Many people are harmed by vaccines. Giving babies so many vaccines at the same time or over such a short period of time doesn’t seem safe to me. So much trouble with it there has to be a “Vaccine Court”.
Actually the number of people harmed by vaccines is incredibly low especially when you consider the millions of people vaccinated each year.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/feb/03/bob-sears/what-cdc-statistics-say-about-vaccine-illnesses-in/
I would ask those using statistics that describe human beings in any context to please do so with an abundance of humility. Things change when your loved ones are one of the few.
I buried my daughter because of a vaccine reaction. She was 2 months old. The chief coroner of LA county said it was the worst case of infant pneumonia he’d ever seen in his 30 years. From onset of symptoms based on when she ate (she always ate lying prone), they figure it took barely 2 hours for her to pass.
Do I think science or medicine should be halted or curtailed because a few may not achieve optimal results or may, in fact, die in the pursuit of simple, preventative care? No.
I do, however, believe that NO industry should be allowed blanket immunity. Right now, only two industries in the US have that: fracking and the vaccine industry. Fracking got its immunity via a legislative back door of sorts. Vaccines, on the other hand, brazenly as an industry went to Congress and said point blank that if they didn’t get blanket immunity from prosecution, they would move ALL manufacturing overseas. In case of a pandemic, we’d be aced. Congress caved. So now, vaccines are barely tested and they don’t have to work. Not legally. It is perfectly legal for a vaccine to give you cancer, make you infertile, kill you or to simply not work and still leave you vulnerable to subsequent infection (hence the recent spate of “boosters” when vaccines were supposed to offer lifelong immunity from the same strain of disease).
I’m all for science.
I feel I am honoring my daughter when I continue to call for exceedingly tough standards on ANYTHING we put into our bodies, INCLUDING vaccines.
And no, I no more trust the self reported lab tests of Big Pharma making vaccines than I do for anything else they have a profit motive to lie about.
We need robust independent testing AND we need to know that what we put into our bodies is safe and efficacious.
Seems like a job for science.
The current state of the FDA and CDC simply asking for results and maybe conducting tests is unacceptable. If there is an outbreak or some anomaly, there are systemic reporting barriers which make even acknowledging a problem difficult. Then the industry lobbies to cut the NIH, CDC, and FDAs funding so that they don’t have the resources to adequately test and monitor.
This is BIG BUSINESS.
So, when people defend vaccines, are they just blanket defending the corporate vaccine industry that in every instance has NOT been about the science OR are they defending the idea that if vaccines were done properly (they are not currently), they should be universal?
It’s a tougher question to answer when you are already down one and people glibly say, “only a few die each year…” It’s a less compelling argument when it’s not abstract and the likely reason was corporate malfeasance.
By the way, there are real concerns and real answers on how to do it better, but because vaccines mean so much money for pediatricians on the current set schedule, most won’t even see kids who can’t or won’t be on that vaccine schedule.
Sorry, I wasn’t even gonna comment, but when I see things like “it only affects a few” as if those few human beings didn’t matter, as if their deaths don’t count… Well, I had to respond to that…cuz they do…every last one of them matters.
And, the necessary equivocation, I’ve been consistent when it comes to human lives here and abroad, young and old…I didn’t even want them to take out Bin Laden…I wanted him to stand trial.
Sports is the crucible of human virtue. The distillate remains are human vice.
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