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Originally Posted by stickyfingerz
ya that has nothing to do with clean water, sewage systems, quality control of the products we ingest, medical practices that involve checkups and being able to see inside the human body and determine what is wrong, running water to wash with.. Nah its all the vaccines that helped increase life span.
I mean look at that chart. Obviously they started vaccines hot and heavy in the 1800's right? Did they start forced vaccine injections in the early 1800's just a few years after the first vaccine was invented? OR maybe.. just maybe the correlation is maybe due more to the fact that running water, and other public services were starting to be provided?
Had nothing to do with the industrial revolution either.  |
While better hygiene certainly helped, vaccines most certainly made a huge difference.
Let's look at smallpox again, since it's a rather good example. It used to account for over 10% of all deaths, some estimates going up as high as 20%. Yes, you read that right. Vaccination for it became common in the 1900's.
Now, even with your pea-sized brain, you should be able to comprehend that something that is responsible for 10% (or more) of all premature deaths being eradicated has a HUGE beneficial effect on life expectancy.