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.
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