re: #150 danarchy

If there was something like polio or smallpox going around with huge mortality and morbidity rates these people would be lining up for the vaccine. Covid, especially for children, just hasn’t proven to be scary enough.

There were antivaxxers driving up smallpox rates the entire time the smallpox vaccine existed, which, depending on the type of smallpox, could reach nearly 100% death rates.

The Long View: Ye Olde Anti-Vaxxers (Gavi, with particular attention to a smallpox outbreak in Montréal and the anti-vaxxer campaign led against it by physicians and others looking to make a quick Canadian buck).

It is noteworthy when a smallpox outbreak occurred in Boston, then Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor and notorious witch prosecutor Cotton Mather had to order Congregationalist pastors to stop interfering with medical personnel trying to inoculate the colony or he would have them arrested.

As for polio’s paralytic rate, the rate is only 1% of all infections (does that number sound familiar?).

The idea that “Covid 19 patients are hidden away in hospitals if they have serious disease so people don’t see it” is no different than people in hospitals with serious poliomyelitis disease (including building special wards for patients).