Posted on 03/07/2019 12:29:28 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Watch out. Capitol Hill and Silicon Valley have locked their sights on the next targets of a frightening free speech-squelching purge: independent citizens who dare to raise questions online about the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
I'm vaccinated. My children are up to date. There's no dispute that vaccines have saved untold lives. But over the years, I've voiced my concerns about vaccine claims and government coercion in my newspaper columns and blog posts. These concerns include my objections to Gardasil mandates for schoolchildren in Texas and California; schools' threatening parents with jail time for refusing chickenpox shots for their kids; ineffectiveness of the flu vaccine; contamination issues at vaccine plants abroad; lack of data on vaccines' long-term and synergistic effects on children; and pharma-funded politicians' financial conflicts of interest.
In 2004, I recounted my family's firsthand experience with bully doctors who balked at even the mildest questioning of the wisdom of the newborn hepatitis B immunization. When my husband and I asked if we could simply delay this particular shot, as the vaccine is for a virus that is contracted mostly through intravenous drug use and sexual contact, my son's pediatrician angrily kicked us out of her practice.
Does this informed skepticism make me and other like-minded parents public health menaces, as the World Health Organization has proclaimed? Are we "sociopaths," as a journalist at The Atlantic once sneered? Apparently so.
At a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Washington state's public health secretary, John Wiesman, demanded that the feds launch a national campaign to counter "anti-vaccine" groups that are spreading what he condemned as "false information." Weisman called for increased funding from the Centers for Disease Control to combat opponents of the state's push to prevent parents from opting their children out of immunizations for personal or philosophical reasons. Health officials have blamed vaccine critics' social media influence for recent measles outbreaks. So Wiesman further urged Twitter, Facebook and Google to "use whatever mechanism they have available to stop promoting pseudoscience."
Let's be clear: Misinformation of all kinds abounds on the internet. The world's most influential "mainstream" media websites and celebrity social media accounts, for example, recklessly fanned the flames of the recent Covington Catholic High School and Jussie Smollett hate crime hoaxes. No one in Washington has called for the boycott of The Washington Post or TMZ over their false and misleading stories. But for some reason (hint: pharmaceutical big business), politicians and government bureaucrats are now hell-bent on deplatforming any and all dissenters who challenge mandatory vaccine regimens.
Under pressure from Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Amazon pulled the documentaries "Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe," "Man Made Epidemic" and "Shoot 'em Up: The Truth About Vaccines" from its Prime Video streaming service. Last week, Google-owned YouTube moved to demonetize "anti-vaccine" channels, tweak algorithms to suppress vaccine "conspiracy" videos and combat "vaccine hesitancy." Pinterest blocks users from using the search terms "vaccine," "vaccinations" and "anti-vax," no matter the quality of the results. Facebook plans to downgrade vaccine skeptics' content on newsfeeds, recommended user groups and ads.
Is there junk science on the "anti-vaccine" side? Sure. But you can't address this issue without also addressing the problem with physicians and public health flacks who are unwilling to discuss the full risks of vaccines as well as their benefits; pro-vaccination groups that provide incorrect information about vaccines' duration of protection; physicians who refuse to care for children who are not "fully" vaccinated; and the comparative risk-benefit ratios of different vaccines.
As for efficacy, consider this new data: A recent whooping cough outbreak at the private Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles last week resulted in 30 students contracting the illness, all of whom were vaccinated. Of 18 unvaccinated students, none caught the disease. Will pointing this out on my Facebook and Twitter accounts bring down the Silicon Valley ban hammer?
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who happens to be a physician and parent himself, was the lone voice of dissent at the Senate hearing this week. While acknowledging that the benefits of vaccines generally outweigh their risks, he noted the plain truth that "it is wrong to say there are no risks to vaccines." He added that over $4 billion has been paid by the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program for adults and children who have been injured or died as a result of receiving federally recommended childhood vaccines.
Is it unacceptable fearmongering to raise that point? How about to share information on vaccine manufacturers' astonishing exemption from product liability? Or to point parents to new research findings on brain injuries caused by vaccines, which can be found at VaccinePapers.org? Or to link them to a recent statement by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which "strongly opposes federal interference in medical decisions, including mandated vaccines."
When it comes to protecting our children, skepticism is always the best medicine. We need more free speech, not less. Those who seek to suppress debate and discussion in the name of the "public good" are the true health threats.
Obamacare included forced vaccinations for healthcare workers, in exchange for reimbursement dollars. Shouldn’t that be scary enough?
Nope, the truly scary part is how medicine is genetically engineered.. But don’t worry, it’s for the collective good.
$6 million on Gardasil in the USA, other countries are not counted as yet, which covers 8 out of 30 strains. Plenty of evidence out of India on the Poor girl children who are injured, dead, that India Banned the Vaccine. Now they are forcing it on boys. Ask if it is supposed to prevent Cervical Cancer in Females, why does a Male need it. Sounds more like a STD issue.
FWIW Genetic sequencing science breakthrough just proved that measles “outbreaks” are caused by the measles vaccine
Wednesday, March 06, 2019 by: Mike Adams
RE: As a scientific issue, the anti- vax campaign has long since been discredited as junk science.
Read this article, she is not a rabid anti-vax proponent. She is however, for INFORMED skepticism as there have been cases where some vaccines have actually done HARM.
There is a difference between ALL and SOME and she’s highlighting it here.
If you eliminated genital warts in males, you would eliminate the major cause of cervical cancer in females.
Homosexual males are also at increased risk of HPV-caused throat and anal cancer.
I am pro SOME vaccines on a timely manner. I don’t believe in injecting newborns and I do believe interfering with the immune system so early on has impacted the upsurge of random allergies and intolerances in our country.
Our food processing and pesticides is another problematic issue.
There is something to be said for breastfeeding when possible, eating foods as unprocessed as possible, and avoiding unnecessary vaccines filled with all sorts of toxins and potential to disturb rather than boost our God given immune systems.
Disagreeing with our all-knowing deep state overlords makes one a menace apparently.
My daughter is a nurse. She is now allergic to pet hair and regularly breaks out in hives since receiving her Obamacare forced vaccinations for healthcare workers.
She never had those problems before this.
No vaccines for me. They make me sick.
No prescription drugs for me. They make me sick.
I’m extraordinarily healthy. But then, I don’t hang out with a lot of children or other sources of disease. Just the healthy adults at the gym.
"The vaccine you received for the flu, whooping cough or hepatitis-A might not work. And on top of that, it might have actually infected you."
“the anti- vax campaign has long since been discredited as junk science. ”
And yet the bodies and ruined lives continue to stack up as we implement “real science.”
Anti Vaxxers are lunatics.
They also are all liberal hippie brainwashed. That’s where thus Corso came from. The new left 60’s people.
Gardasil obviously is not needed and government overkill exists.
But vaccines are one of the things that define our society, history and culture as a Judeo-Christian civilization.
Anti-Vaxxers want the US at Third World status and work hand in glove with the left.
Pertussis vaccines are about 70% effective and wear off after about 5 years. That 18 unvaccinated, ie. 1.1%, out of 1570 students didn’t catch pertussis, while 30, or 1.9% did, is incomplete information. We could just as easily say that 1570, or 98% of vaccinated students didn’t catch pertussis either. But the real question should be about the 30 - where they recently or distantly vaccinated? All part of the same clic? (pertussis being an intimate disease) If recently vaccinated, what about their genetics put them in the pool of 30% the vaccine isn’t effective for? And if they weren’t vaccinated within the last 6 or 7 years, it’s probably more appropriate to count them in the ‘unvaccinated’category.
CDC tells us the booster shot protects 70% in the first year and 40% four years after receiving it so it's "good" but not fool proof.
“Ask if it is supposed to prevent Cervical Cancer in Females, why does a Male need it. Sounds more like a STD issue.”
I’m responding to your question, not implying people shouldn’t ask questions. Cervical cancer is basically a sexually transmitted disease. However, it is an STD that cannot be prevented by the use of condoms and it is one that men easily can pass on without “catching” it themselves. A woman with a pristine premarital sexual history can get it from her husband. If a man’s first wife gets cervical cancer and dies from it, his second wife is almost certain to get cervical cancer as well. I personally know of a man whose first wife was a virgin when they married — he was ten years older than she was — who ended up dying of cervical cancer; his second wife also died of cervical cancer. So, there is sound reason for vaccinating boys as well as girls against cervical cancer, and there is good reason for vaccinating even girls who are being raised to save sex for marriage.
LOL. You believe those 70% numbers?
How exactly do they test it?
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