Posted on 08/22/2021 1:41:11 PM PDT by ransomnote
We did use that strategy. Cases, which meant actual infections back in that time, were dropping like a rock before the vaccines were rolled out. A cursory examination of the graph of cases and deaths show that the number were headed to zero. People had become immune by the millions by being exposed and defeating it before it took root. They pass this down to their progeny. That is why the Spanish flu is a nothing burger, human beings defeated it without a vaccination.
Just to be clear, you think we now have hereditary immunity to polio and smallpox and no longer need to vaccinate our children?
Do we still vaccinate for polio and smallpox? The answer is no. Does the diseases still exist? Most certainly. Why don’t people get it? Because human beings mostly are immune. Why didn’t Europeans get affected and infected as did the Native Americans? Because they had never been exposed to smallpox.
You can argue all day, but in your world without vaccines, the human population would have died out long ago from diseases. A virulent and deadly disease finds a population to infect and kill victims, some survive and their ancestors are immune. TRUTH.... It is the way of the world, the very thing that Evolution is predicated upon.
Oh dear. I think I see the problem.
Of course we still vaccinate everyone for polio. In fact I had to get a booster several years ago for some international travel.
And smallpox was officially declared eradicated in the wild in 1980. Because of vaccines.
Smallpox was known and infecting people for over 1200 years. We didn’t develop herd immunity.
Then within 200 years of the vaccine being developed we eradicated the virus.
Covid test bs bkmk
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