9 Reasons Why Vaccination Is Definitely A Thing You Should Do
2. They Dont Even Work
*ahem* Yes they do. A comprehensive study of contagious diseases in the United States since 1888 found that vaccinations have prevented 103 million cases of deadly diseases. It should also be noted that these are the cases that would have occurred even with the improvements to sanitation and public health. You don't have to be an immunologist to know that 103 million people, that's more than the entire population of the Philippines, is a lot. Most of the people who are against vaccination will not have been alive when disease epidemics were common. They would not have seen the sheer scale of the problem that we were dealing with to be able to see how far we have come. The argument that "they don't even work" is commonly attached to instances in which a vaccine didn't work for a single person. This is because, although vaccines are lifesavers, they are not magic, 100% effective all of the time. There are a variety of reasons why a person might, occasionally, not respond to a vaccine, just like how some people get chickenpox more than once - it's just a quirk of the individual immune system. Just because vaccines don't work for some people doesn't mean that we should stop using them all together. Far from it, the fact that some people are unable to be properly immunised against some diseases makes maintaining good herd immunity incredibly important.
