Quote (Plaguefear @ 14 Aug 2021 05:09)
Some of humanity survived..
Half the world's population died in the justinian plague, some 50 million People..
It killed until everyone had built immunity or already died from it.
The black death alone killed 300 million before quarantine was able to stop its spread..
The black death killed 20% of London's population every ten years for three hundred years..
Mexico had a population of 11 million pre small pox and 1 million after it.. and what stopped it was vaccines..
Before "all these vaccines" the world was a horrific place.
World's still a horrific place.
And the Black Death is still around, not many deaths though. Also, not a virus. Just needs Penicillin. Likewise the Justinian Plague. Or whatever other wonderful antibiotic is used. I believe typically it's amoxicillin.
Your version of Mexico's history is... Interesting. Smallpox did kill ~8 million in Mexico in 1520. That was followed by two bouts of some form of native hemorrhagic fever transmitted by rats during drought in 1545 and 1576 that killed 12-15m and 2m respectively. At the end of these three epidemics, ~2m people were left in Mexico (New Spain, it was called at the time). So part of your conclusion here (all smallpox), is not entirely correct. Here, some fun reading for you:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2730237/Also, it's interesting to think that inoculations were used starting in China for Smallpox around 1000 years ago. Basically snorting dusted up smallpox scabs. Nasty stuff.
Nobody is arguing that vaccines are a good thing generally speaking. Several issues regarding comparing Covid to bacterial plagues and cocoliztli hemorrhagic fever though:
1. Covid is neither as lethal nor as capable of being lethal towards the healthy population.
2. With no mid or long term studies, we don't know what (if any) side effects the covid vaccines may have.
People who're talking about mandating mass vaccination may be correct that it'd be a great thing. Then again, long term effects might be so severe that max vaccinating could wipe out the human race. Who knows? It's not about being pro or anti vaccine or pro or anti science. Science is about data. We have no data on mid to long term effects of the mRNA vaccines. We simply don't. I think we all agree that the elderly and infirm need their vaccines (if they want them). The disagreement primarily has to do with long term safety. The same issue occurred with the Smallpox vaccine. The first nation to make it mandatory at a national level was Britain, with the US being one of the last. Britain's mandate wasn't for 60 years after the vaccine's creation. Why? Well, bottom line, around 1 in 100 died from smallpox per year. But if there was something long term wrong with the vaccine, what happens if you mass vaccinate, and 99/100 die from the vaccine?
So what you effectively have here are 3 discussions. The first is "why attempt to force the vaccine on the young and healthy when they aren't at significant risk?" The second is "Why attempt to mass vaccinate when you have no idea whatsoever the potential mid and long term ramifications of the vaccine?" The third is "Why force people to use medications they don't want when there is little to no threat to them from the virus you're attempting to treat, and how do you justify this use of force?"
Back to the first bit though: The world is still and will always be a horrific place. There will always be a new bacteria, a new virus, a new fungus. There'll always be catastrophic environmental events, and any number of other disasters that put lives at risk. The question is, when 60 million die globally every year from all causes, is a cold that's only managed to hit ~4.3m in the last 20 months, the overwhelming majority of whom were already at the average age of death, worth utilizing the same level of requirement as was used on smallpox, which was killing ~5m per year (including high rates of the young and healthy) globally in a world with 1/8th the total population, but without the testing period to insure the vaccine itself wouldn't be an even larger calamity?
This post was edited by InsaneBobb on Aug 14 2021 07:05am