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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
Fair enough. I believe 1940's and later sanitation is the biggest and best invention for mankind. The book I posted has incredible data. I read it years ago (or a similar book). It's easy to make fun of it because of the anti vaccination people, but it has valid and multiple examples/graphs to it.
I had a book that graphed a direct link with the decline of polio with sanitation verses the vaccination, but I lent that out and it is now lost forever... I would have been a simple scan, but because I'm working on a project for a client and it needs to be done tonight. I'll have to do a search on it later.
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Read Freakonomics.
What you will discover that of course the rise of sanitation is highly correlated with a decrease in disease, since the rise of sanitation also increased with vaccination use. Many factors work together, but someone would have to be an idiot (this is not bullying, it is simply true) to withhold vaccinating children due to their own silly belief system. Statistics are great, and only prove the value of immunizations. Correlation on the other hand makes for great story telling since it does not equal causation.
I hire an accountant or a lawyer or an electrician to take care of things I have no expertise in. The health of my children is even more important.
You know what else is interesting? I have lived in 3rd world countries and my vaccinations kept me VERY safe compared to the general population. There was no real sanitation, yet I carried on. I would have been a mess had I not had all of my shots beforehand.