It’s begun…the first state to officially REQUIRE flu vaccinations for children is New Jersey. New Jersey has mandated that all children attending preschool or day care be vaccinated against the flu as well as a pneumococcal vaccine. According to Susan Markel’s blog post on Babycenter, children who have not received the flu vaccine are to be excluded from attending, unless they can provide proof that they are in the process of getting a dose of the vaccine within two weeks after the deadline, the state New Jersey Health Department said. Many parents are furious. Rightly so. There is very heated debate about the effectiveness of the flu vaccine (just follow the string of comments that follow Susan’s post and you’ll get an idea as to how heated it can get). There are many strains of influenza at any given time making it difficult to predict which strains will be most common and should be vaccinated against in a season. So if they don’t formulate the vaccine correctly, you could end up getting the flu anyway. In addition, the flu vaccine in it’s multi-dose form is one of the remaining vaccines to still contain the mercury based preservative Thimerosal, which has been suspected to cause neurological disorders such as Autism, ADD, and ADHD. So if you opt for a flu vaccination, make sure you’re getting the thimerosal-free version.
I just don’t get it. What is happening to our freedom to parent our children? We should have the right to decide whether or not to inject our children with drugs and potentially toxic chemicals. Yes the flu can cause death but what is the true risk? Based on my research, it is estimated that 20,000 people die from the flu out of the 50,000,000 people who are estimated to get the illness each year. That’s a .04% chance that you will die from the illness. You’re more likely to die from choking (1 in a 1,000 or .1%)! Does that mean we stop eating and only drink liquids? It may be a stretch, but you see where I’m going with this.
It’s time to stop the “vaccination madness” and allow children to build immunity naturally to diseases such as chicken pox and flu. I had both as a child and while it wasn’t pleasant, I’m still here! I do believe vaccinations against some diseases are necessary and I am grateful for modern medicine, but where do we draw the line?
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Even if you can get a vaccine that doesn’t contain mercury, most vaccines also contain aluminum. Using the numbers from “Addressing Parents’ Concerns: Do Vaccines Cause Allergic or Autoimmune Diseases? by Paul A. Offit, MD* and Charles J. Hackett, PhD” – The risk of asthma from one childhood vaccination is 1%. Since most children get more than one vaccination…. 15 vaccinations would give a 15% risk of getting asthma?
There are other problems with the vaccines. Food is often used in the culture medium and food oils used in the vaccine adjuvant. Trace amounts of food protein can remain in the vaccine. These ingredients do not have to appear on the vaccine package insert. (Protected trade secret) This could be the cause of the high rate of food allergy in young children.
If you read patents for culture mediums and vaccine adjuvants, you will find everything from powdered skim milk, eggs, beef, to peanut, soy, sesame, fish, and shellfish oils.
Since none of these ingredients must appear on the label, doctors have no idea that they may be injecting peanut oil into a peanut-allergic patient.
Most vaccine studies only study the effect of one vaccine and ignore the rest. It is kinda like sticking 14 nails in someone’s foot and only taking out one. Then saying that since the foot still hurts this nail didn’t cause a problem and is relatively safe to stick into people’s feet.