zlacker

You are talking a different time scale. Take a look at this figure from the article:

https://rootsofprogress.org/img/mckeown-1975-fig-6.png

Modern medicine and vaccines have undeniably reduced the occurrence and severity of diseases, but the occurrences of these diseases were already down over 90% by the time we came up with vaccines. It's not wrong to recognize that tremendous achievement.

>>dahfiz+(OP)
Furthermore, it indicates that we do not need to paint vaccine hesitant people as harbingers of societal collapse. That belief has been used to justify hateful rhetoric that is divisive, unproductive, and cruel to those who believe they were injured by vaccines.