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Posted on 11/04/2011 4:28:40 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Chris Barnes, 11, is getting his latest round of vaccinations for measles and tetanus.
“It doesn’t really scare me as much as other people, it’s just a shot,” he said.
Without regular immunizations, Chris would be turned away at his pediatrician’s office.
Dr. Wayne Yankus refuses to see patients unless they follow the government recommended immunization schedule.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburgh.cbslocal.com ...
I was growing up right before the polio vaccine, I knew many people who were crippled for life because of it, I never had the pleasure of knowing those who died of it.
I also lived next door to a doctor who had his office right next to his house and we knew a lot of what went on, especially when an unvaccinated child died of Diptheria or Whooping Cough. The Dr. was always mad because it was a senseless death because we did have vaccines for that but they didn’t use them in Mexico which was just a few miles down the road.
I, myself, almost died from the measles, my SIL was left partially deaf and legally blind from them and my mother almost died when she got them at 40.
Just recently a young man we know with 4 children who they don’t vaccinate got the Chicken Pox and almost died because his brain swelled, he was sick for 2 months and lost his business because of it.
My grandfather died of Tetanus.
If the majority of the people weren’t vaccinated our hospitals would be filled with people with preventable diseases. People always cite antibiotics as changing the life expectancies but I believe that it wasn’t them alone, it was vaccinations and healthy and available food combined with them.
I know I live in my own small world but I lived in a smaller world then and the only person I know who was harmed by a vaccination in my husband who almost died from his Smallpox vaccination.
People who missed this time don’t think that those diseases are all that bad and they are able to get away from vaccinating their children only because the vast majority of the population does vaccinate.
So tell your anti-vaccination story to the parents of disease-injured/deceased children.
It's been a while, hasn't it?
Looking at this thread it looks like not much has changed, the arguments against vaccination look exactly the same, as always.
Sears? Good grief, you sure do know how to pick them. Dr. Sears isn't any different than Mercola except that he's even more dangerous. Like Mecola, Sears also fans the flames of anti-vaccine hysteria with unscientific drivel masquerading as science.
Science-Based Medicine: Cashing In On Fear: The Danger of Dr. Sears
But Dr. Bob is best known for his best-selling The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for your Child. This book, or at least notes from it, now accompanies many confused and concerned parents to the pediatrician’s office. Parents who have been misled by the onslaught of vaccine misinformation and fear-mongering feel comforted and supported by the advice of Dr. Sears, who assures parents that there is a safer, more sensible way to vaccinate. He wants parents to make their own “informed” decisions about whether or how to proceed with vaccinating their children, making sure to let them know that if they do choose to vaccinate, he knows the safest way to do it. And for $13.99 (paperback), he’ll share it with them.
In the final chapter of his book (entitled “What should you do now?”), after reinforcing the common vaccine myths of the day, Dr. Sears presents his readers with “Dr. Bob’s Alternative Vaccine Schedule.” He places this side-by-side with the schedule recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. He then explains why his schedule is a safer choice for parents who chose to vaccinate their children. Without a doubt, the alternative vaccine schedule is among the more damaging aspects of this book. It’s the part that gets brought along to the pediatrician’s office and presented as the the plan going forward for many parents today. But the book is also dangerous in the way in which it validates the pervasive myths that are currently scaring parents into making ill-informed decisions for their children. Dr. Sears discusses these now common parental concerns, but instead of countering them with sound science, he lets them stand on their own as valid. He points out that most doctors are ill-equipped to discuss vaccines with parents, being poorly trained in the science of vaccine risks and benefits. He then claims to be a newly self-taught vaccine expert, a laughable conceit given the degree to which he misunderstands the science he purports to have read, and in the way he downplays the true dangers of the vaccine-preventable diseases he discusses in his book. He then provides parents with what he views as rational alternatives to the recommended vaccination schedule, a schedule designed by the country’s true authorities on vaccinology, childhood infectious disease, and epidemiology."
The author then goes on to thoroughly document the lies of Dr. Sears. The article comes complete with pictures of children suffering horribly because of dirt bags like Sears. This is a fact based investigation of Dr. Sears. You probably won't like it because it takes issue with your basic system of beliefs. I offer it anyway.
You ridicule big pharma for making a profit but say nothing about this scum placing children at risk for a buck. You Luddites are most definitely a trip.
For you I prefer cluelessness.
Ah, yes. The "Evil BigPharma" argument.
What is going to make DRUG companies more money? Preventing kids from getting sick, or allowing them to get sick and providing a constant stream of treatments for those myriad illnesses?
And what about the "Evil Doctors"? Do they make more money giving out jabs or actually treating sick kids?
You're making no sense.
(and it's true, Mercola is a quack)
Yeah, that’s what I thought. 5%?
You’re funny. And dumb.
The only thing that puts children at risk is the heartless criminal fraud known as “modern medicine.”
The only cure for disease is raw milk! /s
>> “What is going to make DRUG companies more money?” <<
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Easy, what they are doing: Making and selling drugs that mask the symptoms of disease, while the disease gets progressively worse, while the side effects of the drugs cause additional disease.
Its a beautiful business plan, providing sufficient profits to bribe the necessary officials and legislators so that they can remain free and in business.
It even provides for the lawyers that don’t get to prosecute them for their crimes, and get to make even more protecting the poison makers from lawsuits.
Raw milk is useful in preventing disease, by strengthening the immune system with colostrum and CLA, but its uses as a cure specifically are less obvious.
Examples please?
I do wonder if all the people that are whining about unvaccinated kids being so dangerous to the rest of us have gone and gotten *all* of their vaccines updated. Vaccines for bacterial infections just do not last long; just long enough to get babies to an age where there immune systems should be strong enough to fight off most diseases. And when I say fight off, I mean not die from.
Probably every one of the people that have made disparaging comments about those who choose not to vaccinate or space out vaccinations to something different than the CDC chart are all susceptible to pertusis at this moment.
No vaccine is 100% effective. There are a certain percentage of children who are susceptible to infection even after the shots, not to mention those with compromised immune system who cannot get vaccines, so it is imperative that as many kids as possible be inoculated to protect the rest.
I realize that. I’m talking about all the ADULTS that are essentially walking around unvaccinated because the effectiveness has worn off. I suspect that a lot of the people that are commenting here about unvaccinated children are essentially unvaccinated themselves.
No, no, no! The only way to prevent disease is to subject the immune systems of very young children to raw milk pathogens like Enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus, Campylobacter jejuni, Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria, Tuberculosis, Brucella species, Coxiella burnetii and Yersinia enterocolitica.
Only then will they be healthy. Avoid modern medicine at all costs. Modern medicine is a heartless criminal fraud. We were so much healthier back in the good old days when we would bleed people. //editor-surveyor I'm an alien from another planet off//
You’re nuts...you know that, right?
Right, and none of those bacteria are present in pasteurized milk.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6041a6.htm?s_cid=mm6041a6_x
My husband got undulant fever from *gasp* pasteurized milk, when he was a kid.
I don’t understand why people can’t see there are risks and benefits to *everything*. To act like vaccines are completely safe for every person, or that raw milk is *always* unsafe, or that pasteurized milke is *always* safe is illogical.
“”Do they make more money giving out jabs or actually treating sick kids?””
Unfortunately, there is no treatment for vaccine damaged children.
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