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Stuart Anderson
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“I am the 70s child of a health nut. And I wasn’t vaccinated.”
Amy Parker grew up unvaccinated.
I am the 70s child of a health nut. I wasn’t vaccinated. I was brought up on an incredibly healthy diet: no sugar till
I was one, breastfed for over a year, organic homegrown vegetables, raw
milk, no MSG, no additives, no aspartame. My mother used homeopathy,
aromatherapy, osteopathy, we took daily supplements of vitamin C,
echinacea, cod liver oil.
I had an outdoor lifestyle; I grew up next to a farm, walked everywhere, did sports and danced twice a week, drank plenty of water. I wasn’t even allowed pop; even my fresh juice was watered down to protect my teeth, and I would’ve killed for white, shop-bought bread in my lunch box once in a while and biscuits instead of fruit like all the other kids.
I am the 70s child of a health nut. I wasn’t vaccinated. I was brought up on an incredibly healthy diet: no sugar till I was one, breastfed for over a year, organic homegrown vegetables, raw milk, no MSG, no additives, no aspartame. My mother used homeopathy, aromatherapy, osteopathy, we took daily supplements of vitamin C, echinacea, cod liver oil.
I had an outdoor lifestyle; I grew up next to a farm, walked everywhere, did sports and danced twice a week, drank plenty of water. I wasn’t even allowed pop; even my fresh juice was watered down to protect my teeth, and I would’ve killed for white, shop-bought bread in my lunch box once in a while and biscuits instead of fruit like all the other kids.
We only ate (organic local) meat maybe once or twice a week and my mother and father cooked everything from scratch – I have yet to taste a Findus crispy pancake and oven chips were reserved for those nights when mum and dad had friends over and we got a “treat.”
“How could I, with my idyllic childhood and my amazing health food, get so freaking ill all the time?”
As healthy as my lifestyle seemed, I contracted measles, mumps, rubella, a type of viral meningitis, scarlatina, whooping cough, yearly tonsillitis, and chickenpox, some of which are vaccine preventable. In my twenties I got precancerous HPV and spent 6 months of my life wondering how I was going to tell my two children under the age of 7 that mummy might have cancer before it was safely removed.
So having the “natural immunity sterilised out of us” just doesn’t cut it for me. How could I, with my idyllic childhood and my amazing health food, get so freaking ill all the time?
My mother was the biggest health freak around–she would put most of my current “crunchy” friends to shame. She didn’t drink, she didn’t smoke, she didn’t do drugs and we certainly weren’t allowed to watch whatever we wanted on telly or wear plastic shoes or any of that stuff. She LIVED alternative health. And you know what? I’m glad she gave us the great diet that we had, I’m glad that she cared about us in that way.
But it just didn’t stop me getting childhood illnesses.
My two vaccinated children, on the other hand, have rarely been ill, have had antibiotics maybe twice in their lives, if that (not like me who got so many illnesses which needed treatment with antibiotics that I developed a resistance to them, which led me to be hospitalized with penicillin-resistant quinsy at 21–you know that old fashioned disease that killed Queen Elizabeth I and which was almost wiped out through use of antibiotics).
My kids have had no childhood illnesses other than chickenpox, which they both contracted while still breastfeeding. They too grew up on a healthy diet, homegrown organics etc. Not to the same extent as I did, though, as I was not quite as strict as my mother, but they are both healthier than I have ever been.
“If you think your child’s immune system is strong enough to fight off vaccine-preventable diseases, then it’s strong enough to fight off the tiny amounts of dead or weakened pathogens present in any of the vaccines.”
I find myself wondering about the claim that complications from childhood illnesses are extremely rare but that “vaccine injuries” are rampant. If this is the case, I struggle to understand why I know far more people who have experienced complications from preventable childhood illnesses than I have EVER met with complications from vaccines. I have friends who became deaf from measles. I have a partially sighted friend who contracted rubella in the womb. My ex got pneumonia from chickenpox. A friend’s brother died from meningitis.
Anecdotal evidence is nothing to base decisions on. But when facts and evidence-based science aren’t good enough to sway someone’s opinion, then this is where I come from. After all, anecdotes are the anti-vaccine supporter’s way. Well, this is my personal experience. And my personal experience prompts me to vaccinate my children and myself. I got the flu vaccine recently, and I am getting the whooping cough booster to protect my unborn baby. My natural immunity from having whooping cough at age 5 will not protect him once he’s born.
I understand, to a point, where the anti-vaccine parents are coming from. Back in the 90s when I was a concerned, 19-year-old mother, frightened by the world I was bringing my child into, I was studying homeopathy, herbalism and aromatherapy; I believed in angels, witchcraft, clairvoyants, crop circles, aliens at Nazca, giant ginger mariners spreading their knowledge to the Aztecs, the Incas and the Egyptians and that I was somehow personally blessed by the Holy Spirit with healing abilities.
I was having my aura read at a hefty price and filtering the fluoride out of my water. I was choosing to have past life regressions instead of taking anti-depressants. I was taking my daily advice from tarot cards. I grew all my own veg and made my own herbal remedies.
I was so freaking crunchy that I literally crumbled. It was only when I took control of those paranoid thoughts and fears about the world around me and became an objective critical thinker that I got well. It was when I stopped taking sugar pills for everything and started seeing medical professionals that I began to thrive physically and mentally.
If you think your child’s immune system is strong enough to fight off vaccine-preventable diseases, then it’s strong enough to fight off the tiny amounts of dead or weakened pathogens present in any of the vaccines.
But not everyone around you is that strong, not everyone has a choice, not everyone can fight those illnesses, and not everyone can be vaccinated. If you have a healthy child, then your healthy child can cope with vaccines and can care about those unhealthy children who can’t.
Teach your child compassion, and teach your child a sense of responsibility for those around them. Don’t teach your child to be self serving and scared of the world in which it lives and the people around him/her. And teach them to LOVE people with ASD or any other disability for that matter, not to label them as damaged.
“Those of you who have avoided childhood illnesses without vaccines are lucky. You couldn’t do it without us pro-vaxxers.”
And lastly but most importantly for me – knowingly exposing your child to childhood illnesses is cruel; even without complications these diseases aren’t exactly pleasant. I don’t know about you, but I don’t enjoy watching children suffer even with a cold or a hurt knee. If you’ve never had these illnesses you don’t know how awful they are – I do.
Pain, discomfort, the inability to breathe or to eat or to swallow, fever and nightmares, itching all over your body so much that you can’t stand lying on bed sheets, losing so much weight you can’t walk properly, diarrhea that leaves you lying prostrate on the bathroom floor, the unpaid time off work for parents (and if you’re self employed that means NO INCOME), the quarantine, missing school, missing parties, the worry, the sleepless nights, the sweat, the tears and the blood, the midnight visits to A and E, sitting in a doctor’s waiting room on your own because no one will sit near you because they’re rightfully scared of those spots all over your kid’s face.
Those of you who have avoided childhood illnesses without vaccines are lucky. You couldn’t do it without us pro-vaxxers. Once the vaccination rates begin dropping, the less herd immunity will be able to protect your children. The more people you convert to your anti-vax stance, the quicker that luck will run out.
This post was originally published Voices For Vaccines (www.voicesforvaccines.org). You can follow them on Facebook here and Twitter here.
Amy Parker is a 37 year old mother of two teenagers, with a new arrival on the way. She was brought up in the idyllic countryside of the Lake District, England by health conscious parents. She currently lives on the Fylde Coast in England where she teaches piano and singing.
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Greg Beattie
I am 73 years old, so I have a good knowledge of the health of the nation and the diseases and sicknesses that have troubled the nation of Australia. When I was young we all had measles and chicken pox, and were sick for a few days, miserable and our parents fussed over us trying to make us comfortable. I remember standing in the cot at 3 years old screaming out for “mummy” and then “daddy” to come a save me from this horrible hospital where my tonsils were about to be removed. Everyone had it done then, in 1943 as it was the custom. It was also the custom to circumcise baby boys, which continued up until around 1972 when the Whitlam government was elected. Apparently Labor did not believe in circumcision, probably because it was a custom inherited from the bible, England and the Crown and they were intent to change our customs, our government system and our belief systems, which they successfully achieved without the awareness of the people.
I do not recall hearing of anyone catching mumps, although I was aware of it, but I did get mumps in my 30’s and was very sick. I would not recommend anyone trying to catch any of the diseases, but if you do, you usually get over it. There was also an eye problem in dusty outback places called “Sandy blight” where your eyes would stick together, probably similar to conjunctivitis. With a couple of days application of Golden Eye Ointment, it would disappear. This has now disappeared from the market, along with Gentian Violet which cured all fungal problems. Interesting how they take things off the market when they work well!!! There will never be a sickness free society, it is just part of life.
I remember in 1955 when the nurses came into the high school and we were all given a TB injection and I think DTP (Diphtheria, Tetanus, Whooping Cough) in the shoulder and an oral polio vaccine. This was the first mass vaccination of the population. Nobody knew anyone with any of these diseases because they had disappeared at least a decade before. Some of the girls fainted, but the rest of us were just left with a scar where the injection was done.
A few years later a heard of the first case of leukaemia in a child, who tragically died about aged 12. Up until then children did not get cancer, or if they did it was very rare and you certainly did not see disabled children anywhere. I must admit they may have been kept at home?
Children were mostly well behaved, because there was no fast food available, no fluoride in the water, hardly any chemicals and if you didn’t behave you would get a smack on the backside and not be game to do it again, because you would get another smack.
My first child was born in 1961 and probably had a couple of vaccines for DTP and polio, but I can’t recall. He was well behaved.
The second child was born in 1963 healthy and strong, but developed eczema at 3 months. Was hard to handle from about 12 months, and seemed to have no concept of danger or parental control.
The third child was born in 1971 and developed asthma after his 4 month vaccination and was continually at death’s door for 3 years. The little boy across the street also had asthma, and a neighbour’s child was uncontrollable after his 12 month vaccination and his hospital visit. His mother said “they have given me another child”. Another young mother remarked “One day they will find a name for children like this”. It was many years later that ADD, ADHD, Autism, Asperger’s was identified as a “problem.
Thus commenced the brain damage caused by vaccines, which has now increased to such an extent that there has to be a whole new “syndrome” invented to try and explain what has happened. The degree of brain damage depends on the vaccine itself, the combination of what vaccines are given, the overall health of the child and the immune response of the child. Some are lucky enough not to be affected, but boys are twice as likely to be brain damaged for some unexplained reason. With the newborn vaccines, the damage will now be blamed on something else, but never vaccination.
7% of children between 0-14 in Australia are disabled (that is 288,348)
of which 89,847 have profound limitation.
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Main+Features30Jun+2012#Children
I am certainly not saying that all disability is caused by vaccination, but proper research needs to be done on how many parents, nurses and doctors saw a change after vaccination.
Those who want to vaccinate their children: go ahead and do so after doing proper research, which is now available on the internet, though not so in the medical fields of the mainstream media (controlled by those who benefit financially by vaccination). We have all witnessed children have a change in personality after vaccination, but parents are told “oh they are just getting older and changing”, but sometimes the change is profound and nobody will listen to the parents.
If the vaccines work there should be no risk of catching a disease from an unvaccinated child. Think about it.
But for those of us who are horrified by putting diseases, poisons and shocking concoctions into our defenceless little healthy children, and our own bodies, although pro-vaccinators will be angry with this article, you have no right to attack us for our beliefs, which will eventually be found to be the truth and you will be ashamed of your actions. Injecting newborns is an abomination, especially with GM components.
When the Egyptian Pharaoh killed the newborn boys in the time of Moses’ birth (Exodus 1:22) and King Herod killed the 2 years and under baby boys in an attempt to kill the child of God (Matthew 2:16) it was called “The slaughter of the Innocents”. What shall it now be called?
Bev L. Pattenden 8TH January, 2014
http://www.naturalnews.com/043330_vaccines_whooping_cough_disease_outbreaks.html
http://nsnbc.me/2013/05/08/bill-gates-polio-vaccine-program-caused-47500-cases-of-paralysis-death/
Mercury in flu vaccine is linked to autism
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-153722/Mercury-flu-vaccine-linked-autism.html#
Visual proof that mercury destroys brain tissue - NaturalNews.tv
http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=50A93DCA627FF5AB57C0F22827909993
How Mercury triggered the “Age of Autism”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KiT7Y233404
On Thursday, January 2, 2014 11:33:51 PM UTC+10, Stuart Anderson wrote: