No sources. Appreciate new info, but sources, references, details are important. LFG

I’ve seen a similar chart in dissolving illusions by Suzanne humphries

I also would love this source too. I saw this chart and the polio ones a long time ago but can't find it now.

Our medical care got steadily better so fewer children died. The graph doesn’t show that along with deaths measles causes side effects like blindness, deafness, and mental disability. So when a normal childhood disease hospitalizes 40,000+ children a year it seems wise to vaccinate against that outcome. Children being hospitalized is not a normal part of growing up.

The numbers are accurate but what isn’t on the chart is how many people were hospitalized pre vaccines(over 40k a year). Better medical care meant fewer deaths but going blind deaf or getting brain damaged was a potential outcome. Not to mention the strain on the medical system.

No solutions, only tradeoffs. The medical system is much better 60+ years later, meaning hospitalizations and side effects would be lower.

Potentially. In 62 it infected 4 million and hospitalized ~ 48k. Today that infection rate might be just as high, there is little to indicate that hospitalization rates would be lower. perhaps some medical advancement would have been developed to reduce the severity of the infection and lower hospitalization, but there is no guarantee of this. Of course instead of this they just developed a technology to trick your body into fighting the infection thereby creating immunity. You would have to prove the vaccine is worse than this alternative and I see no evidence that this is the case🤷‍♂️. In developing countries with low vaccinations rates the death rate is over 5% clearly there is no magic bullet medicine that solves for measles in places that lack sophisticated hospital systems.