First of all, I want to start by saying that no one bought into pharmaceuticals and conventional medicine more than I did growing up. My father was a family doctor for 40 years before he retired and whenever I had scratch in my throat, I would run to our medicine drawer and grab a sample prescription antibiotic. I thought I was the picture of health and lucky to have such quick access to antibiotics. I was wrong. I haven’t touched an antibiotic in years, thanks to my discovery of Echinacea and with all the vitamins I take, I’m hardly ever sick anyway.
This is my opinion, as a mom who watched her son regress at 2 years old. I have nothing to gain by either supporting or not supporting vaccines. A pediatrician has a completely different take on vaccines. They are taught to give them out per the mandated schedule to fight viruses; they buy into Pasteur’s Germ Theory of kill or be killed. This what they are paid to do and how they spend the majority of every day- giving vaccines to babies and boosters to kids per the schedule. They will defend this ritual no matter what evidence you give to the contrary. It is useless to argue with them. And they, along with the pharmaceutical companies, are immune from liability from any adverse reactions.
Today our children receive about 30 vaccines from birth to two years old. In the ‘70’s when I was growing up, I received about 8 vaccines up to school age. And yet here I am, alive to tell about it! I had chicken pox as a child; back then it was considered a normal right of passage. People will argue that their kid almost died of chicken pox and to that I say, seriously? For every person that says they had a terrible case of chicken pox; I’ll bet there are many more children who died from a vaccine “hot lot” or adverse reaction. Further, I have a lifetime of immunity to chickenpox; my kids do not. Vaccination does not equal immunization. The pharmaceutical industry and medical profession use vaccination and immunization interchangeably, on purpose, but they are not one in the same.
What about the thousands of viruses that we do not get vaccinated for? What about small pox, tuberculosis, where are the epidemics?? There used to be vaccines for those a long, long time ago, but they were failures and taken off the market, because they caused the diseases that they were supposed to prevent- and actually caused many infant deaths. There is no proof that the current vaccines prevent disease or give any lasting immunity. That is one of the reasons so many boosters are required. The maximum potency for a vaccine is estimated at 6-10 years; probably more like 6 months to 1 year for most kids and probably nothing for our ASD kids. The pharmaceutical industry doesn’t really know how long they last and there are numerous documented outbreaks of such viruses as measles and whooping cough among fully vaccinated populations of children.
No baby needs a hepatitis B shot the day they are born, unless they are going to use a dirty needle anytime soon. There may be no point at all in injecting our kids with attenuated viruses and neurotoxins. I would argue that with the rapid increase of autoimmune disease in children under 4 as well as the alarming increases in autism spectrum disorder, that vaccines are causing more problems than they are curing. This is a $30+ billion dollar industry with no proof that vaccines even work and no liability should they fail. We can thank the Supreme Court for that decision made in early 2011. By the way, you pay for Vaccine Court rulings via a surcharge on every vaccine. To those die-hard vaccine supporters I say this: Where is the double-blind placebo study showing clear evidence that our current mandated vaccine schedule as a whole is safe and effective for every single child, everywhere??
On the governments website they say that The Vaccine Safety Datalink project was established by the CDC in 1990 “to monitor immunization safety and address the gaps in scientific knowledge about rare and serious events following immunization.” That statement doesn’t give me a whole lot of confidence about the prospects of vaccination. And it makes our children look like guinea pigs or test subjects for the vaccine schedule, because the VSD project is in essence a database of vaccine outcomes and the information contained is never made public, not even under subpoena from plaintiffs seeking justice in Vaccine Court. This is not what I had in mind for my children when I went to the pediatrician for well visits.
When I would fill-in at my dad’s office; I would see chart after chart with a big pink sticker reading: allergic to penicillin; allergic to codeine, etc. If these pharmaceutical drugs are not acceptable for everyone, why is every child subjected to these vaccines, regardless of susceptibility? My pediatrician wouldn’t let me give my kids peanut butter or honey for the first few years; yet they repeatedly injected known neurotoxins directly into their bloodstream. Does that make sense? Forget about the lead found in toys made in China; this is far worse! I don’t think vaccines are necessary at all, for anyone and the risk of encephalopathy is not worth the false promise of immunity. Frankly, I would rather my son had chicken pox than autism any day.
Quotes From the Experts on Vaccine Safety and Efficacy:
In one study, serious reactions to the DPT vaccine (including grand mal epilepsy and encephalopathy) were shown to be as high as 1 in 600. In another study, approximately one out of every 200 children who received the full DPT series suffered severe reactions. Immunization: Survey of Recent Research, (United States Department of Health and Human Services, April 1983), p. 76.
Measles vaccination produces immune suppression, which contributes to an increased susceptibility to other infections. Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology, May 1996; 79(2): 163-170.
From the textbook, Autoimmune Neurological Disease: "A wide variety of vaccines have been reported to trigger ADEM (acute disseminated encephalomyelitis) or acute transverse myelitis, including influenza, measles, rubella, pneumococcal, recombinant hepatitis B, and tetanus toxoid vaccines."
A 1994 report from the Institute of Medicine that said it was biologically plausible for a vaccine to "induce... an autoimmune response... by nonspecific activation of the T cells directed against myelin proteins."
On April 11, 2010, the government set up a task force between the HHS, the CDC, the FDA and the NIH to further research vaccinations as “triggers for neurological deterioration.”
In 2006, The Journal of Immunotoxicology concluded: "Documented causes of autism include genetic mutations and/or deletions, viral infections, and encephalitis following vaccination."
"There is insufficient evidence to support routine vaccination of healthy persons of any age." - Paul Frame, M.D., Journal of Family Practice
"Official data shows that large scale vaccination has failed to obtain any significant improvement of the diseases against which they were supposed to provide protection" - Dr. Sabin, developer of Polio vaccine.
A case-control study has shown that 41 percent of meningitis occurred in children vaccinated against the disease. The vaccine's protective efficacy was minus 58 percent. This means that children are much more likely to get the disease if they are vaccinated. (Journal of the American Medical Assocoation, 1988, Osterholm et al., 260: 1423-1428.)
