When we cite the Parks chart, the argument is not that it shows that measles was already declining in prevalence. The point is that measles was not a terribly dangerous disease with proper care & nutrition. The few hundred annual deaths at the end of the measles era were mostly in the Missiippi Delta and other areas of deep poverty. For most children it was a mild disease. The picture you present is an extreme case. As you say, it is a question of relative risks and benefits. The risks are hard to assess, because we don't have reliable data. Those of us in the vaccine-skeptic world have seen countless instances of parents whose children get the MMR or some other vaccine, experience horrible reactions, are assured by the doctor it is coincidence... the same old story. It isn't that the parents have suddenly lost their faculties. It is that something so horrible and obvious happened to their children that they abandoned their previous belief in vaccines. The pharmico-scientific establishment has no incentive to collect accurate data on vaccine risks. In fact, they have financial and ideological incentives to the contrary. That means that if they are much riskier than we are told, we would have no way to know that. There are vanishingly few studies that compare long-term all-cause mortality and chronic illness between vaccinated and unvaccinated cohorts. The studies are not done because they are considered unethical (because we already know vaccines are beneficial and it is unethical to deprive children of them). You can find a few if you look for them, and what they show is not pretty. None are gold-standard though. The shenanigans of the vaccine industry that we are seeing with the Covid shots are nothing new. They have been manipulating research for a long time. For a long time, skeptical doctors and scientists have been persecuted, defunded, fired, and investigated. Please keep an open mind on this issue. I'm sure we "anti-vaxxers" will keep reading and enjoying your trenchant criticism of Covid orthodoxy regardless. We don't want to distract you from your good work, or get us all bogged down in in-fighting. Still, please keep an open mind.