RE: Vaccines DO NOT STOP Disease!
I think people should make their own decisions, and I do not buy into forced vaccinations.
However, having a little girl, I have chosen to vaccinate and I still very much believe it is the right choice.
Being Scandinavian and married to a girl from England, but residing in the US, I often hear proponents and opponents of vaccines, clash on this subject.
When there is an outbreak of any disease, both vaccinated and un-vaccinated individuals will catch the disease. Vaccination is no guarantee and people often point to more people who are vaccinated, catch the disease, but they also fail to understand that most people are vaccinated, but percentage-wise it is not so.
Anyway. I read all the comments here, and I certainly dont want to play the devils advocate, but I think these observations are important:
In 3rd world countries, where vaccination is not readily available, you still see elevated deaths from common, or almost eliminated, diseases. When a vaccine is introduced to that community, you will see a drop.
When I take one of the above graphs - Pertussis (whooping cough) - deaths in England, it is easy to see that the mortality rate fell steadily up until the vaccine was introduced. It is the case for many, if not, most diseases. When a society gets developed and have access to clean water, basic housing and have a working sewage system, the mortality rate dips.
In England, they had indeed seen a steady decline, but there were still about 100K reported cases of Pertussis each year and about 2K died from it. less than 20 years after the introduction of the vaccine, about 80% of children had been vaccinated and only 2K cases were reported each year. Nowadays, it is less than 1000 cases each year and very few deaths. Almost all the deaths are infants who get the disease from their siblings or parents. And yes, they could be both vaccinated and un-vaccinated.
I understand this topic gets people's blood boiling, but know that there are arguments for both sides.
I live in San Francisco, and I consider myself extremely liberal.
Namaste
Understanding the difference between cause and effect .
Everyday millions of children are lined up and injected with toxic putrid substances grown on animal organs, cancer cells, aborted fetuses and other toxic substances. Few people are questioning how those viruses were obtained and how they were grown in a laboratory. If one would ask these sensible questions, one would become very enlightened about vaccine production.
Any medical professional who believes that it is justified to inject known neurotoxins, antibiotics, antigens, preservatives, adjuvants, stabilizers, buffers, emulsifiers, polysorbate 80, aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde, live viruses, egg protein, human DNA, human cell lines from aborted infants, and protein from human blood into any person to prevent any disease is completely misguided, misinformed, deluded and ignorant of any logic regarding human health.
"In 1993 a high court judge in the UK decided that it was impossible to know the exact contents of vaccines and that science had no idea what the cocktail of chemicals, contaminants and heavy metals contained in vaccines could do to the human body, or why they would work to prevent disease." -- British Medical Journal, 1993.
To take the result of a disease and claim it will prevent disease was and is absurd.
Toxoids prevent toxins?
Poison prevents poison ?
Cow pus prevents small pox ?
That's like saying pimple pus prevents pimples