700 measles cases in 2024 in Texas. 44 cases in 2002 in the whole US. I hope that puts the number into perspective for you. And the reason measles was such a breeze for you as a kid is because, as you said yourself, you were vaccinated.
If you're pulling the religion card, I'm Christian, my entire communion is fully vaccinated, don't.
If you're pulling the "my body is a temple" card, you are not immune to disease. Egyptian Pharaohs died of smallpox, medieval peasants suffered and died from diseases like smallpox, dysentary, cholera, syphilis. You're just plain wrong. And the aversion you have for modern medicine should really apply to any food you didn't grow/slaughter yourself. Because if the gvt wanted to put trackers in you, they could just put them in apples or something. They wouldn't need covid vaccines to do that.
If you're pulling the "Big Pharma is scamming me" card, in here in the UK we have the NHS. It's a state run and funded healthcare system, and has a direct incentive to keep costs as low as possible but public health as high as possible, because people expect a certain standard of health, but if money can be spent in welfare or tax cuts whilst maintaining that health standard, it will. One of the main ways the NHS does this is vaccinations, because it's far cheaper to vaccinate someone for £100 every 10 years than care for them if they have something like measles and aren't vaccinated. Big Pharma makes far more money from an unvaccinated person paying for care and drugs than a vaccinated person who won't really have to bother with anything past bed rest if they get the disease.
As for how many lives vaccines have saved, from 1893-97, in Spain, 563 people per 1 million died of Smallpox, as vaccinations were unpopular there and believed not to work. By comparison, in Germany, one of the most heavily vaccinated areas at the time, over the same time period, that figure was 1.5 people per million. So over 5 years, at least 500 lives per million were saved by vaccines meaning 100 per million per year. In 2005, global population was 6.5bn. Some simple maths gives that, assuming smallpox hadn't been eradicated (which was because of vaccines), 650,000 per year. Multiply that by 20 to get to modern day and you get 2.5 million people since 2005. That's ignoring all other diseases, the 1.5bn extra people the population has grown by since then, and the entirety of the 20th century. So vaccines have saved at least 2.5 million lives.
