02-02-2016, 12:45 PM
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Originally posted by PaulW
Yeah, measles schmeasles.
Measles affects about 20 million people a year,[1] primarily in the developing areas of Africa and Asia.[4]
Though some will disagree, Hawaii is not a developing area of Africa and Asia. So should this affectation stat have anything to do with a mandatory Hawaii vaccination law? And divide 20 million by 7 billion for some perspective. That's an interesting decimal.
PaulW: down from 545,000 deaths in 1990.
Pick your link and put it into perspective:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs310/en/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ca...th_by_rate
"Kill one person, it's murder. Kill a million, it's a statistic." --Stalin?
But compared to WWII it's not that bigga deal.
The government deciding that they can put something into your bloodstream is worthy of some consideration. Yeah, I guess that's what I mean. Undecided, clearly, but worthy of consideration.
Cheers,
Kirt