Nowhere near as painful as dying from influenza (thousands of Americans do die from it each year) or pertussis, or measles. Polio isn’t necessarily painful you just will never walk (or, in some cases, breathe) on your own ever again.
” We naturally resent other people’s dishonesty”
That you even start an anti-vaccine shows that you buy into the anti-vaccine nonsense that was started by one of the most dishonest physicians in history, Andrew Wakefield, whose fraudulent data started the anti-vaccine movement. That is certainly not honest.