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This is correct.You can't be serious?
Smallpox - used to kill millions of people, it killed around 300 million people since 1900 alone.
We have eradicated it with global vaccinations
Measles - In 2019 there were 869 770 cases of measles, the highest number since 1996, and an estimated 207,500 deaths - all preventable
More Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
- Whooping Cough (Pertussis) - Worldwide, there are an estimated 24.1 million cases of pertussis and about 160,700 deaths per year - all preventable
- Tetanus. - tetanus causes 213 000 – 293 000 deaths worldwide each year and that it is responsible for 5–7% of all neonatal deaths and 5% of maternal deaths - all preventable
Before we had vaccines, infant mortality was huge - the child mortality rate in the United Kingdom, for children under the age of five, was 329 deaths per thousand births in 1800. That's just over 3 in every 10 children died before they were 5. Today, it is around 3.678 deaths per 1000 live births - 100 times less.
- Meningococcal Disease.
- Hepatitis B.
- Flu.
- Polio.
- Pneumococcal Disease.
Can you imagine living in a world now where 3 in 10 kids died before their 5th birthday? This is what anti-vaxxers want to go back to.
Would you like this country to be facing the Indian variant if nobody had been vaccinated?This is correct.
However, is the covid vaccine tried and tested as the above ones?
Good luck to you.Would you like this country to be facing the Indian variant if nobody had been vaccinated?
Tried and tested...well 700 million jabs so far, I'd say yes.
You can't be serious?
I'm just watching BBCi, BEEB4, a program about the progress of vaccination generally, since 1800. Average age of death in 1800 - 32, compared to modern times of 73. I'm guessing the above poster has made it some way past 32, but I wonder if he might like to go back to the pre-vaccination days of 1800 and a very limited life span?
Would you like this country to be facing the Indian variant if nobody had been vaccinated?
Tried and tested...well 700 million jabs so far, I'd say yes.
You've missed the point of my rant. It wasn't anti-vax. It was about the idiotic, uninformed attitude towards those who are cautious about vaccines, especially new vaccines, and believe they should be shamed into having the jab. Being vaccinated means that the vaccinated are less likely to suffer serious Covid symptoms. So they're protected - unless they don't believe the vaccine works. However, they can still catch Covid and have mild symptoms or be asymptomatic. Importantly, they can still transmit the virus, just an unvaccinated person can.
Cases dipped to a very low level last summer, just as they are doing now. However there was no vaccine last summer - so it appears that the virus is seasonal and case numbers may not be too influenced by vaccination programmes. So the belief that the unvaccinated are somehow prolonging the epidemic is idiotic.
Any anger should be directed at the government for allowing 20,000 people into the country each day - 8,000 of them tourists. If the so called Indian variant is actually a problem, then the government has allowed it to enter the country. It is this that will be used to prolong lockdown, it won't be the fault of the unvaccinated. Though I do understand why some may feel aggrieved, as they fell for a Tory government who told them they may be able to regain their freedoms if they rushed to have a couple of jabs.
If you cast back to when the roadmap was announced it was made clear it was dependent on the data...indeed that was why it was spaced weeks apart.So why are they talking about delaying the end of lockdown and Scotland putting more areas into higher tiers if most of the vulnerable have been vaccinated? Doesn't sound like the authorities have any faith in the vaccine coping with the Indian variant.
It appears that you are incapable and wrong.I can & I am.
Removed the superfluous words for you.the idiotic, uninformed attitude towards .. vaccines. . the belief .. is idiotic.