The Importance Of Vaccines
These days the debate on vaccines is growing more heated as each day passes. Some Americans, many of whom are concerned parents, argue that the overuse of vaccinations at an early age can lead to the development of a form of Autism and has even led to a widespread movement of parents refusing to vaccinate their children. Those who continue to support vaccinations rebuke this idea stating that there is no scientific proof that vaccinations are a leading cause of autism and other learning disorders. Vaccines save lives, they say, not take them. In the piece above it shows obvious support for the argument that vaccines are a successful, reasonable solution to eradicate or simply avoid contraction
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Farrant could have used red and green instead of red and black in his piece, but the use of red and black is more effective because the overwhelming amount of black signifies a lack of disease in our society today. The point of Farrant's inforgraphic is to show how much the health of our country has improved since vaccines were widely put into place. The comparison of today's lack of death due to these diseases with the extent of death due to these diseases before vaccines is made more perceptible by distinctly coloring the deaths in red and leaving the empty space as black. Likewise, Farrant drives the point home that this decrease of morbidity in the vaccine era is due to vaccines by using the symbol of the syringe, rather than a pie chart or line graph. Also, Farrant exhaustively addresses the morbidity rates for each disease that children are supposed to be vaccinated against in the vaccine era. By delineating the morbidity, reports of cases, and percent decrease for each of the 14 diseases, the viewer is left with the perception that vaccines are helping to protect us against all of these diseases. Each of these disease has been effectively prevented by the administration of vaccines. If Farrant had excluded the percent decrease in each disease from his infographic, the message would not have been as strong. It is very difficult to
Farrant could have used red and green instead of red and black in his piece, but the use of red and black is more effective because the overwhelming amount of black signifies a lack of disease in our society today. The point of Farrant's inforgraphic is to show how much the health of our country has improved since vaccines were widely put into place. The comparison of today's lack of death due to these diseases with the extent of death due to these diseases before vaccines is made more perceptible by distinctly coloring the deaths in red and leaving the empty space as black. Likewise, Farrant drives the point home that this decrease of morbidity in the vaccine era is due to vaccines by using the symbol of the syringe, rather than a pie chart or line graph. Also, Farrant exhaustively addresses the morbidity rates for each disease that children are supposed to be vaccinated against in the vaccine era. By delineating the morbidity, reports of cases, and percent decrease for each of the 14 diseases, the viewer is left with the perception that vaccines are helping to protect us against all of these diseases. Each of these disease has been effectively prevented by the administration of vaccines. If Farrant had excluded the percent decrease in each disease from his infographic, the message would not have been as strong. It is very difficult to