I’ve never seen a more concentrated example of woo and ignorance of basic fact; ever.

Let’s start at the basic premise and work from there. I don’t know if you are social Darwinist, a eugenicist or just a just a very special species of crank but again wow, what ever your founding philosophy is it is seriously flawed. Disease organisms did and do infect perfectly healthy individuals. That’s there niche.

In the fullness of time both pathogen and host may find some kind of equilibrium that from a Darwinian perspective is sustainable; but to claim this to be some sort of perfection gives the term “Panglosian” a bad name.

To claim the survivors of this process are in some way superior to those who end up dead or damaged is an abandonment of any kind of moral reasoning. It is to be cold and flippant in a way that boggles the mind.

What you are proposing that we return to some idealized purer past before medicine itself was created. Small problem with that idea; it means a whole lot of dieing and massive amounts of misery. It also means a life expectancy pegged at twenty five years. It means most children dieing before their first year of life and very few children living past five. It means dieing of such fun diseases a typhoid, whooping cough, rabies, cholera, tetanus, yellow fever and polio.

But let us leave those minor quibbles aside; what is tens of thousands of pointless deaths between a few friends? No let us really get into the meat of this argument: your complete lack of understanding of the immune system and how it works.

If you understood some of the salient facts there in no way you could have posted this drivel. Inoculations activate the “healthy” immune system in way that protects the recipient against a pathogen in way that is much safer and with fewer side effects than exposure than the pathogen will.

Let’s take your example of Small Pox and run with it; shall we? Before inoculation Small Pox was a killer, it laid a vast swath of death all over the world. Those who were not killed were horribly and literally scarred for life. The pock-mark scars of the disease disfigured its victims for life. That you would claim that this was of no matter is revelatory of how ignorant you are of both Medical and general history.

The history of how Small Pox was eliminated is the history of how preventive medicine grew and learned and improved over the years. From the baby steps of using cow-pox as a prophylaxis to the present day you can trace the improvement of the art. Did some people die in the process? Guilty as charged, but that had much more to do with the primitive state of inoculation in the early years than anything else. Morbidity, that would be dead bodies piling up for those who don;t understand such Medical-Sciencey things, was always much worse for the actual disease than it was for the analogue inoculation.

As for the claim that Whooping cough is not a dangerous disease; are you freaking stoned?! Whooping Cough kills, it has no cure, the only sure treatment for Whooping Cough is prevention. That would be inoculation and what is called “herd immunity.” Real babies die and real mothers are heart broken from this “not dangerous” disease. Before you type such nonsense you really do need to check with a legitimate government agency like the CDC. Those nice people are paid by tax dollars and have no connection with “evil PHarma.” Oh, I forgot, they are part and parcel of your all-singing, all-dancing, conspiracy-without-end-amen.

Final point litigation proves exactly nothing. People sue for all sorts of inane, foolish, and idiotic reason. There will always be some barrister in the U.K. or some ambulance chasing lawyer in the U.S. more than willing to take your cash to mount any case no matter how frivolous.

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