Well that is certainly your choice, and I admire you for your willingness to take the consequences. However, I despise the efforts of some of the people associated with the anti-vaccine movement. The lies, propaganda and evil efforts to shut down the manufacturing of this vaccine and preventing anyone else from having the same choice as you is just evil.
So you despise my efforts and think I want YOUR choic restrained and that it is "EVIL" that I do so.
What you are falling prey to is that the DOD has been your only source of information, or that of the CDC or the NIH. The funny thing is they are ALL federal institutions and thus must protect each other. Look at the CDC, they say it is a good vaccine, for the military, NOT, the civilian population.
What does this tell you?? Why is it that the DOD makes ALL civilians who want to take this (Fed workers and Postal Workers and Government Staffers and State dept workers) sign a 5 page WAIVER???
Why is it that former Secretary of the Army, Louis Caldera, actually granted INDEMNIFICATION to Bio Port? If you look at the Memo it was for a whole host of significant problems that if experienced by the civilian sector they could not even come close to bringing the product to market.
This vaccine was a good one in 1950. Back the Merck developed it for the DOD and was used solely for those working in textile mills whose job was one in which they handled hides of animals. They were routinely suffering from Cutaneous Anthrax (Skin only). It helped some of them, but not all. And the vaccine was weak. Comparitivly speaking. The manufacture of this then went to a different company and then to Michigan Biologic Health Products Inc. This was a state owned company that the DOD contracted with. It became Bio Port.
The filtering process changed, the potency of the vaccine was racheted up to almost 6 times. The dosage was arbitrarly doubled to six shots instead of the three. There was weak and scant evidence that it even did what it said it would do fo cutaneous Anthrax infection let alon inhalation Anthrax.
One Rhesus Monkey study was done and it helped some live through aerosol challenge, but not all. And Rhesus Monkeys do not have a simular human lung to verifiably prove their testing.
the whole thing is that the proof lacks integrity.
VAERS (Vaccine Advers Event Reporting System) is another problem. The DOD said that they experienced a safe and effacious vaccine with thei administration of this vaccine due to the fact that they have a .07 reaction rate under VAERS. I will clue you into a couple of important things that are easily verifiable. VAERS is NOT proactive. It is COMPLETLY passive. If you do not report a reaction, it is not known. Administrations of this program filtered all reports before being sent to VAERS. As a result they had a very artifically low number. Add to this that GAO did confirm that VAERS is under reported system wide by a factor of 100. This is stunning. The DOD had terrible reactiosn with this vaccine. And many members are being told that their newly experianced maladies are NOT Anthrax vaccine related. It was cart blanche denial. they were not even allowed to look at that avenue.
Finally, you are very wrong that ANY of us against this vaccine are somehow ANTI-Vaccine. Not at all. On the contrary, we are excited about the 2nd generation vaccine being developed by 2 other companies. I will be the first to line up, roll up and take it.
There is a lot more to this than superfiucial information you get from www.osd.mil