Spanish boy dies of diphtheria, parents refused vaccination
First North American measles death since 2003
So this is what’s been happening lately.
Do you know what was the groundbreaking discovery in medicine? Not antibiotics or transplants or stem cells or whatever. It was vaccination. That thing that helped eradicate some of the deadliest contagious diseases and helped keep the rest of them under control. Because a few hundred years ago a pandemic could wipe out a big part of the world’s population.
But you do not appreciate that anymore. No, because now you live in a world where most people are immunized and these are diseases of the past. So why obey the evil doctors and vaccinate you children when you can see your kid has not been vaccinated and is just fine. But your kid is fine thanks to the 95% of the people around him that chose to vaccinate. Your kid is fine because of herd immunity. And that immunity is dropping everyday because more and more parents refuse to vaccinate their kids. So cases like those above start to appear. And when you repeatedly come in contact with a disease, it won’t only affect the unvaccinated ones, but also the ones vaccinated a long time ago or who have temporary low immunity or who are unfortunate enough to catch a serious virus strain. Not to mention the immunocompromised.
But not to worry, if things continue like this, it’s a matter of time until epidemics appear again, and when people start dying by the dozens, you may reconsider your beliefs.