better able to support population growth when all their infants are dying and people are getting sick from polio/diptheria outbreaks.
Some of these don't look very fun, do they? These are not just stupid assumptions made by some wannabe paranoid mom over the Internet. My doctor's office gives out gobs of papers explaining potential side effects. If you go and tell me you are smarter than doctors, go to medical school and revolutionize the world. K?
You're being such an ignorant cunt right now that I feel obligated to explain in greater detail why your philosophy on vaccinations is so handicapped and destructive.
Meet Variola. It's a few tens of nanometers big, it likes long walks on the beach, and it causes a disease called
smallpox. Variola has two different forms, Variola minor & Variola major.
Variola minor is like the younger brother of the two. It doesn't infect people as often, and when it does it's generally less fatal, causing deaths in around 1% of the infected. Essentially, no one cares about Variola minor.
However, Variola major is a mean mother forgeter. A really, really mean motherforgeter. Variola major is responsible for causing the most common and unfortunately the most severe type of smallpox. You can probably tell from the name, but the disease causes hundreds of pustules and hemorrhagic sores to erupt all over your body. All in all, this type of smallpox kills around 30-35% of its victims, and even more if they're young or elderly.
CONTEXT: The survival rate of the most common type of smallpox is lower than most common cancers
"Okay, so we know smallpox sucks. But so does Ebola, and we don't get vaccinated for that! What's the point?"The biggest issue is that although smallpox is extremely deadly, it's also incredibly contagious. Turns out, having pustules all over your body full of viral material tends to spread disease really well. Who knew?
Now, smallpox has basically been the scourge of mankind for thousands of years.
It's been estimated that the disease likely emerged by about 10,000 B.C., and the countless outbreaks and epidemics it's caused are well-documented in history. The extent of the deadliness of smallpox is hard to quantify simply because it's so damn massive, but I'll try.
In the 20th century alone (which only had smallpox for ~70 out of 100 years), 300-500 million people died from smallpox.OTHER WAYS TO UNDERSTAND HOW BADLY SMALLPOX SUCKS:
-The amount of deaths caused by smallpox exceed the combined fatalities of every world war in history.
-The number of people who died in 9/11 is ~0.00000749% of the amount of people who died from smallpox in the 20th century alone.
-The total estimated deaths caused by World War II (60,000,000) is approximately 15% the amount of people who died from smallpox in the 20th century.
-Create an image in gimp with the dimensions of 10000 pixels by 40000 pixels. Every pixel in this image is a fatality from smallpox in the 20th century.
-Deaths by smallpox probably represent a whole-number percentage of everyone who has died ever.
As you should be able to tell by now, smallpox is essentially the worst thing in history.
But here's where the happy part begins:
Smallpox vaccines have been around for a long time, but the disease largely persisted in parts of Africa and the Middle East where the vaccination programs weren't as focused or less effective. The campaign for a world-wide eradication of smallpox started around the 50s, and was completed by 1977.
Let me repeat for emphasis,
Vaccines managed to eradicate a disease responsible for more deaths and more disfigurements than every world war in history combined... in less than 30 years.Now that I've shown you how medical advancements enabled humanity to eradicate one of the worst scourges to ever afflict the human race, I want you to reassess your position on vaccines.
Do you
still think that vaccines are not worthwhile because in a very small minority of people, they produce serious side effects?
I hope for your sake that you don't have to think twice when answering that question.
