I bet you freaked out just a little bit when you read the title right? Megan? Leaving the anti-vaccination movement? Sorry to disappoint you. Someone would have to prove to me that God does not exist, I would have to switch religions, and someone would have to conduct a study showing vaccines are safe, effective, and do not have adverse reactions. To be perfectly honest though, I really don’t like these labels. I don’t vaccinate, but I respect your right to do otherwise. Is there a pro-parental rights movement? If so, sign me up for that one.
Needless to say there’s a new blogger on the scene who’s written a fairly popular post about why she left the anti-vaccination movement. Surprisingly, I found her tone of voice refreshing. She seems nice and she’s super cute too. She’s wearing a red dress on her home page and it made me want to go out and get a hot picture of myself in a red dress too. Alas’ I am a mom and the last time I wore a red dress was a Christmas nightgown I got from my Grandma when I was seven. She’s dead and so is that nightgown.
Regardless, I’d really like to be her friend (I wonder if she has friends who don’t vaccinate). However, I think all friendships should start off on the right foot, which is why I feel like we need to talk about this post.
As a mother, I haven’t given vaccinations to thousands of children, let alone my own. My mom is a nurse. My sister is an educator who is rocking the “stay at home mama movement” like me. My other sister is a chiropractor with a degree in biology. My husband is a physician with a degree in biology and a minor in chemistry. I just have a law degree. Nothing special. Just a little something I picked up to help me read, write, research, and think critically. Although my mom vaccinated us on what was a much smaller schedule when I was younger, she regrets that decision and refuses to give vaccinations now. To be perfectly honest, no one in our family vaccinates. We can’t…now that we know what we know.
I have no idea what pediatric nurse practitioners learn in school. What I do know is that physicians (although highly educated) learn next to nothing about vaccines. They are told to give them and shown a picture of a child in an iron lung or a kid with measles in a third-world country. They take immunology of course, but that is not the same as vaccinology. Despite their training, doctors (and scientists) know very little about the immune system which is why there is no medical cure for any chronic autoimmune disease. This should comfort us all.
Pediatricians of course, learn how to give vaccinations. They have to order these expensive vaccines with expiration dates and if you don’t vaccinate, they’re out money…lots and lots of money. They’re also out state excise taxes and insurance reimbursements. They are not trained to acknowledge or recognize vaccine injuries nor could they give you any drug to cure your child should they experience an adverse reaction. They didn’t learn any of this in their immunology class nor did they learn how any of the ingredients vaccines contain affect the immune system. To your surprise, they didn’t pour through the clinical trials or post-licensure studies. Very few have even read the package inserts because vaccines are presumed safe right?
Nurses are excellent at giving vaccinations. Seriously, they have a great technique (minus that one nurse who accidentally permanently injured my mom’s shoulder with a flu shot jab). They know how to store, prepare, and administer them. Most of the time this is done correctly, but I have never met a nurse who has had more training on vaccinations than a physician. Have you?
In Kid Nurse’s post she basically states that she took a pro-vaccine stance because there was no evidence to support that vaccines cause autism or shattered immune systems, because the small pox vaccine eradicated small pox, because a measles outbreak occurred in her area, she has a great uncle who is in a wheelchair because of polio, and she watched a 1-month old baby fight for its life from pertussis.
All of these are perfectly valid emotional reasons to vaccinate. However, I think if you’re going to get on your camel and make a journey to the “other side, “of the desert, you should probably do so on accurate assumption. And, since I miss taking tests, let’s do this true/false style:
Small pox was eradicated by the vaccine. False.
Small pox had greatly declined before the vaccine, increased after the vaccine in westernized countries, and was effectively eradicated in third-world countries due to the surveillance and containment quarantine program. The small pox vaccine was actually flawed, deadly, and ineffective, killing many and inflicting even more with serious adverse reactions. Small pox eventually exterminated itself when people had access to clean water, good food, clean living conditions, and proper hygiene. (For a very well-referenced book on the history of small pox, read this. Check out the package insert for the small pox vaccine here.)
Immunizations and vaccinations are interchangeable terms. False.
Guys, we have got to stop throwing around the terms “immunization” and vaccination as if they’re synonymous. Immunization is the process by which a person becomes immune to a disease. Vaccination does not guarantee immunity and any immunity given is temporary.
There is supposedly no “causal” connection between vaccines and autism. True.
There’s just a whole bunch of studies where children who were vaccinated got autism; a vaccine package insert that listed autism as a potential adverse reaction; court cases won by children who developed autism post-vaccination; studies that link seizures, brain encephalopathy, and gut disorders to vaccines and studies that link seizures, gut disorders, and brain encephalopathy to autism; a vaccine removed from the market because it caused brain damage in children (i.e. autism & DPT), studies on the ingredients in vaccines that cause autism, and a whole bunch of empirical data that is super important unless…it pertains to autism.
The best way to protect a baby from pertussis is to vaccinate. False.
Many people decide to vaccinate after they see a child injured from pertussis. Many people decide not to vaccinate because they have seen a child injured from the pertussis vaccine. These are both emotional arguments. The truth of the matter is that babies would be protected from many diseases if mothers acquired lifetime immunity via natural exposure and subsequently passed protective antibodies to their babies. Vaccines destroy this passive immunity and put our infants at risk. However, since neither the vaccine nor pertussis give lifetime immunity we now give ineffective, untested, dangerous, “Category C” Tdap vaccines to pregnant women.
That aside, as reported in 2012 by every major news outlet and confirmed by the CDC, the Dtap vaccine is ineffective and wanes over time which is why we see pertussis outbreaks occurring in almost exclusively vaccinated populations, why those vaccinated are becoming asymptomatic carriers for the disease, and why “the number of reported pertussis cases have been steadily increasing since the 1980s.” Other news sources have reported that the pertussis bacteria is becoming resistant to the vaccine and that B. parapertussis might actually be to blame for some of the outbreaks. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, even after five doses of Dtap a person’s chance of acquiring pertussis increases by 42% each year.
So, a vaccine gives us temporary (if any) immunity, with junk ingredients, and a chance of adverse reactions like eczema, bronchitis, respiratory infections, encephalopathy, cough (which I find ironic), and SIDS. No thanks. There are better way to protect ourselves and our children from pertussis.
Polio is scary. False…
Unless you actually had polio. Believe it or not, polio is asymptomatic in 95% of people who actually get it; and prior to polio vaccine licensure, anything with paralysis lasting longer than 24 hours would have yielded a polio diagnosis. Aseptic and viral meningitis, Coxsackie virus, hand foot mouth, transverse myelitis, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, Syphilis, DDT, arsenic, and lead poisoning etc. were all diagnosed as polio prior to the vaccine. Seriously, you could play dead and get a polio diagnosis.
After vaccine licensure, diagnostic criteria changed to make the vaccine look more effective. The 220, 365 cases of non-paralytic polio that occurred between 1960 and 1992 were now labeled “aseptic meningitis.” This is just one of many examples. Not to mention that the only cases of polio recorded between 1973 and 2000 were caused by the vaccine. So we should all ask ourselves, did our dear friend, neighbor, or relative with polio actually have polio? If they did have polio, was it caused by the vaccine? Are they in a wheel-chair? If so, was it due to the barbaric methods used by the medical profession to treat polio? While we’re at it, does our dear friend, neighbor, or relative have cancer? If so, was it caused by the polio vaccine?
True/false aside, here are some really good reasons to leave the “anti-vaccination movement:”
Double-blind, inert/saline placebo-controlled clinical trials show vaccines are safe. None have been done to date.
Studies show that vaccinated children are healthier than unvaccinated children. No large-scale study in the United States has been done to date.
Studies show vaccines do not have adverse reactions. Currently, all vaccines have possible adverse reactions.
Studies show vaccines do not cause any health conditions, including the ones they’re designed to prevent. All vaccines can and have caused the very diseases they’re designed to prevent.
Studies show that herd immunity applies to vaccinations. It has been presumed that herd immunity applies to vaccines.
Studies show vaccines actually prevent disease. Currently, not a single study to date has proven this. This hypothesis is dependent upon the assumption that every single person would have gotten the disease if they weren’t vaccinated and that vaccinations are the only way to prevent disease.
Vaccines gives lifetime immunity. Currently, not a single vaccine offers lifetime immunity.
And my favorite…science proves vaccines do a better job at preventing disease than my God-given immune system. If you don’t believe in God, “studies show biology missed something when it gave every man and animal on the planet an immune system.”
Clearly, I’m not taking a journey any time soon. Vaccines or not, I hope we can be friends. I’ve found this red dress I’m just dying to try on.
Our son is almost 13 months, and we just transferred to a new pediatrician. All the pediatric clinics around us scare people to take vaccines. Since this was our 3rd clinic transfer (our last doctor just retired and he was the only flexible doctor who respected our decision to not vaccinate – and by respect, I mean he never asked us about it since our first visit LOL), I just caved today. My husband and I are afraid of whooping cough or having our son contract mumps (there is an outbreak around us); and so I agreed to have our son vaccinated with the MMR, HepA, Varicella, and Pedirax shots today. I really wish I didn’t get him vaccinated though….it sucks not having doctors around that truly listen to the patients concerns. 😥 #allworriednow #ifeelwimpy
So, I pretty much love you! Can we be friends 😍
Of course. 🙂
Dear Megan,
I am a mom of 3 boys, the first 2 boys are vaccinated according to my own schedule in order to prevent multiple shots per one visit. When I gave birth to a 3rd boy I started to do my own research and have realized I made a mistake. While I’m thankful for all the articles you’ve wrote or posted, I have to tell you that you should really be more gentle and compassionate while writing them. After reading some of your posts I started to panic and think that I’m a bad mother and I have done such a bad decision. I see same comments from other parents. The feeling of guilt was never leaving me for several weeks. My 2 years old has eczema, it did not start right away after the vaccine he received. And usually dairy products were causing eczema condition getting worse. But in my mind I have already pictured myself being a monster mom who let this happen to my precious boy. In order to find other way to treat his eczema i contacted a very knowledgeable naturopath. Yes, she confirmed that I made a good decision not to vaccinate a 3rd boy, but she said to stop feeling guilty as there is no 100% answer if vaccine has caused his eczema, since my mom has asthma and my husband was allergic to eggs when small. Yes, vaccines are not good, but not ALL the health problems are the results of vaccination. Radiation, GMO, polluted air and water, luck of exercise……You cannot blame only vaccines for every little thing. I’m not going to live my life in fear, that my kids will have autism, cancer, asthma, all possible disorders because of the wrong decision I made. I’m sure you and me and many other moms want only the best for our kids. Yes what’s done is done. Praise God my boys are healthy and eczema is improving and almost gone. Please be more sensitive!
Hi Maria- my three children have eczema, and none of them were vaccinated. So don’t stress yourself out on what is out of your control, but keep congratulating yourself on waking up to the consequences of a pharmaceutical lifestyle, when most prefer to bury their heads in the sand 🙂
Thank you so much! You made my day! That’s exactly what I wanted to hear. I have changed a lot the lifestyle of our family. Thanks to people like Megan I have learned a lot. But the process of “waking up to the consequences of a pharmaceutical lifestyle” was painful, that’s why the words of support make a huge difference!
AMEN!!!-“I’m not going to live my life in fear.” I JUST LOVED THIS! YOU Go Maria! Plus our babies were born for such times as this. and God is always always good! and he gives us mamas authority to do what is best for our babies <3 I pray many blessing and wisdom for all of us mamas!
Loved this post as a nursing student entering the hospital in just a month and a half as a registered nurse we as nurses never are taught what is in vaccines and the problems they can cause all we hear is what good they do. But from the view of someone in the hospital I can guarantee you that we don’t all agree on vaccinating our kids but we are required by our facility to encourage patients to get vaccinated and we can’t do otherwise.
I agree, vaccines are scary, but so is not doing them. I do wish we could cut them back to a few essential ones and not the 50+ that get pumped in with 2 needles (I’m exaggerating a little). I have three children spanning 18 years so I have seen a LOT of changes over the years. My oldest actually got a live polio vaccine, then had to get the other kind a few years later. My middle son use to get fevers over 104 degrees with all of his baby shots. The whole thing scares me. But, how do you all get around the state laws for daycares and schools? We can’t all stay home. We can’t all homeschool. We want women to succeed in business, medicine, education, etc. how do we do it all? If we could push for less vaccines instead of none I think there would be more support and possibly regulation changes. But pushing for no vaccines is just too extreme, and too scary for this mother. I do worry about measles, mumps and rubella. I don’t want my babies to suffer from something we can essentially prevent. And if it’s not permanent, then we get boosters.
Katrina, as of right now, April 2017, every state (besides CA) offers waivers that are not for medical reasons. Some states offer religious waivers, some personal, some both. Kids can go to school and not be vaccinated. They just want you to think that they can’t attend unless they don’t have shots. If you prefer a delayed schedule I encourage you to look into your states laws on vaccine exemption 🙂
Mississippi and West Virginia have only a medical vaccine waiver thus making it 3 states.
MS only has a medical waiver. There is no religious or philosophical waiver here.
While it may seem like children get more vaccinations now than in the past, children today actually receive far fewer antigens in the shots, and they are even less taxing on the immune system than in the past (which is obviously minimal). The number of needle sticks is irrelevant.
Here:
“For one thing, slow vaxxing is not actually old-fashioned. The old-fashioned way to vaccinate was quite the opposite: We used to wallop a child with an enormous dose of antigens all at once. The smallpox vaccine that Trump likely received as an infant required his immune system to respond to 200 different proteins. Today the entire compliment of child vaccines contains just 160 proteins. Children do receive 10 times more shots today than they did a century ago, but the number of needle sticks is irrelevant—it’s the size of the immune challenge that matters. Of course, you need some scientific literacy to understand this difference.
Furthermore, Trump’s claim that we “pump children with so much at a very young age” reflects a widely held concern that the current vaccine schedule can overwhelm a child’s immune system. This is nonsense. Yes, a vaccine exposes a child to a very small amount of a virus. Conservative estimates suggest that the infant immune system could likely respond to more than 10,000 vaccines in a single doctor’s visit. Put differently, vaccines occupy about 0.1 percent of an infant’s immune capacity. A baby encounters more microbes on its trip through the birth canal than from vaccines.”
Hey, Sabrina, when words like “nonsense” are used, the writer is usually a Big Pharma astroturfer. But you might be interested to learn something anyway:
The antigens aren’t the main problem; it’s the adjuvants like aluminum (neurotoxin), glyphosate (yes, same as on GMO foods), and polysorbate, to name a few.
Each dose of antigen – and there are 49 now before age 6 – brings with it 150-200mcg of aluminum, for example, in each dose – even when several antigens are combined in one shot. OK… and the US FDA states clearly that anything over 5 mcg of aluminum per kg of body weight is dangerous.
So you do the math. And I’ll use your phrase to close: “Of course, you’d need some type of scientific literacy for that.”
Not to mention the DNA fragments that are now suspected of harming Neuro development.
Just a little reading for you about Aluminium I think you will find its fine
https://vaxplanations.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/is-the-aluminium-in-vaccines-a-dangerous-amount-is-it-toxic/
And it has links as well to back up its points.
Science, its good
No, nope and no way.
1. You are omitting that vaccines bypass the gut and go directly into the bloodstream, bypassing innate means of immune system protection. Arguing that a newborn has greater exposure to pathogens in the birth canal is not the same
2. You seem to think that arguing adverse affects via vaccines is directly proportional to the amount of virus (attenuated or otherwise) is the issue. It is the other ingredients in the cocktail, like preservatives, stabilizers, carriers, that aggravate the immune response in a newborn or infant, creating health problems.
I am 68 and was never vaxxed and am still alive anyone one my age or older was never vaxxed. My 6 siblings were never vaxxed. We all had the childhood diseases and they actually build a strong immune system and this is one way to prevent cancer as the immune system is there major killer. 70% of the immune system is in the gut so gut problems are serious. A baby’s immune system develops slowly for a reason. Before age 3 it’s detox systems are not up and running, like the liver, kidneys. When I was pregnant you were not supposed to take anything that could harm the fetus. I never even took an asprin and now they are forcing pregnant nurses to take a flu shot loaded w mercury which goes straight to the ftus. You canot convince me that giving a vaccine loaded w toxins helps improved health. Polysorbate 80 allows these neurotoxins to enter the blood brain barrier, hence all the neuro diseases. These so call antibodies they generate are manufactured and you will never encounter these in nature. I fear for the coming generation. As for home schooling, I went to a parents daycare. Why can’t we do that w groups of mothers, retired teachers, grandparents, student volunteers, thereby by passing the school system. I breast fed my son for 20 months, had a 20 hour home birth ro a 9 lb 14 baby boy. OUCHHe I think he may have had the chicken pox but it was so mild I couldn’t tell. Vaxs have almost quadrupled since he was born. OUCH. We don’t need to give DayOne infants toxic vaccines and have the highest DAY ONE Infant mortality rate in the developed world COMBINED. Infectious disease we cleared up by the late 1940’s due to sanitation, clean water, nutrition. If there could be a study done of all the untaxed children vs vaxxed children it would prove a great dealt that takes money. I would not van against non legal diseases.
Well said Laura. I am an unvaxxed 38 yr old and I had measels and a case of mild chicken pox. I’ve never had mumps, rubella or pertussis, however I know people who have been vaccinated and had pertussis twice, both my friend and her daughter, and the 1st thing she did was rant “you unvaccinated people are spreading it.” I interjected and just let her know that simply was irrational and untrue, how can someone spread a disease they don’t even have?
My mum didn’t vaccinate my sister or me. I have never been sick seriously and nursed three of my kids through chicken pox but never had it, my doctor say’s I’m one of 5% who are naturally immune. I remember rubbing against my sister Willow Sunshine when she had them to get out of school but no it didn’t work
Mu son is 10. He hasn’t been vaccinated. I know lots of people who don’t vaccinate.
Thank you so much for sharing ❤️Keep sharing facts xx
My 6 month old daughter was partially vaccinated for pertussis. She was hospitalized with pertussis at 6 months. So scary. She contracted pertussis from her fully vaccinated 17 year old sister. The head dr at children’s could not give me an answer to the reason my baby contracted pertussis from her FULLY vaccinated sister. ..he just said, we are still in the research stage and are cAoming to a conclusion that boosters are needed. I did not vaccinate my last two children because of how many vaccines they want to administer. So many more than when my 17 year old was born. I decided to get my 6 month old vaccinated for pertussis because there was an outbreak in an Amish community near us. I wish I had never decided to vaccinate. Dr’s want me to trust them that what they are injecting in my baby is safe….while they are still in the research stage. No thanks.
Just stop it! You couldn’t be more wrong with your “facts” and endangering lives of children with your message of anti-vaccination. I’m a scientist who has studied this subject for 30 years and can conclusively tell you that vaccines are essential. All the readers on this website, please listen to doctors and scientists rather than stay at home moms and idiot celebrities that know nothing about the facts.
It’s ok to admit you do not know everything. It might hurt a bit but it’s ok. We already know you do not. Get over it.
This stay at home mom has given real facts and true logic. You just sound like a bully – dogma much!?
Vaccines are essential for what? Not for good health. I have two unvaccinated daughters who enjoy sensational health as proof of that. Sadly, their brother was vaccinated and he had a serious reaction with each round of shots. His sisters will remain unmedicated. I’m not about to give them prophylactic drugs that have known negative side effects. They also decline vaccinations for themselves. As teenagers just as they are able to consent to vaccines independently of their parents they are equally able to decline vaccines.
Boris, I can tell by the way you talk that your not an educated scientist! You teach with compassion not anger.
More fear mongering, doctors and scientist knows best craps! Obviously you are poor at studying things. You don’t debate well either. Where are all your facts? But this is normal coming from doctors and scientists. We are just supposed to believe whatever you say and not use our brain cells. I am sorry but you are not the only person that can make an educated decision. Just because you are a doctor or scientist doesn’t make you smarter.
We listen to the doctors that do their own research. There is no true scientific evidence that vaccines work and are safe , so I don’t know what you have been studying for 30 years ?
Thank you for being a voice of reason, Boris! I wonder if antivax parents would be able to look into other parent’s eyes if their unvaccinated child was the reason their newborn died. The person who understands value of vaccines is a doctor who worked in remote places of Africa where parents would do anything to protect their children with vaccines. Blaming companies that they make money on vaccines is like blaming yourself for getting paid for work you do.
I’m confused about the statement…
“vaccine removed from the market because it caused brain damage in children (i.e. autism & DPT),”. Can you please clarify which vaccine was removed from the market? Thank you.
Tripedia – The DPT vaccine was replaced with DTaP. Autism (and SIDS) are listed on page 11 of the insert.
I really enjoyed this blog! I am a registered nurse with a masters in nursing and a masters in healthcare administration ( MSN / MHA). I have to agree that nurses do not receive much education on vaccines besides how to administer them and tactics to get everyone to want them. It made me feel like a car salesperson promoting the most expensive car in order to increase sales an left an awful taste in my mouth. I also have a personal interest in this as I am a survivor of Guillian Barre Syndrome which I contracted from a Tetanus vaccination when I was 18. I was paralyzed from my neck down with some facial impairment. It took almost 2 months in a nursing home and over a year to recover. I now have Ankylosing Spondylitis which my doctors believes occurred at an earlier age due to my past medical History with GBS. I work in a nursing home that thankfully does not force me to be vaccinated (because any vaccine can cause a relapse) but I run the risk of being mandated to receive vaccines if certain organizations have their way. As the supervisor I am “encouraged” to vaccinate as many residents in my building as I can…. I can see both sides of The issue. I know what damage vaccines can do, but I also have seen the flu wreck havoc on a unit causing multiple deaths for those with weakened immune systems. When I discuss vaccines with residents I always discuss the positives and the negatives of vaccination, I believe that people should have the whole story to be well informed to make a desicion on whether to vaccinate or not, not just the “party line”. What we need is a hard look at the current vaccines and to develop safer vaccines with less side effects. As of right now I will remain a supporter of the anti vaccine movement.
The flu vaccine does not statistically work. It also still has thimerisol in it to boot! Older people especially, are prone to damage & accelerated dementia from that vaccine. If they [and all of us] all got blood tests for Vit/Mineral deficiencies & replenished accordingly, MANY wouldn’t sick, or at least not detrimentally sick. Elevating Vit-D levels alone Probably work better then any damn flu shot, add high dose liposomal Vit-C, (watch on YouTube, Dr. Suzanne Humphries lecture on Vit-C) or preferably intravenous Vit-C, a good multi-strain pro-biotic, eating fermented foods, selenium, magnesium, & N-Acytyl-L-Cysteine to raise levels of Glutathione. Most people would probably never even get a cold or flu. If they did, it would be minimal, short-lived & certainly non-life-threatening.
Of course, you’d probably get fired for recommending any of this! Use it for yourself though, to protect your health & wellness. ☮️ Peace
I couldn’t agree more, Cheryl.
Excellent advise Cheryl!lynne
Thiomersal was removed from UK vaccines between 2003 and 2005, and is no longer found in any of the childhood or adult vaccines routinely used in the UK. Before 2005, thiomersal was present in diphtheria- and tetanus-containing vaccines, as well as hepatitis B vaccine and some flu vaccines. It was not used in the MMR vaccine, the Hib vaccine, the MenC vaccine, the oral polio vaccine or the BCG vaccine. Since 2005, thiomersal has only been present in non-routine vaccines such as hepatitis B, and occasionally in some of the annual inactivated flu vaccines. Thiomersal was present in the Swine Flu (H1N1) vaccine Pandemrix, used in the 2009-10 and 2010-11 flu seasons in the UK. However, it is not present in any of the annual flu vaccines currently in use in the UK.
Yes- there is a parental rights organization http://www.parentalrights.org/ 🙂
Also, how do you deal with the required vaccines to enter some countries? An what is a good resource on how to naturally protect yourself from pertussis.
while this does not deal with prevention, it does deal with treatment of pertussis. you will also find many other great uses for vitamin c in the article.
http://drsuzanne.net/dr-suzanne-humphries-oral-intravenous-vitamin-c/
4 of my unvaccinated children had pertusses last year.
Treatment consisted of high dosesses of Vit C every two hours, a good pro-biotic every alternating hour, and good old hourly steaming. My then two week old breastfed son did not get it.
I only discovered this vit C treatment after two weeks of illness, and when we started this treatment, recovery was rapid. Coughing stopped almost immediately, but if we left off the steaming, the coughing came back. It was not a walk in the park, but also not that terrible.
No country requires you to vaccinate to enter, they may suggest, but that’s it.
Some countries do require vaccines.
i love this! excellent post! i have 4 kids and been mom for over 10 years now…i wavered greatly with vaccines. my husband was so for them…so it was quite a tense subject for us. though over 10 years ago i feel it was a little harder to “find” all the info we have such access to now with social media and the documentaries being created….so i followed dr. sears and did pick and choose some vaccines (though i look back now and still feel it was a fear based decision that “what if they get that”…) i delayed; spread them out; chose not to get certain ones….thankfully our doctor is very parental choice so he never pushed them one bit. now by my 4th child she also has had some but really just handful and not the full doses of any. no boosters at 2 or 4 yrs….and i intend to not give them anymore from here on out! i’ve grown for sure in my confidence that this is what is best….and i would do it differently if i could start over for sure! i’m thankful we had no horrific reactions or any serious damage from my decisions back then. we do have few allergies and work hard on gut health now to restore immunity that may be weaker and more susceptible to illnesses in winter months for sure! but the more reactions from these vaccines the more my heart breaks wanting everyone to stop doing this to our children! eventually we are going to have so many within our population that need chronic care and unable to function in society independently…and this is sad when this is avoidable! thank you for this!
Oh good god. You really think doctors are so stupid they can’t tell the difference between polio and syphilis?
Apparently, doctors have forgotten how to diagnose common childhood illnesses. I’ve had to inform two mothers that their doctor was wrong and their children had measles. One doctor had put a baby on thrush medication – he didn’t recognise the tell tale koplic spots and failed to recognise that fever indicated a virus. One doctor felt as the child was vaccinated the illness couldn’t be measles. So, if they are missing other diseases I”m not surprised.
Really appreciated your blog, both the information and the tone. My son sent it to me, as he knows my background and interest in this topic. I have added it as a link on my Healthy Living blog (written in 2012) I hope this is OK with you.
http://cogwebcast.com/healthy-living/vaccination-what-does-the-bible-say/
Hi Carolanne,
So glad you liked my post! 😉
Totally okay to link.
~Megan
I just came across your blog & find many of your posts interesting. However, about vaccines, you only stated “studies show”. Can you possibly post what studies or where to find them. Like you, I like researching before jumping on any bandwagon. Like you, I DID NOT throw out my hyland’s because there was no basis. So if you can kindly state your sources of study cases, I’d really appreciate it. Thank you 😊
Hi Jewels, I can’t hyperlink “studies” to one word. I have written extensively about vaccines and included citations there however. If you use the search bar at the top, you can type in “vaccines” and the list will come up. 😉 Thanks for reading!
Ok so I tried dong the search thing and I’ve read 4 of your articles (all great btw) and I’m still not seeing where u list any of the sources. If you say studies show or studies say or research shows or even state something as a fact can u please just list your source so the rest of us can know where the info comes from and refer to the actual studies when we need to? I get u said u can’t link a study to a word but u can list your sources at the end of your articles and cite them via superscript throughout. Thank you. And again, great articles. I love all your points. Just want to be able to prove they are valid like I know they are.
All of my sources are hyperlinked in the posts in coral font. If something says “studies show” I can’t link more than one article to a word, nor can I or should I be expected to do everyone’s research for them, nor would my post be readable or original if it were one big giant hyperlink. I do not list the sources at the end of my articles because they are very long already, would mess up the functionality of my site, would take far too much time, and this is a blog … not a research paper. 😉 Someday when I have more time and a few virtual assistants, I can assign them these tasks but in the meantime, I write opinion pieces and I include as many sources as is feasible for me to do within the hyperlinks of my posts.
Bests Megan 🙂
Do you not like to research for yourself??
Since it seems like it is Megan’s desire to inform and arm people with solid arguments and information it’s reasonable to ask for all of the information. Having the sources actually makes it possible for people to fact check and do research for themselves. If someone has already found the information why would they want everyone else to go and reinvent the wheel so to speak by doing all the same legwork all over again? It doesn’t help for us all to be doing all the same research all the time. The movement for truth will progress further if we can all continually move forward and that, in part, is made possible by having the sources to our facts.
Sources are listed. Hyperlinked. Coral font. Click on it … it takes you to the article. Statements that I don’t feel need sources but that you think do, can be researched by you. You shouldn’t expect someone to write or source the way you want them to so that you don’t have to do the work. Everybody needs to do their own research just like in school when you would ask your teacher for the meaning of a word and she made you go to the dictionary and look it up. There’s value in that. However, I do see the value in references too. That’s why I include as many as I can. I’ve been studying this subject for 9 years so when I write a post, a lot of what I write is synthesized from lectures, books, classroom hours, studies, and experience etc. I can’t always cite that.
I appreciate your viewpoint though.
Respectfully,
Megan
You, with these comment responses, are transferring the burden of proof to someone other than the person who printed an article with true and false “fact” statements. You said you are a lawyer but I am forced to wonder about your training after you presented “facts” in your article that you are declining to support with documentation. You know that would never stand up in court and any case you presented with this kind of evidence (along with the refusal to present sources) would be immediately dismissed. And dismissing your case is what I’m going to do, as a result of your defensive nature and quick transfer of responsibility to your reader.
Unless you actually had polio. Believe it or not, polio is asymptomatic in 95% of people who actually get it; and prior to polio vaccine licensure, anything with paralysis lasting longer than 24 hours would have yielded a polio diagnosis. Aseptic and viral meningitis, Coxsackie virus, hand foot mouth, transverse myelitis, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, Syphilis, DDT, arsenic, and lead poisoning etc. were all diagnosed as polio prior to the vaccine. Seriously, you could play dead and get a polio diagnosis.
Seriously? My grandmother told stories of at least 1/4 of the children in having polio in the early 50’s in her town, if those, 1/2 died. People who lived through the Polio scare remember the schools smelling like bleach. There was no mistaking the symptoms, and the outcome.
That being said, answer this one question.
How do vaccines work?
My mother and her 3 siblings were school aged in the 50’s and not one of them knew anyone who had polio let alone died from it.
To answer your question….they don’t.
As Megan pointed out, many things can mimic a polio diagnosis, and without specimen testing to determine whether or not it was a poliovirus, we will never know. It seems unlikely that testing for the presence of the poliovirus would have been widespread in the 1950’s. For example, there is a flavivirus which causes tick borne encephalitis and louping ill and this can cause paralysis and symptoms similar to polio. Currently there is an enterovirus which is causing paralysis around the world.
What town was this?
I don’t normally comment but I will say this – It’s laughable how our medical systems ( and I’m including Canada in this ) is always reactive vs. proactive EXCEPT in the case of pharmaceuticals, in particular vaccinations. In any other case, whether you take your child to a doctor with a rash, a fever, you have lower back pain, extreme sinus infections etc – you will most likely be told to go home and rest, and come back if the symptoms worsen or be prescribed antibiotics (just in case its bacterial). In those cases, symptoms are treated, and again, reactive medicine.
Hi Megan. Below is the comment i left on Dani´s blog. It’s very appropiate that she wears a sexy red dress: It’s exactly how the Devil would look if he wanted to seduce us as a female.
Let’s keep speaking up, folks. We need to start shouting from the rooftops.
“Very skilfull, subtle, articulated and carefully elaborated piece of VACCINE PROPAGANDA, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL MANIPULATION and FEARMONGERING. You have no shame or conscience. You are truly despicable. But surely Big Pharma owes you big time. You’ve done for them the best job i’ve seen until now.”
You are amazing. Thank you for everything you do!
Thanks for reading, for the comment, and encouragement! <3
Thank-you for taking a stand. My healthy 5-month old died hours after a DPT vaccine. All other reasons pale beside that…
I am so very sorry for your loss. <3