Tell ISIS. They want to take us back there, or further. Friends of theirs are the only reason polio isn't eradicated yet. Although if they're more clever than I grant they might accept a campaign against measles. Research suggests Measles hadn't evolved from Rinderpest into a form that could infect humans until a couple hundred years after the prophet. Perhaps they'd be against it as too modern a disease and treat it like HIV. Throw enough disease sufferers off roofs and you'll decrease its incidence.
I want to keep my modern technology. ALL OF IT. And keep improving it as best we can. Improved, safer, smallpox vaccines have been created since its eradication. The only component of my generations' routine childhood vaccines to have anywhere near common significant side effects was Pertussis. The DPT now has been improved to include an acellular 'P' component that removes most of that problem. Yet we have had frequent Pertussis outbreaks in our schools from lack of vaccination for it. Vaccines would probably be better yet by now had Bill not let Hillary play with the system back in the 90s. Vaccination is amongst the best studied of all medical interventions and has an enviable cost benefit ratio. Stop using 7th century, or any other century, superstition against it. History and medical logic says the old bad, non-eradicated diseases will come back if we let up. Maybe we could prevent some of the deaths with a few days of ICU care, but I'd rather be vaccinated and spend the difference on a new car. Vaccines are cheap. Vaccines are effective, as proven in part by all the anti-vax folks saying they can't remember cases of what the record clearly shows to have been common problems before the vaccine era. If G*d thinks you deserve to be Zotted with a 1/million problem He'll find a way whether or not you've had a vaccination for an excuse.
I was talking about keeping focuses about the here and near future. Yeah, measles killed so many millions of people centuries ago. But at the same time, I don’t give a $&@; about the media fearmomgering on disease. Should I worry about the fact that I came two days away from giving measles from a failed vaccine to me to my seven year old cancerous sister, or just move on, because she died anyways. That’s exactly what I did, I moved forward from that, and my mother even more. I also weigh out risks, and frankly, with 95 percent of the population vaccinated, and a fraction of 1 percent not getting vaccinated for reasons other than health. Like I said, I weigh the risks, and measles now is less dangerous than antibiotic-resistant bugs or cancer. That’s here, that’s now. And I don’t like the fearmomgering antivaccine people who blow the negatives out of proportion anymore than the fearmomgering nuts who tell me everyone will die of measles.