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I am not pro-vaccine at all, but diseases did wiped out large number of people in past history.

Human population had gone straight-up since 1900s.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/population-boom-charting-nearly-8-billion-people/

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The VAST majority of the eradication of those diseases came before vaccines were introduced. The reason why is because of widespread sanitation such as community water and sewage systems. The saviors of mankind from these diseases are the engineers and laborers who designed and installed these systems all over the world. Add to the the year-round availability of nutritious food via shipping. Here's one of many graphs from public health agencies:

https://drsuzanne.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/us-deaths-1900-19651.jpg

This is the article that the graph is from:

https://drsuzanne.net/dr-suzanne-humphries-vaccines-vaccination/

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Coincidence and illusion.

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Maybe also vaccines created in the past were not designed to be harmful or deadly ?

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The antivax movement is hundreds of years old for a reason: they've always been harmful and deadly. Here's a good explanation of how bad the smallpox vaccine was during its alleged days of "success". Note the many parallels to the covid vaccine.

https://kirschsubstack.com/p/what-we-can-learn-from-the-smallpox?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web

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