Posted on 03/21/2019 10:46:24 AM PDT by rickmichaels
A significant new study out of Denmark last week confirmed once again that there is no evidence the MMR (mumps, measles, rubella) vaccine causes autism. In fact, just the opposite seems to be the case: children who received the shot were seven per cent less likely to develop autism than those who did not.
If the results of that study don’t do anything to slow the metastasizing of anti-vaccine sentiment, including in North America, you might find an explanation in last week’s other big news event: the opening of the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, which began as a music festival for independent artists but has evolved into a massive film/tech/lifestyle/trade-show gathering of the hipster clans.
This year’s version has a Wellness Expo component, with 171 participating brands. Events include conversations with the founder of Caulipower (makers of a gluten-free, cauliflower-crust pizza) and a speech by the CEO of a company that sells, among other things, a chromium-infused “thermogenic elixir” at a price of $65 for a case of six 473ml bottles. And of course Gwyneth Paltrow was there, launching a Goop pop-up store and having a fireside chat with Poppy Harlow of CNN.
The connection might not be obvious, but the surging popularity of the “wellness” movement is just part of a wide and deep strain of anti-science flakery in our culture that implicates almost all of us on one way or another. If we want to understand why we have so much trouble with vaccine denialism, it might be worth starting by admitting that we’re all part of the problem.
It is impossible to overstate the impact of public vaccination programs. In an era that saw enormous advances on a number of fronts, mass immunization was probably the single greatest public health initiative of the 20th century.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
The CDC suggests 12 vaccinations for infants up to 4 months old, or 3 per month for the first 4 months of life. The average 4 month old infant is 15 pounds, 24 inches.
Stop it with the collective blame. It denies individual responsibility and justifies total destruction and alteration of society to fix ever more niche issues.
It seems idiotic to do that to babies...doctors should be refusing
I thought I read that the anti-vaccination phenomenon was created by Russian propagandists.
How many of these so-called anti vaxxers are there? They talk like there are hundreds of thousands, but do they know? Any reliable estimates?
Why no mention of the totally exposed third worlders coming in her by the thousands every week? Not only are they vulnerable to disease, but many times they bring in diseases that have long been eliminated here in the lower 48 on top of diseases most of us have never even heard of.
Yes they should.
So.....presumably you believe the vaccines are safe and they work. So you presumably have had them. And thus you are presumably immune to all of these horrible things.
If I disagree and do not get the vaccine and get sick and die as a result, it’s no skin off of your nose. If you are as you claim immune, then what are you afraid of?
Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.
I’m not even anti-vaccinations, but this article is a pathetic, childish, illogical, mess. If these supposed pro-vaccination people continue this kind of infantile garbage, they’ll push many to the other side.
Socialist writing is focused on collective everything.
+1
One good reason to get vaccinated is because a lot of the bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics. Oldsters should get Prevnar13 plus Pneumovax23 which prevent bacterial pneumonia.
If I disagree and do not get the vaccine and get sick and die as a result, it’s no skin off of your nose. If you are as you claim immune, then what are you afraid of?
Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.
This!
My daughter hasn’t gotten her kids all their vaccinations yet. She does believe in it but not at the pace that CDC recommends.
After my 26 years in the military I refuse to get any more shots unless absolutely necessary. I’ve had one since I retired and that was for pain.
Use your guns, via your police forces, to come and force me to vaccinate. Don’t consider my clear God given right to decide whether to allow bizarre chemical blends to be shot right past my skin and other bodily defensive barriers.
Government is force. It uses armed men to compel others to
do its bidding. Using this force for unworthy cases is evil.
“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a handy servant and a dangerous master.”
—George Washington
I had the new shingles shot and was nearly comatose for 3 days and feeling lame a week afterwards. Not sure if I’m going for part 2 or not.
Can you imagine a two and one half pound preemie hospitalized for months trying to grow, mature.....and being subjected to multiple vaccines ?
I can, and her parents were told she could not leave the hospital unless they found a pediatrician who would sign off NOT giving her multiple vaccinations before she left the hospital and until she matured more...
And they did!.......and she thrived....
....the good doctor spaced her vaccines reasonably.......she thrived
How many people do you know who have had smallpox? polio?
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