The Myth That Vaccines Saved Us
Death rates from virtually all major diseases fell nearly 100% before vaccines existed.
Ask people what they think did the most to save humanity from disease, and you’ll hear the same answer over and over: vaccines.
Like a mantra, we’re told that “vaccines have saved more human lives than any other medical invention in history”—an unassailable truth, reinforced by every authority imaginable.
And barely anyone checks whether it’s actually true.
Spoiler: it’s not.
Death rates collapsed before vaccines arrived
Thanks to better sanitation and rising living standards, death rates for virtually every major disease of the 20th century—measles, diphtheria, pertussis, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, and more—had already fallen by 90–100% before their respective vaccines were introduced. Some of these diseases never had a vaccine at all.
In other words, vaccines can’t take credit for improvements that already happened.
Measles
Diphtheria
Pertussis (whooping cough)
Tuberculosis
Scarlet fever
The same pattern appears wherever we have data—not just in the U.S., but also in England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, France, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Australia, and New Zealand.
The idea that vaccines “saved millions of lives” in the U.S. falls apart once you look at the actual death counts. The table below shows deaths in the year before each vaccine was licensed. Numbers were already small and trending lower. There simply weren’t millions of lives left to save.
Moving the goalposts
Faced with the reality that vaccines don’t live up to the hype, vaccine zealots will move the goalposts.
Okay, fine—death rates were already dropping before vaccines… but look at the number of cases!
Don’t let incidence numbers fool you
Given that vaccines were clearly not responsible for the massive declines in mortality, defenders pivot to case counts or morbidity as evidence of vaccine success. Yet historical case reporting was inconsistent at best. Deaths, by contrast, are concrete events, legally recorded, and therefore far more reliable.
But even if we take incidence numbers at face value, the metric becomes largely meaningless once mortality has already collapsed. By the 1960s, measles deaths had fallen by 99% without a vaccine, and severe polio cases were rare long before mass vaccination.
The diagnostic shell game
Disease definitions often change after a vaccine’s introduction, creating the illusion that the vaccine eliminated the disease—when in reality, only the diagnostic criteria shifted.
Consider polio. Before the vaccine, temporary muscle weakness sufficed for a polio diagnosis. After the introduction of the vaccine in 1955, only cases with paralysis lasting 60+ days counted. Those cases that would have previously been called polio got relabeled as viral meningitis, transverse myelitis, Guillain-Barré, and more.
Conclusion
Death rates for virtually every major disease fell nearly 100% before their respective vaccines existed. Vaccines didn’t cause the decline—they arrived after it had already happened and then claimed the credit.
Proponents try to distract from this reality by pointing to falling case counts as proof vaccines “worked”, but these drops usually reflect narrower diagnostic criteria, not a genuine reduction in illness. Once a vaccine exists, doctors are far less likely to diagnose a vaccinated patient with the very disease the shot was meant to prevent, so they typically call it something else.
Bottom line: death rates fell before the shots even existed. The rest is marketing.
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This is good as a myth-buster.
However, it leaves untouched the greater myth: that submicroscopic, infectious agents called viruses are the cause of various diseases and that these misattributed diseases are contagious.
Neither are true. The causes of many illnesses remains unclear, but in no case has scientific evidence of the existence of any virus been provided. Furthermore, despite occasionally seeing evidence consistent with contagion / transmission, whenever this is formally examined, evidence of contagion has never been found.
Given this backdrop, it’s hardly surprising that “flu vaccines” do nothing at all to incidence, severity, hospitalisation or death from flu.
What’s much more malignant still is this: the authorities do know all this. We’re not in the position where benevolent, well meaning people have striven to do their best for citizens.
No. They’ve conspired, using our tax money, to permit the creation of medical non-products, which legally can contain anything at all, and persisted in maintaining the myth that it’s important for your child’s health that they are injected scores of times.
No “vaccine” has helped a single person because the entire notion is fraudulent and the injected products are neither tested nor regulated properly.
Vaccines are the biggest psyop ever. These things are crammed with toxins and poisons.