Comment by Izikiel43

How many millions died or were crippled by diseases which are now preventable?

Smallpox, polio, measles, etc

Sure, 50% to 70% of people who got smallpox survived, which also means that without vaccines you are condemning 30% to 50% of the population to die.

Same with the millions of people, specially in poorer countries, who died or were paralyzed by polio.

Vaccines have make those horrors a thing of the past, yet people today are concerned about "hat doesn't mean I think it's a good idea to take _all_ of them without scrutiny, nor that they're all good for _me_ as an individual."

Time has diminished the horrors of something that was fairly common a 100 years ago.