You are more likely to get people to buy your Pharmaceutical Drug if you call an ordinaryIllness a deadly Disease, and claim that your product can prevent it.
Babar, the elephant, would not have made a very good pharmaceutical sales rep! After all, Fear Is What Sells Vaccines.
Did Babar say, "Measles is a terrible disease! You will all be hospitalized for weeks if not months! Oh, how I wish there was a vaccine available to stop this horrid and deadly plague!"
No. Of course not! Babar treated measles as just another rite of passage in childhood. He was not afraid as he had never heard of a child injured by measles.
Babar said ...
Measles isn't a serious illness, so after a few days the children were able to get up. But they stayed in their rooms and played quiet games.
Babar brought them presents. He gave Pom and Alexander two marvelous racing cars. Flora had a toy clown, which made a noise when it was squeezed.
People in North America were no longer dying of measles when I was a child. I was born in 1968 in BC, Canada and most people did not receive a measles vaccine if they were born before 1970. I never heard of a single case of death from measles.
My parents weren't worried and I wasn't worried. It was uncomfortable but I was happy to have a week off of school.
In fact, getting a case of measles is proven to have many health benefits.
I believe that by avoiding measles and other normal childhood illness, we have given rise to TRUE DISEASE!
The DISEASES that I am concerned about are cancer, asthma, diabetes, etc.
These are all DISEASES that are side-effects of vaccination.
And let's not forget all the CHRONIC ILLNESSES that children have these days!
Measles is NOT a chronic illness, as a person is ill for about a week and then becomes vibrant and healthy once again. However, taking a measles vaccine or other vaccines may easily result in a chronic illness that lasts a lifetime.
In Summary --- MEASLES DOESN'T SCARE ME! So quit trying to push your vaccinations down my throat.
The state of children's health today, since we have humongously increased the childhood vaccination schedule, is atrocious! Things are so very, very different now than they were when I was a child, 48 short years ago, when we received very few vaccinations.
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I know that this is a very controversial topic ...
but if you care about children as much as I care about children...
surely we can all be civil and help each other discover the best way forward for all our children and future generations.
While I am skeptical about some of the harm attributed to vaccines, I do wonder at the paranoia regarding things like measles and the flu for those who are not in at-risk groups.
It should be possible to be in favor of vaccination without believing that it's a marvelous idea to inject every single vaccine that they invent and want to sell you.
When they start shaming and forcing people to get every single vaccine, whether you think it's necessary or not, and especially when there are known adverse reactions (ie VAERS & Vaccine Injury Court) than it makes you start to question the whole system.
Thank-you for your comment Jacob!
My sister and I had a great vacation from school while recovering from measles, everyone I know back in the 60s got chicken pox and the measles, no one died!
Exactly!
It truly boggles my mind how scared people are of measles.
As an example, a couple of people went down to a University in Texas and stood outside doing a survey with students.
They asked the university students if they could choose -- would they choose measles or autism. Over half of the students said they would choose autism. When asked why, the students said, "because measles kills!"
The level of brainwashing is ridiculous.
I am a measles survivor as are my parents, all of my siblings, nearly my entire 5th grade class, most of the school.
I know in rare cases it can be a dangerous, but I don't think many have looked into how rare those problems are. As the population gets "younger" nobody remembers many of us have had - Measles, Mumps, Chickenpox, Whooping Cough. You would think I would be a mess having had all of those dangerous illnesses.
ha ha ...
I am a measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox survivor.
Amazing how most of us who had those illnesses as children were all much, much more vibrant and healthier children than the children of today who have been spared these illnesses.
Thank you for another well done post on this most important topic!
A benefit of actually contracting the measles and other childhood illness is the protection that they provide against cancer. This is an important benefit that is being swept under the carpet.
Another matter if consideration is that there are numerous studies that link the measles vaccines to cancer. When considering that possiblity think about the money to be made on cancer treatments and who benefits.
Please keep up the good work your posts are well done and informative.
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I'm always glad to hear your input, Mary.
It is such a shame that people want to stop measles altogether when it actually provides a benefit to the immune system. One lady on Facebook commented that her grandma called measles "Boot Camp" for the immune system.
That lady's grandma is one smart cookie!
My kids are not vaccinated. My primary concern with it is that since measles, mumps, rubella, etc. aren't exactly around for them to catch as young children, what might the impact be should they contract those illnesses as adolescents and adults. Do you have some good information about that?
When my children are around 17/18, I plan to have their titres drawn (blood) to see if they have antibodies for measles, mumps and rubella. (I know they already have chickenpox antibodies.)
I have heard a couple of unvaccinated adults say that they don't remember ever having those illnesses, but their blood-work showed that they had indeed been exposed and built up antibodies.
My guess is that those live vaccines might have shed from other recently vaccinated children, and the illnesses were so mild with so few spots, that their parents didn't recognize them.
(p.s. when my daughter had chickenpox after playing several times with friends who had it, she only displayed the fever and one single spot, but the fever came at exactly the right time predicted by the known incubation period.)
So -- you may find out that they are good once they are adults.
If it turns out that my girls don't have immunity to rubella, I will look into getting them the homeopathis nosode version of protection from rubella, only because that would protect their unborn children during pregnancy. (Rubella is the one known to most likely harm unborn babies.)
As to measles and mumps, it is more difficult to endure during adulthood. It is still rare for severe problems to happen in adulthood, although the chances of problems are much greater than in childhood. For example, mumps is more likely to cause some infertility in males if the testes swell up, but it is almost always partial and temporary infertility, perhaps lasting up to a year.
That's a great idea to check the titres. Thanks for the info. I've heard of the nosode protection but had forgotten about it. I know that measles eats up a lot of vitamin A (hence the side effect of blindness in malnourished children), so I guess if any of us gets it as an adult then we'd have to be sure to dose up on the cod liver oil. Mumps would not be fun... Hopefully the titres will show antibodies :)
My favorite catchy song is "Stay Ebola Free"
And it doesn't even mention vaccination in the song. By the way where did The EBOLA epidemic go? I guess big pharma ran out of vaccinations... so, fast forward to the next health scare. DOH!
I'm more concerned with super bugs! https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/ Maybe efforts should be made for better antibiotics.
Well, you learn something new every day... I had no idea that measles had a "death rate"! How ridiculous!!!
I still never got my measles shot lol :/
"In 2011, the WHO estimated that 158,000 deaths were caused by measles." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles#Epidemiology
Did you even read the article?
People aren't and weren't dying of measles in North America or countries with good infrastructure and good food available.
You are talking about people who are malnourished and/or living in filth.
That doesn't apply to me or my children.
I've had the measles-- it's not Ebola.
" During the 1950s an annual average of greater than 500,000 cases of measles and nearly 500 deaths due to measles were reported in the United States. Surveys indicated that 95% of the population had been infected with measles by the age of 15 years. The introduction of measles vaccine and its widespread use, which began in 1963, has had a major impact on the occurrence of measles in the United States. Reported numbers of cases, deaths due to measles, and complications of measles (e.g., encephalitis) have declined dramatically." Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6878996
When someone is already gravely ill or immune compromised practically ANYTHING can kill them, even a cold. It's not fair to blame the normally harmless childhood illness of measles for being a killer.
500 deaths a year is nothing to get hysterical over, when you consider the HUGE population.
http://vaxtruth.org/2012/01/measles-perspective/
And just because there is a benefit does not mean that there isn't a risk. The risk factor for the measles vaccines is outrageous compared to the actual measles. You are much, much, much more likely to die from the measles vaccine than from the measles.
Oh, I give up!
Measles don't scare you... They don't scare me either. I'd be more worried about the pneumonia that follows.
According to the WHO:
"In 2015, there were 134 200 measles deaths globally – about 367 deaths every day or 15 deaths every hour.
Measles vaccination resulted in a 79% drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2015 worldwide."
If you could prevent it why wouldn't you?