{"id":18268,"date":"2018-03-19T12:43:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T02:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18268"},"modified":"2024-06-29T04:33:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T18:33:19","slug":"here-are-the-statistics-on-deaths-from-whooping-cough-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18268","title":{"rendered":"Here are the statistics on deaths from whooping cough in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COPIED &amp; PASTED from a non-share facebook page.<br \/>\nTake a quick trip over to the Australia Bureau of Statistics and have look at how many people really die each year from this &#8216;deadly&#8217; disease called whooping cough.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll be shocked.<br \/>\nHere are the actual figures, without the media hype:<br \/>\n2006 &#8211; 3 deaths no data<br \/>\n2007 &#8211; 0 deaths 5379 cases<br \/>\n2008 &#8211; 2 deaths 14435 cases<br \/>\n2009 &#8211; 3 deaths 29545 cases<br \/>\n2010 &#8211; 4 deaths 34285 cases<br \/>\n2011 &#8211; 3 deaths 38040 cases<br \/>\n2012 &#8211; 3 deaths 23885 cases<br \/>\n2013 &#8211; 2 deaths 12318 cases<br \/>\n2014 &#8211; 4 deaths 11842 cases<br \/>\n2015 &#8211; 3 deaths 22508 cases<br \/>\nNow do the maths. There are currently 24.3 million people in Australia. What is your child&#8217;s risk of getting whooping cough? Oh, you didn&#8217;t need to do the maths &#8211; you could immediately see it was extremely remote.<br \/>\nNow calculate the chance of dying if your child actually gets whooping cough.. the .000 of a percent is one hell of a scary figure isn\u2019t it? Fear sells vaccines, common sense and basic maths prove without a doubt that vaccines are nothing but poison sold by fear to the ignorant.<br \/>\nNow, for argument&#8217;s sake, I&#8217;m even going to allow you to claim that the rates are so low because of vaccination. (I&#8217;m too exhausted to fight.) If that&#8217;s what you believe, vaccinate your children. I have no issue with that.<br \/>\nBut I have a question for you:<br \/>\nAssuming the vaccine works, (which is contentious, to say the least) how many additional lives will be saved by forcing the 1% of conscientious objectors to vaccinate their children?<br \/>\nDo the maths. Oh, don&#8217;t need to &#8211; you can immediately see that<br \/>\nIT&#8217;S NOT EVEN ONE!<br \/>\nNow remember that the next time the media tries to whip you into a frenzied hatred of people who don&#8217;t vaccinate.<br \/>\nSource: Table 1.2 Underlying cause of death, All causes, Australia, 2006\u20132015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COPIED &amp; PASTED from a non-share facebook page. Take a quick trip over to the Australia Bureau of Statistics and have look at how many people really die each year from this &#8216;deadly&#8217; disease called whooping cough. You&#8217;ll be shocked. Here are the actual figures, without the media hype: 2006 &#8211; 3 deaths no data &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Here are the statistics on deaths from whooping cough in Australia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51503,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18268\/revisions\/51503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}