152 - The Anti-Vaccination Movement

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Infectious disease. The number one murderer of humankind. By far! Nasty little viruses and other pathogens have killed more people than any other single cause of death each and every year prior to the advent of arguably the greatest invention ever - the vaccine. Vaccines have prevented millions and millions of deaths. So why are more and more people choosing NOT to vaccinate? And what are the repercussions of this decision for us all? The history of infectious disease, vaccinations, and the anti-vaccination movement explored and explained in the most important Timesuck yet. Hail Nimrod! Donating $2800 this month to the Impulse Youth Arts Organization! http://www.impulseyoutharts.org/ Come to my standup special taping at Crofoot in Detroit on Friday, October 18th. Two shows! First is at 6:30PM: https://bit.ly/2N3E1tP . Second show is at 9PM: https://bit.ly/2FoADU6 Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: (full calendar at http://dancummins.tv) ** September 13th Chicago Thalia Hall CLICK HERE for tix ** August 29 Los Angeles The Comedy Store Hollywood, CA CLICK HERE for tix! August 30 - September 1st San Diego The Comedy Store La Jolla, CA CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by the following sponsors: Audible! Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and get your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals for FREE. Text TIMESUCK to 500-500 or CLICK HERE The Great Courses Plus! Get a free trial when you go to thegreatcoursesplus.com/TIMESUCK Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/EusoakmaZ9Q Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're over 5000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	Over 108 million people were killed in all the wars of the 20th century. 108 million.
0:06.5	But the totality of those deaths pales in comparison to the total lives lost to infectious disease,
0:11.6	contagious viruses and bacteria tag teamed to kill 1.68 billion people in the 20th century alone.
0:20.0	Over one and a half billion meat sex in just a hundred years. Only non-communicable diseases like
0:25.6	heart disease and diabetes killed more people in the 20th century. And before the 20th century,
0:30.5	nothing killed more meat sex prematurely than infectious diseases, not even non-communicable diseases.
0:37.7	Here's some statistical perspective on just how ruthless infectious diseases have been.
0:42.4	The best estimate we have for the total number of humans killed in wars for the entirety
0:46.8	of meat-sac history is anywhere from 150 million to 1 billion. A lot of people,
0:52.6	but contagious diseases may have killed over a hundred times that many. While there's no way to
0:57.2	prove this was certainty, some historians have estimated that malaria alone may have killed up to half
1:03.2	of all of the people who have ever lived. Half of all meat-sacs. Over the past 52,000 years,
1:11.8	some disease historians have guesstimated that roughly 110 billion meat-sacs have walked the earth,
1:17.6	which would mean that malaria alone may have killed roughly 55 billion people.
1:23.2	Mortality experts are certain that nothing, nothing, has come anywhere fucking close to killing
1:28.8	more humans than infectious diseases. If there were a poster for public enemy, number one for
1:33.6	humanity overall, it wouldn't be a picture of a serial killer or a dictator or a weapon. It will
1:38.0	be a virus. Historically, the grim reaper's favorite way to harvest souls has been infectious disease.
1:44.8	As recently as 1900 infectious diseases such as pneumonia and fluenza, tuberculosis,
1:49.7	gastrointestinal infections, and diuteria have caused 52.74% of all deaths in the United States.
1:57.3	Infectious disease killing even more people than natural causes. And this percentage only grows
2:02.4	higher the further you venture back in history. All 10 are the leading causes of death in 1850
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