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Vaccines have completed eliminated smallpox and rinderpest, (which infects cattle) and we as close as can be to eradicating polio (500 cases a year).

Additionally vaccines have pretty much wiped out diphtheria, bacterial influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, and tetanus.

So, no there is absolutely no rational reason to not take any of the double-blind tested vaccines.

At this point it is just a cult.



Any cult big enough is a religion, right?


The other way around.


How many of those specific vaccines were leaky or had statistically significant escape metrics?


Aren't the vaccines against those other diseases effective enough that once you get vaccinated, you don't need to worry about catching the disease anymore, and don't have to do things like wear masks too afterwards?




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