“Today’s children are the SICKEST GENERATION EVER!”
Ahh, nostalgia for the good old days when mothers buried their kids. When they lived in fear of polio. When smallpox killed millions. When youngsters died of “consumption”. When typhus decimated entire families. Before big, bad Pharma invented vaccines and antibiotics. Yup, I prefer all that to a kid with ADHD or learning disabilities or having to give a kid a gluten free diet.
Do you really believe that vaccines cause all that? How come you did not include the rate of kids dying in car accidents while you were at it?
Also confusing- are you blaming all vaccines or only MMR? If the former (which I suspect, or else you would not have included SIDS which is defined as sudden death in babies under 1 yr of age, before they get the MMR), then you have to compare to the death rates of all diseases that have been prevented by vaccines. And not just deaths, but also complications as bad as allergies and ADHD etc that you listed above. Also, you can’t compare to the low death rate in a (mostly) vaccinated population, but what the death rate would be without vaccination.
Here’s some other statistics:
there were between 1000-to over 3000 polio deaths in the US in the early 19050s before the vaccine was introduced. That number dropped to around 500 in the years immediately after, and by the 1960s was basically 0. In the early 1950s, more than 15000 were left paralyzed by the disease each year.
Smallpox in the US was eliminated earlier- the vaccine was discovered by Jenner in the late 1700s. In the last US epidemic in 1902, there were 1596 reported cases and 270 deaths. In the 18th century, 400,000 Europeans died each year from smallpox, mortality rate among children was 80%. But elsewhere in the developing world, small pox continued to kill millions until its eradication in 1979 following global efforts of vaccination by the WHO.
Rubella: In an epidemic in 1964-65 (before development of first vaccine) there were 12.5 million cases of rubella, affecting 20,000 babies whose mothers were infected- 2100 neonatal deaths, 11,000 deaf babies, 3,500 blind, and 1,800 mentally impaired.
And finally, our favorite, measles, which you said resulted in zero deaths. Did you miss the report of the baby who died of the recent epidemic? One simple google click gave me a WHO website that stated that “Global measles deaths have decreased by 84% from an estimated 550 100 in 2000 to 89 780 in 2016.” Most of these deaths were in children under 5. The drop in death rate was due to vaccination. If you want US data, then the CDC reports that prior to 1963 when the vaccine was introduced, there were 400-500 deaths each year.
I assume you will say that the CDC and WHO make up these numbers to scare people so that they will vaccinate.