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Anti-Vaxers, Are You Baby Killers?

3/31/2015

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WOULD you kill a baby today? Would you put him through horrific pain? Would you take away his oxygen and let him suffocate to death?

Claire Harvey says that if you choose not to vaccinate your children you are doing all of those things, and are even personally responsible for the death of Riley Hughes. 

Really?!?!

I can not imagine the agony of losing a child. My heart breaks for those parents, the ones that lost Riley and the ones that lost the other 12 mentioned in the article. My heart also breaks for Baby Zane (pictured above) and for his parents. Baby Zane died from the DTaP vaccine (along with Prevnar)...the very vaccine that Claire demands everyone get because she believes it would have prevented Riley's death. I can not think of anything worse than watching my children suffer and then die...But did I really murder them?

According to this article,  "The Department of Health says it does not know how the child (Riley Hughes) contracted the respiratory disease, also known as pertussis. Whooping cough is part of the routine vaccination schedule for babies at two months, four months and six months of age." 


In order for it to be the fault of a parent for not vaccinating their child, the child affected would have to be exposed to pertussis from another unvaccinated person.  However, the evidence that there was another unvaccinated person in direct contact with him seems to be non-existent.  Since 92% of his surrounding population is fully vaccinated, it’s far more likely that Riley came in contact with someone who recently received the DTaP vaccine.  It is a well-known fact that pertussis can be spread from anyone who has been recently vaccinated.

Another issue I have with Claire’s article is that she emphatically states that vaccines do not cause autism.  Let’s examine this briefly.  Here is a portion of the MMR package insert written by the manufacturer, disclosing a small portion of potential side effects of the vaccine:
Nervous System
Encephalitis; encephalopathy; measles inclusion body encephalitis (MIBE) (see CONTRAINDICATIONS); subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE); Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS); acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM); transverse myelitis; febrile convulsions; afebrile convulsions or seizures; ataxia; polyneuritis; polyneuropathy; ocular palsies; paresthesia.  


While these known and admitted side-effects do not directly disclose “autism”, a few of them are, by definition, symptoms of autism.  For example, encephalopathy, includes irritability, twitching, seizures, headaches, mental impairments, poor feeding, confusion, personality changes, and can lead to coma/death depending on the severity of the reaction.  About 1/3 of the autistic also have seizure disorders with symptoms like I just listed.  A rose by any other name is still a rose.  Symptoms of autism under the guise of any other name are still symptoms of autism. Vaccines are, without a doubt, associated with autism.

Is there enormous weight of scientific evidence that vaccines eradicated diseases? How about Polio? It did not.  Tetanus or Diptheria? Nope.  Cholera? Again, no.  The United States actually has the HIGHEST infant mortality rates in wealthy countries and one of the most stringent vaccine programs. Compare that to Japan, with one the most relaxed vaccination schedules and the lowest infant mortality. 

So why DO people opt out of vaccinations? Is it true as Claire declares, that it is because we are selfish, ignorant, and don't care about anyone else? In America, the most common groups of people to refuse vaccinations are the most educated, so there goes the ignorant theory. As far as selfish and not caring about anyone else...did we answer this in a poll I missed out on taking? Probably not. Through our quest to be most educated about the subject we do not believe that vaccinating our children will protect them, or anyone else's. Nor do we believe that by everyone else vaccinating that ours are protected by errant "herd immunity".  In fact, most parents that I know that opt out of vaccines as a means to protect our children and because of the opposition it may pose to our faiths (like Christianity), seek to inform as many other parents as possible so that they can avoid grief of the parents of 493,323 people are now suffering since 1990 (Wow, this doesn't even include the Cutter Incident that infected tens of thousands!). 


I have to agree with one thing she said, but not about anti-vaxers. I have been accused of going too far by likening forced vaccination to terrorism. In order to be a terrorist, you need to force a substance on a group of people against their will that could cause injury and death. People that do not vaccinate are not the ones spreading disease. You actually have to have it to spread it. My children are never sick, they have never had a disease, and they have never spread one. Terrorism is an act of will. If some child contracted whooping cough from his vaccine and spread it to others I would not accuse him or his parents of being terrorists. Who do I think are the terrorists? The ones who seek to take away the rights of parents and individuals to refuse an injection of toxins, bacterias, and viruses against our will, our religious objections, or our beliefs about what we have studied regarding vaccine safety and efficacy regardless of the popularity of the information are the terrorists. Anyone who wants to punish me, jail me, fine me for not vaccinating and then force me to allow the injection of aluminum, polysorbate 80, formaldehyde, aborted fetal tissue, various animal DNA, thimerosal, and a host of other toxins that has been proven to cause disabilities and death to others is a terrorist. 

In the years following the study linking MMR to bowel disease (the one Claire blames the "quack doctor" for starting the concerns) it has been confirmed by studies done around the world that one of the conditions associated with autism is bowel injury linked to vaccines. In addition, had Dr. Wakefield's study been nothing but lies he would have gone to jail. Here he is, brilliantly discussing the issue of vaccines if you want to her him first hand.

What about the immunocompromised that can not be vaccinated, such as those with leukemia? Leukemia usually shows up after the age of 1 and peaks from 2-5, after children have had all of their vaccines if they so desired. It seems more likely that the carcinogens contained in the vaccines (formaldehyde, polysorbate 80, etc.) would be causing cancer than an unvaccinated child suffering from cancer being at risk of exposure to an unvaccinated person with a disease. 

Who exactly is it that we are trying to protect when we are driving campaigns that would eliminate children from playing with other children if they had not been vaccinated? Most children old enough to play with other children have already been vaccinated which should give them immunity if vaccines actually provide it. Even the vaccinated get ill, and in my own observation (and this published study) do so far more often than unvaccinated children. Would it be appropriate for all of the parents to bring our children's medical record history to playdates for parents to pass around and review before deciding which children they can interact with? No! The truth is that when anyone else's child gets their live Flu Shots and boosters they shed the live viruses, they are putting every child at risk, vaccinated and unvaccinated - because the vaccinated still contract the diseases for which they were vaccinated for. Even the CDC acknowledges vaccine shedding.

Claire Harvey, if you are so certain that vaccines are right and safe I want to challenge you. I suppose that you side and agree with vaccine zealots like Paul Offit who said that newborns could withstand 10,000 vaccines at one time. I challenged him in a blog article a while back and hopefully someday he and a dozen colleagues, and now you, will take this challenge: Go on live national television (the news, any one of our celebrity doctor shows in America, 20/20, etc) and get 10,000 vaccines injected in the same sitting. If you survive it, I want you to show us with regular health screenings over a year or two that you do not have brain damage, bowel or bleeding disorders, diabetes, Guillaine-Barre syndrome, debilitating arthritis, cancer, or any other number of life-altering side-effects. If you did and remained healthy, that would probably go a long way to convince the anti-vaxers that they were wrong all this time.   

This is our future. If there is a grain of truth to the claims of vaccine damage our future society is in dire trouble. It is estimated that if we continue on this path, by 2025 half of all United States children will be autistic. Who will run the government? Who will serve the military? Who will take care of them as they age if the other half of society doesn't go into nursing and behavioral care? The life-span of the conditions that result in other reactions are often shorter and come with disability. These often life-long conditions are far more threatening than a week long rash or 3 days of diarrhea or a cough, which all come with life-long immunity. If we are talking about protecting our society we might want to stop and think about what it will look like if we continue on this path, which has hundreds more vaccines in the pipeline that will also come with mandates.



So please, in honor of baby Zane, please, think twice before you vaccinate. Educate, and don't have the same regret his parents do.

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18 Comments
Tinamrdh
3/31/2015 06:39:13 am

Thank you for this comprehensive well researched article and for showing the "other side" of vaccination. Way to go!

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Courtney
3/31/2015 11:15:50 am

Thanks for the support!

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Kate
3/31/2015 10:32:19 am

Amen, sister.

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Courtney
3/31/2015 11:16:27 am

:)

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Tiffany link
3/31/2015 11:04:23 pm

Thank you! Well said and yes we need to support each other from the Pro-Vax attacks that are ridiculous! ♡☆♡☆

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Claire Daves MSN
4/2/2015 12:30:14 am

Are you serious? "It's a well known fact, that you can spread the disease after receiving the vaccine? What sort of hogwash are you espousing here? Your research is so biased and non supported it's off the chain. A little food for thought here, if these vaccines weren't around..........chances are many of our brothers, sisters and nay, even US, might not be around to be discussing this.

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Suzzana Bride
4/2/2015 02:34:57 am

"Besides putting those who receive it at a higher risk of developing pertussis infection, the pertussis vaccine also admittedly lowers immunity. In a recent press release about its study, the FDA spills the beans about how decreased immunity is a common adverse effect of the childhood pertussis vaccine, and that health experts have never really understood why those who are vaccinated against pertussis still contract the disease."

http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm376937.htm

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/044162_pertussis_vaccination_whooping_cough_FDA.html#ixzz3WActzqu9

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Kim
4/2/2015 04:27:44 am

That statement is true! People with autoimmune disorders and leukemia can not be around people that have been recently vaccinated because of shedding. Doctors orders! My dad has leukemia that's how I know. With all due respect, maybe you should do a lot more research into vaccines yourself.

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linda
4/2/2015 08:44:27 am

Nonsence. How do we know it spreads...read CDC, look at any hospital literature for the low immunity for any reason, it says stay away from newly vaccinated for 30 days. Know the facts about the live polio virus. My son was vaccinated and he got whooping cough. His German said not unusual. I was surprised as I thought because I had been told I was vaccinating him so he wouldnt. He did. You might want to read a few of the stories where people got small pox from a newly vaccinated military father. Upon investigation the virus was all over the house, now that is very serious. NY Times, 2007.

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Julie
4/2/2015 08:58:37 pm

Claire you have a huge amount of research to do Try starting with the advice given to the immune compromised by the hospitals, you will find that the people to avoid include newly vaccinated individuals,.. non vaccinated people are not mentioned.. Go also learn what causal correlation is and stop spouting unsubstantiated garbage

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Courtney
4/3/2015 02:20:27 am

Claire, did you read the links showing my statements were all backed by reputable sources (for both vaccine shedding and elimination of diseases)? This link also has information specifically on DTaP spreading by published sources and the CDC. http://unhoodwinked.com/2014/11/11/whooping-cough-pertussis-and-the-vaccine-dtapdtp/

If these vaccines were not here we would have eliminated and reduced the diseases the same way we did for all the diseases (like the ones we did not have vaccines for) such as scarlet fever, bubonic plague, and dengue fever, just to name, a few by hand washing and good hygiene practices. We also reduce death rates by better treatments in some cases.

You should consider reading all of the links in the article if you want to expand to information base. If you do, you will see that vaccines did not eradicate diseases and the results of using them are far greater than the diseases themselves.

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Kel
3/9/2017 01:16:04 pm

I suggest you do some research!!!

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Doctor BS
4/3/2017 10:28:47 am

Claire, this 'known' anecdote you use is likely the appeal to authority of medical peer review. Published medical papers are not evidence and you would be well not to imply medical research on vaccines is anything but PR. No proper placebo trials, funding bias and selection bias do not make for evidence of any kind. Keep your modern medical anecdotes to yourself and have respect for the thousands of kids who are being injured and killed on a daily basis by vaccine programmes whilst dirty water, no sanitation and wars are killing innocent people. It is the so called 'professionals who organise war, and the vaccine smokescreen is an awful side product.

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Sasha
4/2/2015 01:55:13 am

Brilliant article. Couldnt have said it any better myself, aside from adding my personal experience, having two vaccine injured children. Vaccine coinside with every hospitalization my children ever had. My son even regressee into Autism, my daughter developed speech problems. Since ceasing vaccines my children are NEVER sick. When yhey were actively being vaccinated they were either catching the bery thing the were being vaccinated for, like pertussis, chicken pox. My daughter had the most hospitalizations with pneumonia after recieving vaccines, even after the vaccines given at birth she developed a sever infection in her eye. The puss was so bad, they couldnt find a source for the infection, they dialeted her eyes, ran blood work, even did a spinal tap. Her last vaccine was a flu vaccine, she was in childrens hospital for a week with her face swollen beyond recognition. She looked like she had hone three rounds in a professional boxing match, her lips were buster open, eyes swollen shut, high fever, wouldn't eat or drink, it was one of the scariest moments in my life. Even more scary that they couldn't give me a for sure diagnosis. I think they knew what the cause was. They even asked if shed recieved all her vaccines, as a matter of fact doc, that just happended. Turn the other way though, do not think for a second the vaccine put us there. I love when pro-vaxers say it was just a coinsidence. Thats a lot of coinsidences. When else do people use that arguement? If you shot a person in the face and they died would have that just be a coinsidence too? No! Purely anecdotal. Whos to say that person wouldn't have died at that exact moment anyway, right. Thats hogwash.

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Courtney
4/3/2015 04:02:33 am

Thanks for sharing your personal story and for your kind words!

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Annelies link
4/2/2015 07:06:39 am

Claire,s still very young and has yet a lot, a whole lot to learn. Hopefully she will soon.

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Heather T
5/21/2015 01:22:38 pm

Reading these comments made me feel SO empowered. And you, my fellow sisters are strong, fierce truth speakers!! I am so tired of believing and watching people believe, EVERYTHING a doctor says. Moms need to go with their gut more, and mine says DON'T VACCINATE! Jesus was called all sorts of names. It means nothing. I trust many of these "quack doctors"....quack away doc!
Thank you for your boldness and passion to speak up. Love you sister.

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Ann
3/9/2017 12:39:08 pm

I think your article is fantastic but one small thing needs to be clarified. The dtap vaccine doesn't shed. It's a toxoid vaccine . However the people that are vaccinated can be silent carriers of whooping cough thereby unknowingly infecting others which makes it so dangerous for newborns!. The whooping cough vaccine only works suppressing symptoms. Which baby Rileys parents should be livid about . What an upside world we live in !

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