Posted on 05/23/2019 6:25:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The head of an international vaccine group says that misunderstandings and false information about vaccines are spreading on the internet and should be stopped.
Seth Berkley of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, spoke Tuesday to a gathering in Geneva, Switzerland, where the World Health Organization is meeting. Berkley said that false information “kills people.” He noted strong scientific evidence of the safety of vaccines.
But, he said social media algorithms favor misinformation over facts. He added that such misinformation easily influences people who have not had a family member die from a preventable disease.
Berkley said people must consider the belief in misinformation as a contagious sickness.
He added, “This is a disease.This spreads at the speed of light, literally.”
The World Health Organization says not enough people are getting the vaccine that prevents measles. It says this is why the disease is spreading around the world.
The organization says vaccines save two million lives every year.
Measles infections have risen sharply in countries that earlier had few cases, including the United States.
Seth Berkley argues that misinformation about vaccines is not a freedom of speech issue. He said Tuesday that social media companies should remove such content from their websites.
Alex Azar is Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He made similar comments in his speech to the yearly meeting of the WHO. He said in the U.S., social media conspiracy groups confuse parents so they avoid getting needed vaccinations.
The American official also spoke of U.S. efforts to strengthen immunization programs around the world. He said, “Just recently, the U.S. supported a mass measles vaccination campaign in Nigeria that reached almost 10 million kids. We assisted with a diphtheria outbreak among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.”
And he noted U.S. support of recent research about the yellow fever vaccine.
Azar has rejected criticism of comments about vaccines made by U.S. president Donald Trump before he became president. Trump posted on Twitter that vaccination could cause autism, a developmental disorder.
“A study says @Autism is out of control – a 78% increase in 10 years. Stop giving monstrous combined vaccinations.”
Azar said that Trump was “extremely firm” in support of vaccinations.
Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam also spoke to the WHO delegates. She said health officials needed to do more about online misinformation. She said she was working on the issue with Twitter, Facebook, Google and other companies.
Yeah Byotch. Come and take it.
MMR
As with any medicine, there is a chance of a vaccine causing a serious injury or death.
The safety of vaccines is always being monitored. For more information, visit the vaccine safety web site.
This information is based on the LAIV VIS.
With any medicine, including vaccines, there is a chance of reactions. These are usually mild and go away on their own, but serious reactions are also possible.
Getting MMR vaccine is much safer than getting measles, mumps, or rubella disease. Most people who get MMR vaccine do not have any problems with it.
After MMR vaccination, a person might experience:
Minor events:
If these events happen, they usually begin within 2 weeks after the shot. They occur less often after the second dose.
Moderate events:
Severe events:
I think the issue is the United States government has no credibility anymore. Why would the American public trust the government about vaccines, when they spy illegally on the Trump Campaign and other American citizens.
Can you trust a Government who tries to remove an Elected President on false charges? Can you trust a government who let other people in office and position of power get away with breaking laws, while they lock up common people for breaking the same laws?
The problem is not false information on the internet, it is that we cannot trust our government to tell us the truth. The United States is a broken government…
“My Body My Choice” only applies to killing your own babies.
Other than that, you and your kids take the shots we tell you to take, serfs.
You’re right. Govt and our legal system has forfeited credibility. We just Cat trust them.
“”The organization says vaccines save two million lives every year.””
In a world with XXXXXXXX population? Better stay out of Vegas.
But, they said there is no real truth, that everything is subjective, so if we take everything off the Internet that isn’t true, then what will be left?
Best post of the thread.
Because nobody who is not fully on board with that would go along with this.
When their Government control of life and death through mandating aspects of health care plans are threatened, they out themselves.
We so need to return to localism, if you will, for security, wealth and health. That actually historically has been something the hippy left backed, so there should be some room for drawing support beyond Trump’s base.
My MMR vaccine was to contract all the diseases by the age of 5. My mother ensured it by taking me to “MMR Parties”.
The same with my 3 sisters.
Though it is rumored that up to 1 in 1,000 of us suffered “complications”. Some of those complications were brain damage, or eve, in rare cases, death.
But I would STILL avoid the MMR vaccine for any of my kids.
It preserves a true “herd immunity”, embedded in our genes. As nature and God intended.
This modern era of vaccines will eventually destroy that. Preserving and promulgating genes incapable of surviving basic childhood diseases.
And thereby weakening the entire species of man.
We so need to return to localism, if you will, for security, wealth and health. That actually historically has been something the hippy left backed, so there should be some room for drawing support beyond Trump’s base.
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I get the flu vaccine every year, make sure my kid is up to date on all vaccines, and pretty much consider the anti-vaccination arguments all wrong. However, I do believe in free choice and like this suggestion here regarding localism.
Also, I very strongly believe in free speech, much more than I believe in vaccines. Although I consider arguments against vaccines to be misguided and counterfactual (I am allowed to have that opinion?) I am dead set against “cleansing the internet” or whatever the lefties want to do to stomp out free speech.
What if parents offered $$$ to opt out of the dozens of vaccines stabbed at their screaming children?
I would bet the tone would change substantially,
Yes, I am for free speech pretty much above all as well.
And I suspect the truth on vaccines is somewhere in the middle. Too many too risky vaccines forced on the population, but a call for them when really needed, well tested, and in good measure.
How long can a government that no one trusts even last? We are finding out. Most of us used to consider the Oaths we took as youngsters an obligation to protect this country. Now we need to realize that for us to continue to take this Oath seriously we really need to let the “USA” go. We are at a political impasse and the country is failing at all the things at which a country cannot fail (I know, it’s awkward but prepositions and all). Borders just being an obvious and painful one. The current government has in reality become an impediment to doing things that need doing. We don’t need a revolution or a civil war. All we need to do is wait patiently for the libtrads to completely succeed in destroying the only thing that is restraining us from doing things that need to be done, like Singapore did in the 50s.
“My Body, My Choice” ....yeah, here in Oregon the DEMS tried to pass a mandatory vaccine law....it so riled up young mothers, that we have them finally paying attention to politics and they are registering as Republicans.
They didn’t seem to have a problem with false information spread by The “Silent Spring” propaganda book by Rachel Carson that killed MILLIONS
I say anyone forcing their way into the US along the Southern border should be detained for as long as it takes to administer a full spectrum of vaccines before being released.
I'd prefer they be sent back but if they're going to be let through anyway, why not make sure they aren't going to infect the populace of legal citizens? Serious injury? Death? No problem. Ask them which they would prefer; That, expulsion or indefinite detention?
If we aren't stopping them I'd add mandatory sterilization and a signed waver stating, should they suffer vaccine damage it's on them, and not the US taxpayers.
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