Posted on 02/28/2015 8:06:58 AM PST by azkathy
While childhood vaccination rates are well over 90%, adults are far more likely to be behind on vaccinations http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/national_adult_immunization_plan_final.pdf
Think you're up to date on your vaccinations? You might be surprised at how many vaccinations are now recommended for American adults -- and the federal government plans to start tracking which of those vaccines you're behind on.
The Department of Health and Human Services released its preliminary draft of a new five year plan to increase adult vaccinations this month. The newly revised 52-page National Adult Immunization Plan says:
While the NVP provides a vision for improving protection from vaccine-preventable diseases across the lifespan, vaccination coverage levels among adults are not on track to meet Healthy People 2020 targets.
It describes the plan for the next five years as:
Goal 1: Strengthen the adult immunization infrastructure. Goal 2: Improve access to adult vaccines. Goal 3: Increase community demand for adult immunizations. Goal 4: Foster innovation in adult vaccine development and vaccination-related technologies.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
The ironic thing about all this is that the Supreme Court discovered the “right to privacy” in its Greenwald decision that voided state prohibitions of contraceptives and, later, abortion. The Court reasoned that, since doctors and patients had right to privacy, the states could not forbid such practices.
In subsequent cases, the Court reasoned that citizens have no right to privacy since they have no reasonable presumption of privacy. It sees no problem with the government collecting the medical records of its subjects.
In other words, the only right to privacy that the US government recognizes is the right to abortion and contraceptives, even though it now presumes authority to gather information about that as well.
The US has well and truly fallen into the rabbit hole.
Under ObamaCare, we have replaced the physician-insurance-patient model with a veterinary model. Since the state is the owner and we’re the cattle, the medical decision-making resides with the state.
For decades, it was clear that the physician-insurance-patient model was not working efficiently. I’d have preferred going back to a physician-patient model. Obviously, that was too radical for most Americans, who prefer to be treated like cattle.
After Perry got slapped down over Gardisil, he quietly kept pushing it in public schools via the school nurses. Yes, I know this for a fact because I was at the school and held in my hand the permission form sent home by the school nurse. The form got parents to bite because the shots were a “limited supply” so get ‘em fast and they were FREE! That’s just another in a long list of why I can’t stand ex-Gov. Goodhair and would never vote for him for POSTUS.
It came out this week that peanut allergies could be greatly reduced if parents introduced them to babies sooner. I suspect a lot of those food time tables have caused a lot more problems than they solved.
My own children are grown with only one son (17) still being actively pursued by his pediatrician for the Gardisil vaccine - which I absolutely refused and will continue to refuse. If any of my adult children prefer to accept this vaccination, they will each make that decision of their own free will. The two youngest children 17 & 24 have severe allergies to nuts and shellfish - the first allergies in this family going back several generations.
I'm glad I watched the documentary and recommend it for consideration
I’m a human, not livestock, and I will not be treated as such-just one more reason to live away from cities, avoid drugs and processed foods like the rest of the family and begin going galt-my trust is in God, not the government-what helps my best friend, neighbor, etc could be awful for me-I’ve had the experience a few times when I was younger-nearly had my lights put out permanently-and am not going there again, ever...
Yes, I also read an article that the children in families who hand wash dishes have fewer allergies.
Thank you for posting your thoughts on this. I thought this documentary was well done. I did not have my girls vaccinated with Gardasil. As they are now adults, they decide on their own.
check out the number of vaccines and at the ages given, as well as the clustering.
http://www.vaccines.gov/who_and_when/infants_to_teens/index.html
21 vaccines before the age of six, and generally 6 more before the age of 18, for a total of 27 in childhood. Some vaccines are given multiple times (for example, the DTaP - diptheria, tetanus, and pertussis - is given 5 times).
Look people life is not forever, the sooner people realize that, the more the reason to move on and do something productive with the life we have. As for measles, that’s a dying disease, having hundreds, even if all of them are unvaccinated, means overall, more people with natural immunity. I am just thankful that the measles of 2014 and 2015 didn’t kill anyone.
Put the emphasis on those that are highly contagious and high mortality.
I have, though a lot of the shots they give now to infants, I got when I was at an older age. I didn’t receive Hepatitis B shots until I was 12. My DOB is 1984, in case anyone is wondering.
many thanks!
Well, thank you for answering. So far you’re the only one - anywhere - who’s answered that question. I’m 20 years older than you are, and I probably didn’t receive as many shots as you did. I know I didn’t receive as many shots as children today are given.
Today the number of shots is up to 25 (not including flu shots), all before the age of 18 months, and then more shots later:
http://www2.aap.org/immunization/izschedule.html#Birthon
And, very often, multiple shots are given all in one doctor’s visit. My children were vaccinated, but later I began to question the number of shots.
This will be entertaining for my very healthy 92 year old Father, I doubt he would ever submit to required vaccinations, WWII vet that will never submit.
Not so much the number of shots, IMHO, but what are you giving the shots for, and what is the risk of contracting the disease. Hepatitis B is an incurable disease that causes liver failure. However, it isn’t that contagious, as it is spread by sex,blood transfusion, and birth to an infected mother. In today’s world, the risk of a 12-year old acquiring it is well known. But to an infant, not that much, considering that it’s standard to test a pregnant woman multiple times for STDs, including Hepatitis viruses. The likelihood that someone will give you multiple false negatives over months’ time is minute, so they generally will know from those tests which expecting mothers actually have Hepatitis B, and which babies are at risk as a result. The important issue I have is risk a 12 year old like I was is a bigger risk for contracting Hepatitis B than a newborn.
That’s a good point, too. We’re really overloading babies and small children with this stuff, but, as you point out, all of these shots might not even be necessary. Now it’s up to 25 shots for 13 different diseases, all before 18 months of age. Who knows how many more shots will be added...
I thought you might like to see this... It’s a video being passed around... Jimmy Kimmel put together an anti-anti-vax PSA (as a joke), and it’s being passed around:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgpfNScEd3M
Notice that, apparently, Kimmel doesn’t seem to know that smallpox vaccinations ended in the 1970’s. ;-)
The only part left out of this is birth to an infected mother, although this is hard to do considering that pregnant women get screened multiple times for STDs, including the Hepatitis viruses, during pregnancy, meaning the likelihood that they will get a false negative on the mother is pretty small. And the testing on pregnant women is more reliable than the “honesty” about the mother’s behaviors. They pretty much know which mothers have Hepatitis before the baby is born.
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