Reply #31: Of course they made money, but it's only been [View All]

[DemBones DemBones]

in the past twenty years or so that drug prices have skyrocketed. CEO salaries have gone through the roof since the first polio vaccine came out in the mid-Fifties.

As for benefits. . . Some research has suggested that many of the chronic disabling diseases like multiple sclerosis, lupus, fibromyalgia, that have become so common among baby boomers can be traced back to tainted polio vaccines. IIRC, measles vaccine is one of the vaccines that has been associated with the rise of autism cases in the past twenty or thirty years.

If either or both of those assertions prove to be true, it will show that many people were harmed by the vaccines.

Many people now living survived measles, mumps, rubella, and chicken pox without serious effects. Those diseases can have very serious effects, of course, and can cause death. It may be impossible to ever say whether it was better to have the diseases or to have the vaccine.

Many people now living also survived polio, although most people who had polio suffered a lot and many continue to suffer ("post-polio syndrome" has brought them new pain as they age.) On the other hand, many other people never got polio during the epidemics. Did the vaccine actually keep them from contracting polio after they received it or did they just have immune systems that were for some reason resistant to polio?

There's a lot we just don't know. I am definitely more suspicious of vaccines and medications than I once was.