Posted on 08/22/2008 2:50:56 PM PDT by CholeraJoe
More people had measles infections in the first seven months of this year than during any comparable period since 1996, and public health officials blamed growing numbers of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children.
Many of these parents say they believe vaccines cause autism, even though multiple studies have found no reputable evidence to support such a claim. In Britain, Switzerland, Israel and Italy, measles outbreaks have soared, sickening thousands and causing at least two deaths.
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Ping.
If you knew the story on what vaccines do to kids - autism is not the worst when paralysis and death are possible - you’d change your tune. Congress didn’t pass a law in the last five years or so exempting the vaccine makers from all litigation for no reason.
Gardisil, the HPV vaccine being pushed to teenaged girls and their parents, has already killed two and sickened others.
Keep in mind this is the NYT reporting this. There’s more to vaccine injury than the Feds want you to know, and the exemption from lawsuits and the creation of the federal vaccine injury claim system are two data points that indicate something is amiss.
Perhaps true. But even the NYT can occasionally get within a mile or two of the truth. Their science folks are - almost - competent. However one must admit that the stats don’t support a connection between the immunizations and autism. (Neither do stats support global warming, but the NYT has stats they use and stats they don’t.)
Go peddle your BS somewhere else. I'm a physician. Before the Salk vaccine, polio struck hundreds of thousands and paralyzed scores. It's been over 50 years but there are still people alive whose lives were devastated by polio, rubella and measles.
Statistically vaccines benefit by huge factors compared to any harm.
Would you rather go back to widespread smallpox, polio, measles, mumps, german measles, etc.
Personally, I like my chances of living to 70. Not 35. Anti-vaccine people are probably lottery players.
I agree it’s not just moonbats. A fair percentage of the families opting out are people who are homeschooling for religious reasons.
We know what vaccines do. They prevent disabling diseases and the anti-vaccine ignorati depends on the rest of us to protect their children and themselves.
Forgot to mention that the reason that the congress (in a rare example of actual thought) had to do something about lawsuits was to make crook lawyers like John Edwards less likely to practice junk science in front of a public-school educated jury.
Are your loved ones vaccinated?
Worse, they put the rest of us at risk. In the article, the infants that got ill were too young to receive the vaccine.
Technically speaking, what “vaccines do to kids” is save millions and millions of lives from the scourges of Polio, Whooping Cough, Diptheria, Tuberculosis, Mumps, Measles, Rubella, Yellow Fever, Plague, Dengue Fever, etc etc etc.. Clearly their problems are outweighed by their benefits. Dozens of these afflictions (I just named a few off the top of my head) are just a distant memory in the minds of old folks because modern medicine has more or less eradicated them from North America at least.
Many came already infected, did not need record of vaccinations (presumably they used their Mexican Consular cards) to enter publik skools or put their children in publik daycare.
The reason that vaccine makers are exempted from litigation is because - surprise! - NOBODY will MAKE the vaccines if they are gonna get sued by every POS trial lawyer that comes down the pike.
Vaccines are not a high profit item for starters, and nobody is required to manufacture them.
Can someone point to the stats on how many that ARE vaccinated , come down with the disease anyway or die?
Oh never mind, they don’t keep these stats. I wonder why.
“If a loved one of mine gets measles from some moonbat’s kid who wasn’t vaccinated, I will own their A$$. “
If your loved ones are vaccinated how exactly are they supposed to get measles? I see this argument on this issue all the time and it is simply logic FAILURE. Unless you are admitting that vaccines don’t work. In which case, why get upset at people opting out of something that doesnt work.
Ever encountered a severely retarded adult who was born of a mom exposed to German measles (rubella)? Its heartbreaking. Today, due to routine MMR innoculations which have pretty much ended that horrific birth defect.
I have relatives who participated in the orginal Salk vaccine trials in Pittsburgh. Imagine how many more would have died or been crippled if those thousands of parents ‘opted out’ and did not participate in the tests?
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