Next thread: “does hand washing and clean indoor spaces makes our immune system weaker?”
I would hope that everyone already knows that it does. One has to balance risks as they see fit.
Medicine, maybe. Medicine mainly treats disease, rather than preventing it. (But, to that end, many of them are very effective at treating those diseases. Where would we be without antibiotics? And, actually, come to think of it, especially for things like bacterial diseases, curing one patient can prevent that patient from spreading it to many more.)
And there’s no way that vaccines haven’t made a huge difference. Entire diseases – that used to ravage populations horribly – are now completely eliminated.
Sanitation does deserve a lot of credit, sure … but it wasn’t sanitation that defeated smallpox.
Did you read the article? There’s quite a few graphs showing how mortality for infectious diseases already became very low before vaccines were introduced. There’s simply no way that the decline in measles or tuberculosis mortality was mostly due to vaccines, antibiotics or surgeries since they were only in use after mortality had declined 75-90%. Smallpox is one of a very small number of exceptions to this rule.
I just love that this article starts with this disclaimer…
[NOTE: If someone linked you to this article claiming that it shows that vaccines did not help fight infectious disease, they are wrong—and they didn’t read this article.]
Yeah it’s the author’s virtue signal which is why you can trust their conclusions which say the opposite of their bias in favor of vaccines
Lol! That’s a pretty convoluted way of admitting that you didn’t read the article.
I read all of it actually
And which part exactly, led you to conclude that vaccines are not effective?
I didn’t conclude that
What did you conclude then? Because your other comment was so convoluted that it obviously wasn’t clear what your point is.
I concluded exactly what the title of this post says
