Injuries and death from smallpox vaccination were known and accepted risks of its use at a time when epidemics in unvaccinated populations had a 30% mortality rate.
Your post is like, "when I was a kid, we all got measles (or mumps, or chicken pox) and it was no big deal".
Between 1950 and 1959, 5000 children died of measles. Now, that's on a background of 100 million cases, but that's 10,000 moms and dads bereaved, who knows how many siblings, grandmas and grandpas with an horrific family tragedy.
That's not nothing.
Current average of measles deaths in vaccinated children = 0.
“when I was a kid, we all got measles (or mumps, or chicken pox) and it was no big deal”.
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Got all of them! And it was no big deal!!!
So I survived Pertussis and Rubella. Also no big deal.
Smallpox, Diphtheria and Tuberculosis, Polio, those were deadly!