“Mothers who took a shot in the late 1950’s during pregnancy ended up having kids with missing limbs. I can’t remember what the shot was for but I saw a few kids with it in school.”
That was not a vaccine.
That was thalidomide, which was a morning sickness drug. It was developed by Otto Abros, a Nazi.
The drug thalidomide and the tragedies associated with it were the impetitus for the larger and intrusive FDA as we know it today.
OK thanks. I just remember kids being born that way. I spent a couple of years in a school specializing in kids with physical disabilities. Vaccines all of them do carry some risk. No matter what a certain percentage will have an adverse reaction. These reactions seemed to have increased when the time frames were narrowed and more shots taken closer together. The reason behind it I think was for Pre-schoolers, Kindergarten, etc. Kids present in class means FUNDING.
When I was a kid we started school at age six by then most of us had gone through typical childhood illnesses like measles, chicken pox, etc, and our immune systems were stronger for the socialization school brings.
The same government oriented pressures that brought us the newer vaccine schedules brought us school pushed Ritalin as the Not Too Be Questioned Cure All for every childs learning or behavioral issues. This too involved additional funding too the schools. Never mind in doing so they do far more harm too many more kids than good. There is good reason to question their motives and exercise educated caution. Just because some alaphabet government agency says something is good, safe, or needed, doesn't mean it's true.
I have two cousins who were born several years apart. At an early age about 2-3 they began developing M.D. type symptoms. I put both of them in wheelchairs for life. They are in their late thirties today. One is married and has kids. Needless too say she was very apprehensive & cautious about her kids shots. They got them but not at the rapid pace being used by most doctors today.
I take vaccines about every three weeks myself. Is it risk free? NO. A doctor or nurse has to be ready with a needle in case I have a reaction. I might not ever have a reaction or the next one I take could put me into shock. I take immunization therapy for severe allergies. It was simply weighing the risk of long term immunization against more permanent neurological damage if I didn't. Vaccines also change. The allergy shots I took as a child did not work. The ones I take today work somewhat better. Still the same risk though.