Really? Well my friend, there’s a mountain of data proving how totally wrong you are! Just check out what I found over on Visual News:
Despite the few very loud voices still claiming vaccines are dangerous (and getting a lot of attention in the process), there is overwhelming evidence that they make the world a much safer place. Take the seven interactive heat maps created by Tynan DeBold and Dov Friedman for the Wall Street Journal. Each of the three examples we’ve featured here show the number of cases before and after a vaccine was introduced. Striking isn’t it?
Each square on these charts represents the number of cases per 100,000 people. For highly infectious diseases like polio, measles and rubella, the thousands of people infected each year often had life changing, if not life-ending consequences. However, after the introduction of each vaccine (represented by the black line on the chart) cases quickly dwindled away, leaving us as we are today – with faint memories of the suffering in a world without vaccines.
Reblogged from 3 Striking Charts Show How Vaccines Have Impacted 20th Century Diseases on Visual News
See all seven interactive heat maps at Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines
I want ice water.
More from the Random Ravings volume
I Want Ice Water! 
totally agree, but can’t wait to see the subsequent comments.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Assuming there are any. But thanks anyway…
LikeLike
I have multiple personalities. does that count?
LikeLike
You too? I don’t know how helpful that is, but it’s sure as hell comforting… I think! 😉
LikeLike
as they say “you’re never alone with a schizophrenic” – really not fun to make jokes about mental illness, I know….
LikeLiked by 1 person
Well, I never make jokes about other people’s problems. Now my own problems, that’s an entirely different story!
LikeLike
I agree. And as people opt out of vaccinating, we will see those numbers rise again.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Too bad we can’t vaccinate against stupidity!
LikeLike
Or at least keep stupidity from reproducing.
LikeLike
If only…
LikeLike
I have no problem with vaccinations, it is just the additional ‘things’ which are being included in the shots. If it was just a measles shot, ok, but it is like a 5-1 type thing. It is interesting how Nevada isn’t represented in any of the charts. Wonder why.
LikeLiked by 1 person
For your concerns regarding combination vaccines Rene, I suggest you read Addressing Parents’ Concerns: Do Multiple Vaccines Overwhelm or Weaken the Infant’s Immune System? and/or Combination vaccines and multiple vaccinations. As for Nevada being left off the charts, I just realized they only list 26 total. I’m not sure why. Mine (Ohio) isn’t included either.
LikeLike
I trust you on the information for vaccines. I have no children, or grandchildren, and not even interact with children since I am homebound, so…I am not taking an active part in the argument. Mostly, I just was curious as to the Nevada thing, it seems to me Nevada doesn’t provide data enough or something because data is often not given for us.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Frankly, I’m embarrassed that I missed that not all states were listed. I’ve gone back to the sources I listed above, and even followed through on links from those pages, but still haven’t discovered why they were left off. Perhaps the data from the missing states were indistinguishable from that of neighboring states?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Nevada is often not included in many medical data groups. I am not sure why. I am guessing it has something to do with our Department of Health providing the data either on time, or at all.
LikeLike
Well, that’s not good. I hope that isn’t the reason data from the other 23 states is missing!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Those charts really make the point, don’t they? Colorado isn’t listed either. Have no idea why. Maybe our requirements aren’t stringent enough or something. We’ve got some bad numbers going on the measles thing. Nation’s highest rate of incidence among grade school kids or something like that. Really worrisome with the grandkids being 9 and 12.
LikeLiked by 1 person
It’s such a shame PT. At a time when we’ve overused antibiotics to the point of near uselessness, a few paranoid numbskulls are threatening to revisit the dark ages upon our kids. I was born right around the time when the polio vaccines were proving such a success, so I never even knew the fears others older than myself had had to live with. In fact, of all the diseases we’re immunized against, the only one I remember having was measles. And even there, because my symptoms were relatively minor, I think it was the much less dangerous German measles (rubella) variant…
LikeLike
I grew up in the middle of the polio years and it was scary. I can’t imagine how my parents must have felt, with 5 kids to worry about. I don’t remember having any specific childhood diseases but obviously had chicken pox because I’ve had shingles (at about age 53). I have a very difficult time understanding people who deny all the science and don’t protect their children.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Those shingles ads scare the crap out of me PT. The weird thing is that I don’t remember ever having chicken pox, though I’ve been exposed to it many times!
LikeLike
I had a mild case that was diagnosed early and it looked nothing like those horrible ads. But I did have a large area of itchy, burning red rash that took several weeks to completely resolve. Not fun. Get the vaccine.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yikes! That sounds bad enough to me!
LikeLike