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Originally Posted by blueash
I do love good sarcasm, but some people actually might think you are serious when you posted this. There is no effective vaccine for TB, While there is a vaccine for Dengue it is of low benefit and those who receive it are prone to severe dengue if they are infected. Rubella is a trivial illness other than its teratogenic risk. Polio is under excellent control internationally with vaccination being the major reason for its near elimination.
There is no vaccine for trypanosomiasis nor larva migrans. On the other hand, Covid in 2020 is the world's 6th leading cause of death and would certainly be higher if there hadn't been a vigorous effort to try to contain its spread.
For historical perspective, the worst year in the US for deaths from polio was 1952 when 3145 people died. In Florida alone we have now had over 27,000 deaths from Covid. There have been many single days where the deaths from Covid in the US have been greater than the deaths in the entire year from Polio in its worst year.
To trivialize Covid as just another illness ignores all the science, epidemiology, and over 400,000 dead Americans. We have lost more Americans in one year to Covid than the total deaths of Americans in WW 2. Nobody seems to think those deaths were trivial or should be mocked. More Americans died from Covid in December than during the entire Vietnam war.
Some people don't find a disease that is the 6th leading cause of death, the leading infectious disease cause of death in the world in 2020, and one that kills more people than wars did to be "a minor player" |
Compare it with smallpox over the last 500 years or Yersinia pestis, or even Spanish flu 100 years ago-----It may be a predominant infectious disease today, but in the scheme of things----A MINOR PLAYER!
By the way, the 8th leading cause of death in the US year after year in the last 40 years is-----wait for it-----seasonal flu.