[s1k3b8]

> If that’s true, at what point do we stop vaccinating for it?

We stop when we have a way to actually cure the disease or we create a society where people aren't living on top of each other.

Just like industrial farming requires mass vaccination and heavy antibiotic use due to high animal concentration, humans need to be vaccinated since industrial society requires massive concentration of people in urban areas.

In a 100 years, if medical science can identify vulnerable individuals or actually cure these diseases, we won't need mass vaccination. But until then mass vaccination is the only option. Current scientific knowledge doesn't allow us to keep tens of millions of people in a small area without vaccination.

[adrianN]

Diseases were doing pretty well even before tens of millions of people were living in close proximity.

[s1k3b8]

Sure. But diseases do even better when people are concentrated, especially infectious diseases which are the prime targets of vaccines.