There's a mythology around 'sterilising' vaccines. That they're like a silver bullet, allowing us to wash our…

There's a mythology around 'sterilising' vaccines. That they're like a silver bullet, allowing us to wash our hands (ha) of any other public health work. Measles a good example. https://t.co/wW6alVIlTu 1/4 https://t.co/e3H7frpagr

The control guidelines for measles are extensive. They include things like isolation of people. They openly talk about outbreaks, as below. Sterilising vaccines don't remove all other public health work. They're an integrated part of that control. 2/4 https://t.co/AhOauCBCDt

Most of our lives this other control work has been invisible to most of us. It's why it was so easy to refuse to do any control, for Covid. Many didn't even realise how absurd that was, it seemed like the world they were already living in. 3/4

Most disease control is about slowing spread of disease. Not entirely eradicating it. To restrict it to sporadic outbreaks, controlled using tehniques at the micro level we initially apply at the macro level, for a pandemic like Covid. Exponential decay does the rest. /end