/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11938752
>Even chicken-pox, which usually a person gets at least once in their life and is often mild, has been significantly reduced in its mortality to humans because of vaccines.
this is simply incorrect. Death rates for various diseases were on a decline before vaccines were made for them. What vaccines did was prevent people from getting the disease. Pic related is just measles, but the same is true for a lot of diseases besides small pox and polio

>>10191840
>not even recorded until 1960
How do you know what the death rates were before they were recorded?
See pic. You’ll think “but that wasn’t really a lot”
Now it is fucking ZERO
What makes it ok that “only” several people died from a disease every year when it is entirely possible to make that number zero? This isn’t about fear anon, it’s about disease control which is imperative for the survival of our species.
And if there was a way to stop lightning strikes, we’d probably do it.