why do you and others like vaccines so much?
not dying of preventable diseases is actually one of my favorite hobbies
Because smallpox used to kill about 30% of everyone who caught it. The successful vaccine program run by the world’s medical community means that no one will ever die of smallpox ever again.
Because rabies is 100% fatal without a vaccine. No one needs to die of rabies ever again. It is entirely preventable.
Because 1-2 in 1000 who get measles, die. Vaccines let us contain outbreaks or fully wipe them out. There is no specific treatment for the disease once you have it. Your immune system either wins or you die.
We like vaccines because vaccines save lives and raise our standard of living.
My mother, now in her 70s, talks about how her mother wept for joy when her children received the polio vaccine. Because she didn’t have to be afraid of polio anymore.
My mother is pushing 70, and her father was a polio survivor, as was my paternal uncle's first wife. I never met my mom's father, but I remember my aunt's thigh high leg braces and forearm crutches. This was in the late 70s-early 80s. The polio vaccine was still a Big Deal.
I wondered if the chicken pox vaccine was really necessary when it popped up for my son. Then I remembered my misfortune in catching it twice over the same summer, and the scarring it left behind. A friend of mine had to be hospitalized because she had the pox blisters down her esophagus.
I was fully vaccinated for my time. My son is fully vaccinated against things that were common even up to the 90s. Because I don’t want him to suffer when a quick injection can prevent it
My grandmother had polio in the 50s because they wouldn’t vaccinate a pregnant woman.
My mother’s first memory is peaking into the bedroom and seeing her mother horribly sick. Despite how sick she was she was at home because the hospital was full. The little town was the epicentre of one of the last outbreaks in the region. My grandmother could breath so she was at home.
It left her disabled, one leg shrivelled. It left her week and exhausted for the rest of her life. She was 21. She’s 90 now. She was lucky. Some of her neighbours died.
Me? I got whooping cough. This was the same year the booster came out. My parents missed it for a month because I wasn’t as sick as kids had been with it when they were young.
Well fuck me because I ended up have it for 6mths and my immune system is permanently fucked because my lungs are a bit fucked.
Why put your kid or yourself through this shit when a shot can prevent the worst case scenarios.
Does no one remember tetanus? It was the leading cause of death for athletes for decades because a simple cut or scrape could end up giving them lockjaw but no one gets it anymore because we have vaccines.
It’s really not deep.
