A little repetitive I know, but so was the link you gave:
A bunch of misleading claims and a bibliography consisting entirely of
secondary sources. Secondary sources written by homeopaths (aka quacks)
and dentists! Give me a break!
http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/vacsafe.htm#The%20safety%20record%20on%20vaccines
By promoting ignorant horseshit and encouraging other mothers to avoid
vaccination, you are killing children. If you feel good about killing
children, then ignorance must truly be fucking bliss.
http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/qa.htm#Is%20it%20true%20that%20polio
The incidence of vaccine-caused polio between 1979 and 1999 was 1 in 2.4
million OPV doses. Letting your child ride a bike to school has 110
times the risk of injury. Walking to school has 25 times the risk, and
driving your kid to school has 15 times the risk of injury.
Keep in mind, that's not 110 times as much risk over the course of the
year or over the course of childhood, but 110 times the risk of injury
for each and every trip.
Do you let your kid ride a bike, ride in cars or walk? How irresponsible!
The good news is: Since 1999, overseas polio vaccinations became
sufficiently widespread that OPV vaccination in North America became
unecessary. That is, until folks like you convince enough parents to not
vaccinate their kids that herd immunity is lost and a polio outbreak
spreads among unvaccinated kids. That will suck when it happens.
The bad news is: Measles is already back thanks to that fucking asshole
Wakefield and thousands of ignorant parents and propaganda like the shit
you pointed to.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,379388,00.html
Mumps too:
http://www.thecollegeview.com/2009/03/21/mumps-outbreak-hitting-colleges/
You must ban DHMO!! DHMO is a key ingredient in all vaccines.
http://www.dhmo.org/
AS! ds++:+++ a++ c+++ p++ t+ f-- S+ p+ e++ h++ r++ n++ i+ P+ m++ M
Apparently the author thinks it's better to get the disease instead of the
vaccination. Vaccines have their risks, but the diseases they can prevent
are far worse and much more likely to occur than any vaccine side effects.
The worst side effect my kids have ever had was a slight fever lasting not
even a day.
>If you have ever felt
'felt'?
this is subject calling for thought, not 'feeling'. and for
evaluation, not reaction to scare stories.
vaccines aren't perfectly 'safe', only very much safer than illness.
educate yourself about the risks of measles or polio circulating in
the population, then compare one with the other. you'll find that
vaccination is vastly the better option.
Baba Yaga
Vaccines do not cause autism. The risks of getting a disease and having to
deal with its effects are far greater than the risks posed by any
vaccination. In Indonesia and many other counrties, people get sick and even
die from diseases that are preventable by vaccines. On of my in-laws
neighbors children in Indonesia just died of meningetis. This is a disease
that can be prevented by an immunization that this child never had. In
Indonesia, where vaccines are not always available or parents don't know
where to get them there are many cases of meningitis, measels and so many
other diseases we are routinely immunized against. We should be greatful
that we can get vaccines.
From what I read... it is a key ingrediant in many things. But even
without that ingrediant... vaccines are not safe and the misleading
statistics, via change in diagnosis criteria does not prove that they
are.
http://www.whale.to/a/sh.html
More sophist bullshit? And 50 year old thoroughly debunked sophist
bullshit at that?!? Mindy, give it a rest already.
No redefinition of terms reduced the incidence of polio from thousands
per year to 10 per year. The OPV did that by eliminating polio and by
saving lives.
DHMO is, indeed, a key ingredient in many things. The dhmo.org site
exists to demonstrate how scaremongering quacks and nutcases can make
the most innocuous substances sound terrifying. That's why Canth sent
you there.
So, you think everything *else* is safe?!?
Nothing that we put into our bodies is 100% safe. Look at the labels
on the food that you eat sometime. How many ingredients are
unpronouncable and certainly not natural ingredients, but are
chemicals? What about the meat that comes from animals who have been
fed hormones, antibiotics and God knows what else? What about
vegetables and fruits that have been sprayed with all sorts of things
or grown in soil treated with chemicals?
Then take a look at what's in the stuff you clean your house or even
your body with. Ammonia, bleach, petroleum, etc. We put all sorts of
toxins all over ourselves when we shower and use certain body washes
and shampoos, squirt some cologne on, put on makeup, deodorant, etc.
Then there is what's in the environment, in the air, in the clothes we
wear.
Every day, people are exposed to toxins. Lots of them! These toxins
are inhaled, eaten, drunk, and taken in through the skin all the
time.
I would wager a guess that there are more toxins coming in from the
environment on a daily basis than what's in one vaccine.
Since we're on the subject of pharmaceuticals, let's look a little
deeper:
How many of these anti-vaccine people have their autistic children on
anti psychotics or other psychiatric medications? Do they know what
the long term effects are of most psychiatric medications? Do they
know what these things can do a child's body? (Do they care?)
How many of these people are putting their autistic children on herbal
remedies or other things that might also cause harm? "Natural" doesn't
always equal "safe" either!
How about chelation? That one's nice and safe, eh? Sure... it's
killed a few people, but hey... vaccines are worse, right?
Now, let's look at what would happen if we had no vaccines. Anyone
here old enough to remember what it was like when polio and other
nasty diseases were common? I've met many people who are still
impaired by the effects of polio and rheumatic fever (rheumatoid
arthritis anyone?)
Jenny McCarthy, our favourite (note sarcasm) antivaccine crusader,
says the following in an interview: "I do believe sadly it’s going to
take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and
develop vaccines that are safe. If the vaccine companies are not
listening to us, it’s their f___ing fault that the diseases are coming
back. They’re making a product that’s s___. If you give us a safe
vaccine, we’ll use it. It shouldn’t be polio versus autism." (See this
article http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=439)
Oh, ok. It's ok for children to die or become permantly disabled by
something lik polio just to what...prevent autism? Despite the fact
that thimerosol was taken out of vaccines years ago, kids are still
being diagnosed with autism.
So...it's ok for diseases to come back because of unproven theories
about the correlation between vaccines and autism?
How many folks are dangerously experimenting with their children's
health and potentially ruining their children's (autistic or not)
lives because of the lack of decent research and the words of actors
and business executives who rail against vaccines, etc.?
That's a very dangerous fallacy. Very dangerous indeed.
I weep for the future.
Arak /|\
> On Apr 28, 9:19 pm, kidsrc...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>If you have ever felt like vaccines weren't all they are cracked up to
>>be, you were right. This is very long, very frightening and very
>>interesting. And the one page isn't all of it. Make an informed
>>decision before you choose to or choose not to vaccinate. Don't ever
>>use the excuse " I didn't know " because "I didn't know" or "I never
>>knew" are not good enough excuses. Ignorance is no alibi!http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/polio2.htm
>
> So, you think everything *else* is safe?!?
>
> Nothing that we put into our bodies is 100% safe. Look at the labels
> on the food that you eat sometime. How many ingredients are
> unpronouncable and certainly not natural ingredients, but are
> chemicals? What about the meat that comes from animals who have been
> fed hormones, antibiotics and God knows what else? What about
> vegetables and fruits that have been sprayed with all sorts of things
> or grown in soil treated with chemicals?
Forget chemicals, riding a bike to school just one time is more than 100
times as dangerous as taking a dose of the oral polio vaccine. Even if a
parent never lets their kid bike to school, strapping the kid in the car
and driving the kid to school just one time is 15 times as dangerous.
Of course, psychotic nut cases like Mindy and Jan probably recommend
homeschooling anyway.
--
�T
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"Space folds, and folded space bends, and bent folded space contracts and
expands unevenly in every way unconcievable except to someone who does not
believe in the laws of mathematics"
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Gareeth
I'm not aware that we have a vaccine yet for swine flu. If one is made
available, I'm sure it will be safe.
However, I've managed to last for around 4 decades without needing a flu
shot. Outside of Mexico, the symptoms have been very mild (only 1 person
died outside Mexico, and that was a 2 year old Mexican child).
It's been another exercise in hype. Gave the media something to write about,
and various people got the opportunity to practice for a pandemic. It's not
happened this time.
>I'm not aware that we have a vaccine yet for swine flu.
Just like the vaccine for the "best guess" varieties for seasonal flu,
it's of the order of months (don't know if anyone's started yet).
The concern is that (just like other flu) it will damp down over the
summer months - as it appears to be doing - But flare up in the more
favourable winter season.
>Gave the media something to write about,
>and various people got the opportunity to practice for a pandemic.
Well, in the UK contact tracing seems to have hit a problem;
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/01/e_borders_pig_plague/
(they can't find the details of the other passengers who were on the
plane with the two first confirmed cases).
--
Terry
Scare for scare.
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�T
L'autisme c'est moi
"Space folds, and folded space bends, and bent folded space contracts and
expands unevenly in every way unconcievable except to someone who does not
believe in the laws of mathematics"
"Gareeth" <Garee...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I used to get the vax along with my mum who was even more vulnerable. She
eventually died of pneumonia. I do recall on one occasion the flu vax made
me feel slightly ill.
I think I probably have a lot of herd immunity to various strains of flu,
enough to deal with any but the joker in the pack.
It is posited that over 50's unless they have some other weakness are less
vulnerable because of the increased lifetime exposure to various strains.
After all I have lived through the last two pandemics, and there were no
vaccines then.
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�T
L'autisme c'est moi
"Space folds, and folded space bends, and bent folded space contracts and
expands unevenly in every way unconcievable except to someone who does not
believe in the laws of mathematics"
"Stephen Wilson" <stephen.wils...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> I wonder though what the reaction of these anti vax people who are obviously
> vulnerable to media scares will be when the hyped up fear of an early death
> from swine flu and its envisioned proximity will trump the fears of autism?
>
> Scare for scare.
All these little scares that turn out to be nothing will only embolden
them. When a real pandemic strain comes along, any who survive might
convert to vaccination. It depends on how many of their unvaccinated
relatives die.
Commonwealth Serum Laboratories are in full swing. Expected to have
doses of vaccine in 12 weeks.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25420129-2862,00.html
I know there was a vaccine for it in 1976, but I haven't heard anything
about a vaccine for the current revision of swine flu.
Just wondering about this whole world wide pandemic thing. I read this
morning that there over 1000 confirmed cases world wide, but there are
6,000,000,000 people in the world. Is this really a pandemic?
One wonders what the stats would have been without the vax, we will never
know.
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�T
L'autisme c'est moi
"Space folds, and folded space bends, and bent folded space contracts and
expands unevenly in every way unconcievable except to someone who does not
believe in the laws of mathematics"
"Bob Badour" <bba...@pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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All depends on what criteria you use. I think various countries have their
own definitions, but the World Health Organisation has a list, and we're
currently at phase 5 in that. Phase 5 means that the virus is being spread
human to human in at least 2 countries within the WHO region. It doesn't
mean we have a full-scale pandemic, but that there is the possibility of it
becoming such.
> The problem is, that the last swine flu vaccine used against humans in the
> US killed more than the outbreak did. In 1976 500 Vaccinees went down with
> Guillian Barre syndrome and 25 died, 40,000000 were vaccinated so that is
> still pretty small odds, but only one person died of actual swine flu.
>
> One wonders what the stats would have been without the vax, we will never
> know.
To a certain extent, the battle against influenza is a case of generals
fighting the last war. It's possible for another really killer influenza
to come along, and of the past human pathogens, influenza is the one
least evolved to live with us.
But, the next really killer pandemic will probably be something we have
never seen in humans before like when influenza first crossed over from
birds or when bubonic plague first broke out of the desert. That's when
we get a real noticeable population decline.
We all have to die sometime. The black death was not a universal disaster in
the long run as certainly the English Economy afterwards was much improved.
Some say that the Black Death could not have been what has later been
identified as Bubonic Plague, Bubonic plague is nothing like as deadly, some
posit that the Black Death was a kind of hemoraghic plague, maybe an
influenza strain.
Thing is if you cull all the chickens because of Bird Flu, where you gonna
find the eggs for the vaccines? Vaccine production is the bottleneck, the
technology is out of date.
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�T
L'autisme c'est moi
"Space folds, and folded space bends, and bent folded space contracts and
expands unevenly in every way unconcievable except to someone who does not
believe in the laws of mathematics"
"Bob Badour" <bba...@pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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