Posted on 05/09/2014 6:18:00 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA
I was brought up on an incredibly healthy diet: no sugar till I was one, breastfed for over a year, organic homegrown vegetables, raw milk, no MSG, no additives, no aspartame. My mother used homeopathy, aromatherapy, osteopathy, we took daily supplements of vitamin C, echinacea, cod liver oil.
I had an outdoor lifestyle; I grew up next to a farm, walked everywhere, did sports and danced twice a week, drank plenty of water. I wasn’t even allowed pop; even my fresh juice was watered down to protect my teeth, and I would’ve killed for white, shop-bought bread in my lunch box once in a while and biscuits instead of fruit like all the other kids.
We only ate (organic local) meat maybe once or twice a week and my mother and father cooked everything from scratch – I have yet to taste a Findus crispy pancake and oven chips were reserved for those nights when mum and dad had friends over and we got a “treat.”
As healthy as my lifestyle seemed, I contracted measles, mumps, rubella, a type of viral meningitis, scarlatina, whooping cough, yearly tonsillitis, and chickenpox, some of which are vaccine preventable. In my twenties I got precancerous HPV and spent 6 months of my life wondering how I was going to tell my two children under the age of 7 that mummy might have cancer before it was safely removed.
So having the “natural immunity sterilised out of us” just doesn’t cut it for me. How could I, with my idyllic childhood and my amazing health food, get so freaking ill all the time?
(Excerpt) Read more at mamamia.com.au ...
"But not everyone around you is that strong, not everyone has a choice, not everyone can fight those illnesses, and not everyone can be vaccinated. If you have a healthy child, then your healthy child can cope with vaccines and can care about those unhealthy children who can’t."
Ping!
We have the luxury of developing half-baked theories about vaccines. I even see people doing it with their poor dogs - advocating not getting rabies shots.
Those of us who remember the summer polio panics and friends with a brother or sister deaf or retarded because their mom had German measles while pregnant, know better.
“If you think your child’s immune system is strong enough to fight off vaccine-preventable diseases, then it’s strong enough to fight off the tiny amounts of dead or weakened pathogens present in any of the vaccines.”
The issue isn’t with those pathogens. It’s the chemicals injected directly into the bloodstream during critical stages of development.
There has to be a way to gain immunity without them
Fully agree; I bet you anything that if a genuine epidemic of polio (likely since it has hit Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) hit the US, these very idealists would be screaming about how the government didn’t do enough to protect their vaccine free spud.
I loved hearing of all the diseases like mumps and such that I had as a kid, and all the vaccinations, and I even liked that batch of shots the military used to give during the Vietnam war, and I have turned down a free tetanus shot, it always seemed like the more immunization, the better.
As healthy as my lifestyle seemed, I contracted measles, mumps, rubella, a type of viral meningitis, scarlatina, whooping cough, yearly tonsillitis, and chickenpox, some of which are vaccine preventable. In my twenties I got precancerous HPV and spent 6 months of my life wondering how I was going to tell my two children under the age of 7 that mummy might have cancer before it was safely removed.
That is because pathogens seriously don't care how healthy you are. They evolved specifically to evade the immune system. It also takes around two weeks for the immune system to start producing antibodies, so that the viruses or bacteria have plenty of time to incubate and cause disease before your body can put up defenses. Many pathogens can kill long before the body responds, and antibiotic or antiviral drugs don't work for everything. Vaccination has saved millions of lives, by preventing illness in the first place.
I have to say that the "healthy" lifestyle this woman's mother imposed on her and she is imposing on her children is a lifestyle of deprivation. While other kids got to eat tasty food, she was only allowed boring swill. I think that she is the exception rather than the rule, in maintaining that kind of diet even after reaching adulthood. Lots of people are likely to indulge to the point of obesity, because they never were allowed tasty food as children, and never learned self-control.
I was a military brat and when my family moved to Germany back in the early 60s, I got a battery of shots (13 IIRC). Later, when I joined the Navy, got another batch of shots in boot camp and yet many, many more when it was decided that VM would be my first assignment. To this day most germs are more afraid of me than I am of them. LOL!
I did, however, suffer from the mumps and measles when I was a small child (late 40s to early 50s).
I'm not so sure. Part of their vaccine-free lifestyle involves a serious disregard for the health and well-being of others. Polio does not make everyone seriously ill--only about 1 in 200. Unless their kid is that one in 200 who actually becomes disabled from polio, they won't care. We've already seen this where whooping cough outbreaks have occurred in strongly anti-vax areas--these people don't even care about protecting their own children, much less other people's children.
Great article, thanks for posting.
My little brother had polio, but it wasn’t serious, maybe it was lessened because of the vaccine, but I don’t remember the timeline.
Ditto. And, amen.
Vaccines in the military are a requirement, not an option.
I have had the relatively safe vaccines such as flu shots all the way up to small pox and anthrax.
No issues. Same for every other soldier I served with.
Naturally I meant to say that I have NEVER TURNED DOWN a free tetanus shot.
I still resent my mother’s home made granola. Having to eat that stuff when I was a hungry 10 year old messed with my mind. Made me want to kill plants as if revenge would improve the taste.
Some of us are friends with people who got polio from the vaccination.
But I smell a wiff of Bovine Scat.
Same here. I was active duty Navy 85-89 and drilling reservist for another 7 years. Got LOTS of shots. I’m doing okay.
“Some of us are friends with people who got polio from the vaccination.”
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Where did this happen? I’ve never heard of such a thing.
The polio vaccination was a miracle as far as I’m concerned-—I remember the epidemics.
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