What is the infant mortality rate before vaccines vs after the use of vaccines?

I argree with many of your points most especially the limitations for compensation for those with severe adverse effects. I agree that the public needs to be aware of all the facts that you gave and that no one should be forced to take vaccines. I agree that too many vaccines are given to children. I believe that people should have the choice to vaccinate or not but I think if you choose not to vaccinate your health insurance should be higher.

You educate for reasons not to vaccinate but there are still good reasons why you should vaccinate. You did not live in a time where these diseases were rampant among small children. You are not giving the statistics of the harm the diseases caused. In one of your factiods was about when an immunocompromised child could be given a certain vaccine. Can you imagine what would happen to an immunocommpromised child if they got whooping cough, diptheria, rubella, or mumps. A healthy child can survive these illnesses, a sick child cannot.

The Flu epidemics would be much worse without the vaccine. When people get the flu they go to the ER. The unvaccinated ER staff get the flu. I remeber one year at the hospial where I worked over half of the ER staff was sick with the flu at the same time. Flu vaccines became mandatory afterwards.

Should we discuss what would happen at a daycare if the children were unvaccinated and one child came down with the measles or mumps? Rubella is a bad, bad disease. It was called the big measles for a reason! Do you know what happens to a baby with whooping cough. They can't stop coughing and turn blue. Diptheria is a pretty nasty disease too.

Every one of my friends as a child had measles, mump, rubella, and chickenpox. Fortunately, polio was on the decline but I knew of a few crippled for life by polio, the ones that lived that is.

I don't want to get in an arguement with anyone about this, I just want to point out the other side of the story. Hey, the SV40 will probaly kill me in the end, but, I got over 50 healthy years with no disability that I would not have had if I had gotten polio.

Speaking of polio, I had to get the shots. In the glut! There were about 6 of them, one a month. I cried and cried and cried after each one! No cute little sugar pill in the first years but I had to take that too when it came out. No more polio! No more smallpox.

I wonder what the statistics are of the effects of the childhood diseases as compared to adverse effects of the vaccines? I don't believe I read that little factiod in your summation.