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the emergeny room after receiving the vaccines. From the heart of one mother date to force vaccines, and CNN's as-
MMR vaccine (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ to another. sessment that non-vaccinators are as
pmc/articles/PMC3236196/?tool=pmce Christine Colebeck dangerous as drunk drivers, and recent
ntrezhttp://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecom- Canada legislation in several states to rescind
pensation/statisticsreport.pdfhttp:// philosophical exemptions to vaccines,
journal.cpha.ca/index.php/cjph/article/ MEASLES HYSTERIA my takeaway is that this is a coordi-
view/2936). What is going on regarding measles nated effort to scare the public, defend
Parents need to stop pointing fin- is truly frightening and clearly well- a wrongheaded public policy statement,
gers at other parents and work together, coordinated. It is clear that the rate of and take away our rights.
for the greater good, for the good of non-vaccination has reached such a level There are simply too many folks
our children. Parents everywhere need that the powers that be will do anything doing their research and opting out,
to ask questions and demand safer and to strip us of our rights, spread fear, and and health authorities have lost control.
more effective vaccines for our children. yes, lie, or at the very least withhold the They have lost control because too many
Pharmaceutical companies should be truth. families have seen first-hand the damage
given a clear message that we want The last I looked there were about vaccines can wreak.
them to put more money and research fourteen hundred news stories on In addition, we now understand
into the existing, basic vaccines, which Google related to a measles outbreak that the premise upon which vaccines
are presently failing to protect our chil- affecting seventy people. That is it, just originally were built is flawed: anti-
dren, instead of rushing to develop and seventy people. To put this in context, bodies (the reason we vaccinate) do not
license dozens of new, untested vaccines there are about one million kids in this mean a person is immune. A person
for non-life-threatening illness. Parents country with autism, but that does not can be immune and have no antibodies
everywhere need to demand that the seem to be an emergency. And roughly or conversely have antibodies but not
manufacturers of vaccines be held liable 18-20 percent of all children have learn- be immune. Moreover, the promise of
and accountable, to ensure the quality of ing disabilities or developmental delays. life-long vaccine-induced immunity was
the products they manufacture. Canada Health authorities have been con- empty: we now know that vaccines wear
needs to create a vaccine injury com- spicuously quiet about where the out- off, often much faster than admitted and
pensation program for the thousands of break began, perhaps because it might that the only true immunity is natural
children killed and injured by vaccines. have started with a vaccinated person infection. These unfortunate truths that
Pharmaceutical companies should be who transmitted it to others—the sci- stand in the way of the vaccine market
monitored by an unbiased committee, ence is clear, vaccinated folks can and going from twenty-seven billion dollars
or council of watchdogs, to ensure they do transmit disease, though this is an in 2012 to a forecast one hundred billion
are putting the health and safety of our uncomfortable truth. What we do know dollars by 2020.
children before profits. Our children is that two of the original five workers There is another major issue, which
deserve to be protected! Our children who got measles were fully vaccinated; is that vaccines damage the immune
deserve better! status of the others was not known last system, making it more vulnerable to
Measles has not killed a child in I looked. What is also clear is that origi- future challenges. Research in the past
over a decade in North America but vac- nal reports said most folks who got the couple of years has demonstrated that
cines have killed and injured thousands. measles were unvaccinated but recent getting the flu vaccine makes one more
That is a painful fact I live with. Rather reports say that some of the folks who vulnerable to flu. Our understanding of
than “anti-vaccine,” I am pro-health got it were unvaccinated, which implies the immune system is vastly improved
and pro-safety of my children and your that most were vaccinated. from the time when vaccines were
children. When we combine this information originally conceived. It is time medical
Do your research and demand better with Fox News' call for a federal man- authorities admitted this fact that

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