If You Distrust Vaccines, You're More Likely to Think NASA Faked the Moon Landings And...

[Rozlee]

5. I read this article in MJ a month ago and made some posts on it.

The anti-vaxers are free to believe what they want and so am I. As I stated in my posts, I believe we've become complacent because vaccines have wiped out our greatest scourges and we no longer know the horror that was 300 million people dying of smallpox in the 20th century, 2 million in 1967 alone. In the last two generations, we never saw the children crippled with Polio and having to be placed in Iron Lungs. We've never seen epidemics of Diphtheria that used to decimate families because they no longer occur with vaccinations. I remember my mother telling me about her 4 young siblings that died from the Spanish Flu and I hear people say that they eat right and live right and have never gotten a cold in years, so why should they vaccinate for the flu? The Spanish flu and many sub-types of influenza precipitate a cytokine storm that specifically targets the young and healthy and turns their robust immune systems against them via a positive feedback loop. Which is why the 2009 Swine Flu and the Spanish Flu infected mostly the young and healthy. There was a time when infectious diseases were our number one killer. Now, they're up to number nine and ten in pneumonia and flu in the elderly. People just forget how horrific infectious diseases were because in their lives, they've never lived through epidemics of them. They can afford to be complacent and dismissive about those diseases now and tell themselves that the world's aggressive vaccination program didn't have a hand in it.