Vaccinations
Vaccinations
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 Vaccination
is a highly emotive and important issue. For some
vaccination is
hailed as one of the greatest inventions of the past few hundred years,
and credited with saving the world (e.g. see here, here, here). For
others, vaccination is misguided and even medically
unethical and criminally negligent. It is this viewpoint that receives
attention here, so you can be more fully informed. There are currently six sections:-
The decline of infectious disease is said to have occurred naturally and before vaccination - largely due to clean water, improved sanitation, less overcrowding, fridges, better nutrition and living conditions. For example, the eradication of smallpox happened naturally. See here (accessed 28 May 2013) for 200 years of official statistics and graphs, as well as heated discussions. [Also read this, this, and see here.]  19 Things You'll Want to Know Before You Vaccinate Mary Bloomer here (accessed 28 May 2013), written especially for the USA, but with great relevance for all of us:- 1. If your child is harmed or killed by a vaccine you cannot sue the manufacturer of the vaccine or the doctor. 2. If your child is harmed or killed by a vaccine, you’re on your own for medical expenses and therapies. 3. If you think VAERS (the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System) will provide a safety net, guess again. Two of every three submissions are excluded and the cases that are accepted linger in court for years. The system is designed to make you give up. 4. Having said that, for those brave parents who fought to the end, nearly two billion has been paid out in compensation. Where does the money in VAERS come from? From YOU – every vaccine has an excise tax (from $.75 – $2.25 depending on the vaccine) Shouldn’t the drug companies pay that? Silly me, that would take money from the lobbyists! 5. Vaccines contain very questionable ingredients like thimerosol which is 50% mercury (no it hasn’t been removed from all shots), aluminum, formaldehyde, polysorbate 80, antibiotics, yeast protein, fetal bovine serum, monosodium glutamate, chick embryo cell culture, aborted fetal tissue (WI-38 human diploid lung fibroblasts), egg protein, latex rubber, Latham medium derived from bovine casein (think milk allergy!) monkey kidney cells, 2-phenoxyethanol, pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain and many more! [Also see here, here, here, cartoon below.] 6. Vaccines are publicly traded pharmaceuticals – drug companies have an obligation to the shareholders to generate revenue. 7. Because you can’t sue the drug company for a vaccine reaction this is where the drug companies are putting their future profits. Forget new antibiotics, lets pump out more vaccines! 8. Just the Hep-B vaccine given to newborns makes ONE BILLION dollars annually for Merck and unless you’re an IV drug user or a prostitute, your child really doesn’t need it. 9. Once you vaccinate (and damage is done) you can’t un-vaccinate.
10. Thanks to better hygiene, clean water and sanitation, childhood illnesses like polio, measles and mumps, were all declining before the introduction of the vaccines (too much credit is given to vaccine efficacy!) 11. If you have older children and are considering adding the Gardasil HPV vaccine to your child’s vaccine schedule, it might interest you to know that 121 young girls (and one boy) have died from this vaccine and there have been nearly 27,500 injuries. 12. Read the package insert on the vaccine your child may receive BEFORE it’s given – pay close attention to the adverse reactions. 13. If you decide to vaccinate make certain you ask these eight questions from the National Vaccine Information Network before you proceed. 14. Vaccines by-pass the body’s normal immune response. When a child gets an illness like measles they have lifelong natural immunity. Vaccines provide only temporary immunity. 15. Antibodies in the blood stream do not necessarily mean immunity. This is likely why many outbreaks of measles and whooping cough occur in fully vaccinated children. 16. Vaccinating a child for chickenpox increases the chances of shingles as an adult. 17. Not all doctors think vaccines are safe and effective. 18. If you want to know if the number of vaccines your child will receive are right for your child, use this Vaccine Ingredients Calculator. 19. If you do vaccinate, learn to recognize the signs of a vaccine reaction.
Serum straight from the horse inoculation caricature The People's Chemist on Herd Immunity and why he doesn't vaccinate his children The People's Chemist (here, accessed 28 May 2013) gives three reasons why he doesn't vaccinate his children:-
 Ten Myths and Truths about Vaccination Ten myths and truths about vaccination by Alan Philips can be found here or here (both accessed 28 May 2013). Here is a summary:- (1) Myth = "Vaccines are
completely safe..." (2) Myth = "Vaccines are
very effective..." (3) Myth = "Vaccines are
the main reason for low
disease rates in the U.S. today..." (4) Myth = "Vaccination
is based on sound
immunization theory and practice..." (5) Myth = "Childhood
diseases are extremely
dangerous..." (6) Myth = "Polio was one
of the clearly great
vaccination success stories..." (7) Myth = "My child had
no short-term reaction to
vaccination, so there is nothing to worry about..." (8) Myth = "Vaccines are
the only disease
prevention option available..." (9) Myth = "Vaccinations
are legally mandated, and
thus unavoidable..." (10) Myth = "Public
health officials always place
health above all other concerns..."
The Hygiene Hypothesis, Building Immunity and Retreat A principle which I have followed is that exposure to local germs and disease can be an immune system building experience. Just make sure you lay the foundation with the likes of breastfeeding and healthy living. We especially need to encounter beneficial microbes. Modern society has separated us from or eliminated these, at the same time as destroying bad microbes. This happened alongside our separation from and extermination of nature. The hygiene hypothesis states
that a lack of early childhood exposure
to infectious agents, symbiotic microorganisms (e.g. gut flora or
probiotics), and parasites increases susceptibility to allergic
diseases by suppressing natural development of the immune system. (Wikipedia,
accessed 28 May 2013) [Also
see here,
here,
here,
here.]
Pox parties that were popular historically worked on a similar principle, that natural exposure produces natural immunity. [Also see Note 1.] However, in conditions where circumstances are dire (e.g. lack of food, lack of clean water, lack of sewerage, extreme inequality, political instability) - as in parts of Africa - the immune system may be extremely undermined and other methods may be relevant. Even then, adequate nutrition, good sanitation and clean water are likely to be more important than vaccination. Perhaps the best strategy with unknown diseases - after lifelong immune building and before pox parties - may be splitting into small groups and retreat (e.g. deep into the forest or onto an island). It is what some indigenous peoples instinctively did when confronted with Covid-19 - see here. Other examples: here.  The Yanomami often burn down their yano (communal house) when they migrate,
when fleeing from an epidemic or when an important leader dies (Claudia Andujar/Barbican Centre, The Guardian, posted and accessed 25 March 2021) The only way that modern society can poorly mimic this ancient practice is lockdowns. After all, insular countries fared better with Covid-19. If it later becomes evident that the new disease offers no harm to children, indeed that it is advantageous to contract it in childhood - unlike with Covid-19 it seems - let the pox parties begin. Anyway, my choice was not to vaccinate my children and to build immunity by, for example:-
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PWP has a pro-Nature stance. It is not a conspiracy theorist anti-vaxxer. PWP asserts Barry Commoner’s Third Law of Ecology = Nature knows best. Humankind has fashioned technology to improve upon nature, but such change in a natural system is likely to be detrimental to that system. ____________ "In order to understand the 'safety' of vaccines you have to know several things, including how a baby's immune system works from birth onwards, and what vaccines do biochemically in the body. That work has never been done." (Hilary Butler) ______________ Also see:- Vaccination Quotes Immune System Germ Theory Health articles The Ecology of Disease _____________ |
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