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Whenever the conversation starts about vaccines
and you're new to the topic, the topic always starts with, "what about smallpox,
what about polio?" and that's because we have spent
decades pounding it into people's heads
that we eradicated smallpox and polio with vaccination, and we didn't.
The mantra goes like this: we must vaccinate our children
and continue to vaccinate them or else the infectious diseases
will come back. Every time
the disease was 90 or 95 percent gone
by the time the vaccine ever came out on the market.
So this platitude that vaccines have saved us from the scourge
of infectious diseases is not justified
by the mainstream epidemiological data.
Viruses, come and go, the epidemics come up
and they go down, it's a part of the natural course of things.
Look at the eradication
of polio you look at the eradication of these other diseases.
Well, you've heard of Bubonic plague, right? I mean it wiped out a large portion of the earth.
There was never a vaccine for it. Where is that today?
Let's go back to the early nineteen hundred's; scurvy
was on top of the list and it was the same rate disease
and declined at the same rate as tuberculosis,
cholera, scarlet fever, yellow fever, measles.
People die from all these infections but they die from scurvy at the same rate.
Once the death rate from scurvy started dropping
we see all these infectious diseases dropping the same rate.
Why aren't people dying of scurvy anymore? Well we have trucking, we have railroads,
we're getting produce, lemons and limes in the winter.
We also have sewage treatment, the advent of sewage treatment was huge
in this country, huge anywhere.
Having water that's not gonna give you diarrhea see you're not constantly being
bombarded with infectious agents. In this country
we did not vaccinate away cholera, we didn't vaccinate away
tuberculosis. So there's a lot of things that people think of
that we've vaccinated away but we never did in this country.
Less than 10 percent of the global population was actually vaccinated with
the smallpox vaccine
and the lion's share of polio as we saw it was actually
paralysis that we were worried about and the lion share of that paralysis, it went
away before the vaccines were even introduced.
It all went away when we got flush toilets and sanitation
the reality is if you look at the graphs, just picking up polio right now
and you watch the incidents of polio overtime,
it was already on the way out when they introduced the vaccines. Matter of fact,
when they introduced the vaccine there was a sudden spike because the vaccine was
causing polio at first. There are a lot of complications and problems with this,
bottom line was, you see that it was already on the decline,
on the way out, so did the vaccine actually cause it to go away or it was
already in its natural course?