29/01/2026
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🔗 https://news.immunologic.org/were-losing-our-measles-free-status
When people say, “we don’t need vaccines anymore because rates of tetanus, polio, and chronic hepatitis are low,” they’re making the same argument as someone insisting, “we don’t need water treatment anymore because no one’s gotten cholera lately.”
What would your reaction be if someone said that we were going to do away with water treatment and plumbing in the US?
That you’d be rolling a dice with the water that came out of your faucet. That you’d have to p**p in a chamber pot and dump it in the street, your yard, a ditch somewhere.
You’d probably have a pretty rapid and visceral reaction, right?
Thinking about the risk you’d be exposed to when those scientific tools were revoked—tools that make sure your environment is safe and your health is protected, right?
Our communities don’t have rampant spread of Giardia, Shigella, Vibrio. The prevalence of these diseases are low because we have sanitation systems. But remove measures that keep those pathogens at bay, they will return. And quickly.
This is the SAME phenomenon with vaccine-preventable diseases.
The current prevalence is low because people are getting vaccinated. Not as many as should be—which is recurrence of previously-controlled diseases are accelerating—but still a majority.
If we stop vaccination as a public health measure, these diseases will return.
People immediately understand that consequence if they’re presented with the idea they won’t have access to water and sewage treatment.
We don’t question the need for clean water, functional plumbing, or food safety regulations—because we know what happens without them.
So why do people question vaccines—when we KNOW what happens without them too?
Vaccines are the same kind of infrastructure: invisible when they’re working, devastating when they’re gone.
We have the cleanest hands and air in human history—yet we’re letting one of the most preventable diseases return.
Hygiene didn’t fail. Science didn’t fail.
We failed public health—by letting ideology overrule evidence.
