Polio peaked in the U.S. in the year 1952, with 57,879 cases. Once the vaccine became widely available in 1955, this figure dropped to 29,000 cases. So, to claim that polio cases were dropping significantly before this point is incorrect.
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Why is this post being down voted? I’m just curious as to what the reason might be.
People think the poster is agreeing with the image
Because its a stupid post. Lets assume its entirely factual for a minute. The decline in contracting a disease is entirely unrelated to the purpose of a vaccine.
Vaccines are primarily for preventing severe and deadly outcomes once a pathogen has been contracted. They have a side benefit of reducing the spread and helping secure herd immunity prior to an outbreak. But thats not the primary reason they’re a great thing.
The image itself in its wording and presentation is implying that vaccines are basically useless and not needed. Its clearly antivax propaganda by people who dont understand shit.
- The graphs are about death rates, not contracting rates, but that doesn’t matter in the big picture, because:
- This sub is to post things that are easily disproved, dunking on them. Posting here isn’t condoning or advocating for it
the person asked where the down votes were coming from. I explained it.
as for your nonsense. rates are only informative when the denominated is included, without knowing what they’re relative too its essentially nonsense. for example: if its relative to the total population then its useless w/ respect to vaccines since not everyone within the population will contract the disease. Which any dataset dealing with sanitation and disease would be relative to the total population. Vaccines mortality rates are measured against the population that contracts the disease.
directly comparing the two is retarded. full stop no further discussion needed.
You should read the sidebar of this community
I have. Im aware. As i said i was answering the question that was asked. The community description is almost never read when generally browsing by users. Understand?
I forgot to vaccinate against downvotes
