Name: What If We Stopped Vaccinations?
Uploaded: 2020-04-04T08:11:06.000Z
Duration: 4 min 15 s
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You've heard all the scary  rumors surrounding vaccines:

Even that they can give you  the disease they're trying to prevent!

It's misinformation like this that has caused American vaccination rates

to drop significantly over the past couple of decades.

Some people believe their children would  be better off in a world without vaccines.

and here's what would happen  if we stopped vaccinations.

Through the years vaccines  have been successful

in reducing the spread of deadly diseases

to the point where they've nearly disappeared from America.

some start to wonder why we're  still vaccinating against them.

Well, if you want to see how a so-called  controlled disease can make a comeback,

and 80% of people were getting  the whooping cough vaccine.

and zero related deaths  throughout the whole country that year,

the Japanese started to  let their guard down.

By 1979, only 10% of children were being vaccinated.

Shocked by the whole ordeal, the Japanese  quickly turned back to routine vaccination,

and the disease numbers  dropped once again.

People usually see the decision not to  vaccinate as a very personal, individual matter

thinking they should have the right to be able  to control what goes into their child's body.

but what a lot of people don't understand

is that if everyone made  that same "individual" decision,

it would have catastrophic effects, and  eventually spell far more danger for your child.

The fewer people who get vaccinated, the  more opportunities a disease has to spread.

you're not only accepting the possibility  of contracting a disease yourself,

but also the chance of spreading it to others  around you and playing a part in an epidemic.

There are hundreds of thousands of people who can't get vaccinated

due to treatments for cancer and other conditions,

and their safety relies on the  rest of us being vaccinated.

The next time someone tries to convince  you that vaccines are too dangerous,

just let them consider what our world would look like without vaccines.

We'd be transported back to a world  we thought we had overcome,

where life for children was especially brutal.

These are just a handful of the old diseases  that would come back to wreak havoc

There hasn't been a single credible study  linking vaccines to long term health conditions.

In fact, the paper that started  the theory that vaccines cause autism

that its author lost his medical license!

Maybe one day we'll be able to eradicate all diseases from our planet.

But would new challenges just come to take their place?

Well, that's a topic for another WHAT IF.