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the only thing people die of today being MRSA is due to vaccination doing a great job at eliminating everything else.

in a pre vaccine pre antibiotics world, every time you get dirt into an open wound, you run the risk of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetanus

thats not hyperbole. it looks like hyperbole to you because vaccines.

as far as I know, the vaccination for tetanus is not under threat from antibiotic resistance of people taking penicillin from the flu. - or even being under any resistance threat at all.

the hyperbole part is trying to sell a world where a minor scrape leads to death. SURE, its possible (but very unlikely) that could happen, but that could happen under any circumstance anyways.

if you take away tetanus vaccination, a lot of people will die from random scratches. if you dont take it away, then no.

antibiotics resistances dont make bacteria immune to vaccination. entirely different mechanism.

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