Posted on 02/14/2019 4:00:48 PM PST by tkocur
There is no scientific link between vaccines and autism, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Darla Shine, wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Bill Shine, is arguing that serious diseases like measles can help fight cancer.
Shine’s screed against vaccines came on Wednesday after CNN reported on a measles outbreak in Clark County, Washington and Oregon.
“Here we go LOL #measlesoutbreak on #CNN #Fake #Hysteria,” Shine, a former Fox News producer, tweeted, slamming CNN’s coverage of the disease.
“The entire Baby Boom population alive today had the #Measles as kids,” Shine — who, along with the White House, did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment — continued.
“Bring back our #ChildhoodDisease they keep you healthy & fight cancer.”
Shine went on to claim that she had measles, mumps and chicken pox as a child “and so did every kid I knew.”
Because of this, Shine believes she is immune to the disease.
However, despite claiming to be an anti-vaxxer herself, Shine said, “my kids had #MMR [measles mumps and rubella] so they will never have the life long natural immunity I have.”
“Come breathe on me!” Shine continued, on her Twitter, which was first identified by the Daily Beast.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the MMR vaccine is recommended in preventing measles mumps and rubella.
“Children should get two doses of MMR vaccine, starting with the first dose at 12 to 15 months of age, and the second dose at 4 through 6 years of age,” the CDC states.
According to the CDC, more than 70,000 measles cases were prevented in the US between 1994 and 2013 as a result of vaccines.
While many Americans, including Shine, survived the disease after it passed, that hasn’t always been the case.
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Well. She’s mostly correct. You get measles once. Chicken pox once but you can get shingles. Nasty. I had chicken pox and shingles. Shingles are not nice.
We have pretty good immune systems at birth. It was good they came out with smallpox vaccines (I have the single pock mark like most people my age) and polio vaccine. My friend and his two brothers got polio in the 50s. My friend and one brother completely recovered. The other is still wearing leg braces and uses crutches when not in his wheelchair. Shame really.
Took my first and last flu vaccine in 1999. It ruined my health, gave me an autoimmune disease. A chronic one that still exists. I seriously will investigate before I will take another vaccine. I’ll never take another flu vaccine.
I had all three.
And Mr. Kellyanne Conway despises the president. And like Darla Shine, he doesn’t speak for the administration.
Vaccines don’t supply lifetime immunity. Not even close. Having the diseases has given me 50 years of immunity.
Everybody who the press thinks did a bad thing are “close aides” or “personal friends” of Donald Trump.
My mind is full of Facts. I know all the answers on “Jeopardy!”. My family wiped the floor with our whole parish on “Trivia Night.”
Sounds like me. I love trivia and love quiz shows and play trivia games online. I HAVE to now......the old mind’s going.......lol
Lifelong immunity may or may not be conferred by vaccines. It may or may not be conferred by the disease. There are so many factors involved in whether lifelong immunity is achieved that I don’t really concern myself too much about it.
I have had blood tests that show I am immune to measles and rubella, and my medical record is notated that I am permanently exempt from receiving those vaccines. On the other hand, I will have to have a tetanus shot in a couple of years and the shingles vaccines soon.
Shingles is a disease that you can only contract if you have had chicken pox. I’ve had shingles, and mean to get the vaccine—but the last time I saw my doctor, she said that I can’t get it now because I was about to have surgery.
Recent research has demonstrated that the yellow fever vaccine most likely confers lifelong immunity. However, the recommendation is still to receive the vaccine every ten years, if you travel to areas where yellow fever is endemic. In the US, we don’t need that vaccine since we eradicated the disease.
Wrong. I am a public health professional. My concern is to prevent disease in the population and thereby protect the most vulnerable among us.
The Supreme Court ruled a long time ago that you do not have a right to expose other people to disease. So I stand on solid Constitutional ground.
Funny. Nothing to do with President Trump. The occupation media and mockingbirds are a large infectious disease. Is there a vaccine for this?
Hey Tax-chick, I bet that you and I could have a lot of fun with a Trivia game. Trivia is a compulsion for me.
That makes 2 of us MarMema. I had all the childhood diseases and I have been exposed to all of them many times since then. I have been extremely healthy for 85 years. I haven’t had even a sniffle in at least 3 years. I don’t do anti-biotics. I have never had a Flu shot. My immune system is one for the books. My children insist on anti-biotics and they are sick all the time. Those things kill your immune system. Also I’m hearing that the Shingle shots are not working. Research things before making medical decisions.
No thanks
People Magazine?!?! Might as well been a supermarket tabloid. I’ll bet she, also, gave birth to a alien a few years ago and she can levitate and saw the sky falling.....
The level of the lies is only based upon what the idiot reader can perceive and believe. And reality goes out the door.
rwood
The point is the death rate from measles had plummeted about 95% before the introduction of the vaccine, which provides about 18 months “protection” (while making the same people more susceptible to atypical strains of measles, and other illnesses and autoimmune disorders) and exposing young children to the risk of brain injury.
The people supporting mandatory vaccination are generally ardent leftists and GOPe. And these stories are about the fundamental right of parents to opt out medicine which does not treat an illness.
Wow, I’ve never heard that. I had a really bad case of chicken pox when I was 5. In my eyes, everywhere. I still remember it well.
Chickenpox, measles (several varieties!)...yep, we all had them, growing up.
The National Institutes of Health too quackery for you?
Me too. My brother had a mild case and mine was really bad. I had it in kindergarten in 1966.
I’m not arguing pro or con on vaccines’
I had chickenpox as a child, 50 years later wham shingles. Extreme pain I thought would never end.
There’s no argument. I feel your pain. Well actually not but I sympathize.
But the idea that the chickenpox vaccine as a child prevents exposure to the virus and eliminates the risk for shingles later on is a false one. The vaccine is a ‘live virus’ vaccine.
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