Show me proof of anything that has saved as many human lives....

[Imallin4Joe]

as vaccinations.

Shove that factoid up the a** of any anti-vax conspiracy theorist.

Without modern vaccines, cultures get WIPED the F*** out.

[RockRaven]

1. Sewers/sanitation is often pointed to as number one. I don't have a good link/study though.

Whether it is that or vaccines, they are both at the top the list.

[Imallin4Joe]

3. there's a reasonable argument, I won't deny..

modern sewage treatment has proven to be a major boon to human health.

Although, it deals with making sewage microbes safe by "fermenting" raw sewage into a basic fertilizer.

Still, you make an intriguing argument.

[NightWatcher]

2. What about the billions of people on their knees praying to invisible beings?

[Imallin4Joe]

4. 320K+ dead show the lack of power of invisible beings saving us..

the "God" that failed.

[flying_wahini]

12. You and I think alike, 4Joe

[leftieNanner]

5. This is rude and unnecessary

Religion and spiritually are private matters

You are free to believe what you will, but please be DU respectful of others.

[Timewas]

6. He can

He and others have every right to believe as they choose as do you, he also has the right to say as he chooses and you have the right to block him on here...

[lunatica]

10. Agreed.

[RockRaven]

13. "Religion and spirituality are private matters" -- perhaps to you they are, but for billions of

people around the world and hundreds of millions of people in the US, their behavior indicates that they very much do not agree with that sentiment.

And when those people behave thusly, their religion and/or spirituality becomes everyone else's business. No matter how much we might wish it were not (I.e. no matter how much we wish they would have kept it to themselves in the first place).

[NightWatcher]

14. Forgive me

but I'm sick of deferring science and facts to religion. Beliefs are not equal to facts.


I'm sick of "thoughts and prayers" spoken over action and results.


Please be respectful of my beliefs.

[Timewas]

17. I agree

And I also have a small problem with adults who have invisible friends, somewhat worrisome... but they do have the right to believe as they choose and I have the right to doubt them. Their wonderful higher being has the power to stop this mess and chooses not to apparently.

[Journeyman]

7. Drinking Water Chlorination and water filtration via Reverse Osmosis Membranes . . .

Vector Control, as well, most especially mosquito abatement . . .

[Imallin4Joe]

9. High five from a healthy water nerd..

[beachbumbob]

8. Obviously sewer systems and water purification has saved way more but

health wise millions would die from diseases of all types without vaccines

[Raine]

11. Dixie Cups stopping the spread of germs

is a BIG one. 👍

[Doodley]

16. The killing of Nazis.

[dawg day]

18. Yes, and over generations--

And when smallpox was wiped out forever, it saves generations into the future.

There was also Norman Borlaug, another scientist (agronomist), who developed drought-resistant wheat, and is responsible for saving perhaps a billion lives into the future. Famines even in my early lifetime were often due to drought. Now most are just because of politics and warfare, still bad, but this wheat is pretty important.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug