Then your author cites a speech on the floor of Congress as his evidence of deaths in the Philippines. I did a little research. It seems the facts given to Congress were wrong. While the deaths in 1919 were over 40,000 the numbers given by Dr Hay were the number who contracted smallpox in 1918 not the deaths in 1919.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20422367
Here are historically recorded deaths in the British medical journal. They also point out that prior to the start of the vaccination the number of deaths was typically over 40,000 per year. We see the deaths drop as the vaccination program is taken up, from the 40,000 per year under Spanish rule to less than 20,000 to less than 1,000 before there is a sudden increase in deaths in 1918-1919 and then it is less than 6,000 in 1920.
Your author cherry picks one year to try to make it appear that vaccines don't work while ignoring the other 15 years that prove they do work.
If you'd like to quote from your link, by all means do so. I'll quote the passage you're referring to from Gary Krasner's article:
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By 1919, England and Wales had become one of the least vaccinated countries, and had only 28 deaths from smallpox, out of a population of 37.8 million people. By contrast, during that same year, out of a population of 10 million—all triply vaccinated over the prior 6 years—the Philippine Islands registered 47,368 deaths from smallpox. The epidemic came after the culmination of a ruthless 15-year compulsory vaccination campaign by the U.S., in which the native population—young and old— were forcibly vaccinated (several times), literally against their will. In a speech condemning the smallpox vaccine reprinted in the Congressional Record of 12/21/37, William Howard Hay, M.D. said, “ . . . the Philippines suffered the worst attack of smallpox, the worst epidemic three times over, that had ever occurred in the history of the islands, and it was almost three times as fatal. The death rate ran as high as 60 per cent in certain areas, where formerly it had been 10 and 15 per cent.” In the province of Rizal, for example, smallpox mortalities increased from an average 3 per cent (before vaccination) to 67 per cent during 1918 and 1919. All told, after 10 years (1911-1920) of a compulsory U.S. program which administered 25 million vaccinations to the Philippine population of 10 million, there had been 170,000 cases, and more than 75,000 deaths from smallpox.
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In the Philippines when Spain was the power in charge and prior to the vaccination of the population 40,000 people per year were dying from smallpox.
Not so fast. I took a look at the journal article you linked to previously, written by Doctor John McVail. Quoting the relevant portion of his article:
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It is stated, on responsible authority, "that during the Spanish regime and for some years after the American occupation more than 40,000 deaths from small-pox occurred annually in the Phillipines."
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The first thing to pay attention to is who this "responsible authority" was. It turns out, it was one Viktor G. Heiser, who just happened to be the medical "consultant" in health to the Governor General in the Phillipines. Have you considered that there just -might- be a conflict of interest in said consultant trying to distort the truth with comforting lies?
If you hadn't, you might start considering it now, especially in light of what Doctor McVail writes almost immediately afterwards:
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It will be seen that the figures for the years 1915-20 have a general resemblance to those given by Sir Alfred Mond, but are not identical with them. While the disease is obviously endemic, the figures suggest that for a number of years prior to the epidemic of 1918-20[,] many provinces or islands may have had no small-pox, and in no year save 1919 is any approach made to the mortality of 40,000 said to have occurred during spanish rule.
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I think there's ample evidence here to strongly suspect that Viktor G. Heiser painted an extremely distorted picture of the actual yearly spread of small-pox deaths in order to obfuscate the fact that the most small-pox deaths occurred close to the end of the vaccination period, when the Phillipines had been under American occupation for some time. Incidentally, the charts that McVail came up with don't even have any recorded numbers for small-pox deaths prior to the American occupation of the Phillipines, which gets me to wonder as to where Dr. Heiser was getting his numbers from prior to said occupation.
Dr. McVail's article has 2 charts of deaths per year, and it's clear they don't exactly agree with each other, though they -do- agree that 1919 was by far the worst year with 44,000+ small-pox deaths, and the only year where small-pox deaths passed 19,000 deaths. Strange, don't you think, that the highest number of deaths was the year prior to ending vaccinations, after 9 years of forced vaccinations. One might be led to believe that far from helping the Phillipinos with small pox, it was actually contributing to their death counts from the disease.
Incidentally, I did the math using the second chart regarding the deaths via smallpox for the 10 years of the forced vaccination regime, and it comes close to Gary Krasner's number of 75,000 deaths- it's a little under 69,000. I suspect Gary may have used some of the numbers from the other chart or perhaps yet another chart that isn't mentioned in Dr. McVail's article.
There is also another huge elephant in the room here. What were the -living- conditions of the Phillipinos during all these years? I know that the medical establishment likes to dismiss such concerns, but I believe you have agreed that things such as sanitation and good nutrition are rather important in such matters.