It would be cheaper to treat some of these diseases as they occur than to vaccinate EVERYBODY.
citation please
Don't go inserting rational thought and mathematics into a thread where the nanny staters are virtue signaling and vilifying free society because it has flaws.
Yeah, cheaper for a people to writhe pain, their bodies wracked with unnecessary disease, than to immunize everyone.
Save a lotta money that way.
Any other bright money saving ideas?
And you know, airbags and seat belts add a few thousand dollars per car. We could save a lot of money by not installing them and then just treating the injuries! LOL
Tetanus isn’t one of them.
“It is estimated that tetanus causes 213 000 – 293 000 deaths worldwide each year and that it is responsible for 5–7% of all neonatal deaths3,18 and 5% of maternal deaths globally. ... The highest tetanus risk in Europe is found in the elderly unvaccinated or partially vaccinated population and among injecting drug users.”
I’m not sure of your supposed math there... For proper comparison, you’d have to go back to statistics from before vaccinations to make the right comparisons and then apply it to our modern medical machine.
For example, it was put forward when measles was effectively a dead disease in the US that it would be far cheaper to simply treat the occasional outbreak than it would be to continue the measles vaccination of all children.
In a way, some parents put that theory to the test by denying their children vaccinations, and we’ve had quite a few outbreaks since then. Each has cost tens of millions of dollars (the one centered at Disneyland supposedly cost just over a hundred million.)
The source material’s assertion that this was the first tetanus bacteria infection treated in Oregon in 30 years (no published report to back that up) would say the math is simple - paying a million to treat this one child vs tens of millions to vaccinate children against the infection - far cheaper to treat one child.
Or it is evidence that the smaller investment to vaccinate children vs the possibly very expensive treatment for the unvaccinated is all the justification the programs need.
I’m not a real supporter of the police state. I’m very much into personal responsibility. The area where I struggle the most is where a person is caring for someone who is unable to care for themselves.
Gee, I don’t know. I’d rather pay $20 to $50 for a shot to prevent a disease than $1,000,000 to get cured from one, but that is just me.