When it comes to vaccines it seems a lot of posters want to bring up Polio and the years before and after the vaccine. That was a much more genuine time in America, 2020 is different. I don't think Doctors or Government Health Official or Politicians are nearly as genuine as they would like us to believe. So I question everything they say. Originally Posted by Levianon17
I bring up Polio because of a personal experience which highlights the benefits of that vaccine and wish it had been available sooner.
You should question everything "they" say but you might not want to "dismiss" everything they say out of hand. That would be equal to believing everything they say. Both can have disastrous consequences like anti-vax parents who fail to vaccinate their children and then watch them die from a preventable disease..
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/whatifstop.htm
A final example: what could happen.
We know that a disease that is apparently under control can suddenly return, because we have seen it happen, in countries like Japan, Australia, and Sweden. Here is an example from Japan. In 1974, about 80% of Japanese children were getting pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine. That year there were only 393 cases of whooping cough in the entire country, and not a single pertussis-related death. Then immunization rates began to drop, until only about 10% of children were being vaccinated. In 1979, more than 13,000 people got whooping cough and 41 died. When routine vaccination was resumed, the disease numbers dropped again.