Hey Peacenlove, you seem to mix up or interchange death rates and infection rates and raw data pretty well.
Nice to see Dr Tenpenny just saying numbers. Where did she get her 2/million death rate?
Is she saying that 1/500k infections resulted in death or that 1/500k population died from measles infection?
Those are very different stat's, with very different implications, considering that measles is mostly a disease that affects younger people and children.
From the CDC data, it's clear that your claims "that deaths from almost all communicable diseases were reduced to almost zero BEFORE vaccines were introduced" are inaccurate.
More like that they were reduced from extremely common, to less likely but still high.
Around 450 deaths from at least 400K reported infections. (Yes they believe there may have been 4 million cases in the USA, but that means a death rate of around 1/9000 infections)
www.cdc.gov/measles/about/questions.htmlCDC_AAref_Val=
www.cdc.gov/measles/about/faqs.htmlen.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles_resurgence_in_the_United_States
It's clear that there were significant improvements in health and disease management in the early 20th century, we agree here, the data and plenty of studies back this up.
Not sure why you keep saying that people don't accept this? Why do you spouting "The vaccine Cult would like us to believe that vaccines drove this decline but that is a total falsehood."?
Anyway, after those improvements were realised in the early 20th century, there was still hundreds of thousands or possibly even millions of infections every year into the 1960s.
These resulted in hundreds of deaths, mostly in children.
Even today, there's not much we can do to treat measles. From the WHO "There is no specific treatment for measles. Caregiving should focus on relieving symptoms, making the person comfortable and preventing complications. "
www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/measles I notice your comment that included claiming the WHO says Vitamin A cures measles has been removed. Is that because you checked the above link and noticed that was not correct?
In any case, I'm glad you agree that mmr vaccination reduces infection rates, thereby reducing the number of people who can contract the disease.
"All the vaccine did was reduce the infection incidence"
Because that's reducing the number of people who end up dying from it, having lifelong problems, being hospitalised, having the immune system trashed etc.