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Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Originally posted by DieBravely
I agree, and just as the thread title says, "largely safe?"
Better be totally safe or else STOP FORCING IT ON CHILDREN DAMN IT!
Right - so you want a totally risk free existance?
Do you drive your kids in a car? Do you let them play? Heck do you let them get out of bed even??
If you do then you are clearly a hypocrite since none of these things are totally safe either.
Measles KILLED about 3 child sufferers in every 1000 in the USA from 1987 - 2000. Fatality rates in the 3rd world or with already compromised patients can reach as high as 30%.
So which would you rather have - a slight chance your child will suffer some discomfort from a vaccine, or an smaller but still very real chance they will DIE from measles??
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
reply to post by riley
Right - so condemning lots of children to death to avoid brain damage to a very small number is OK.
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
reply to post by riley
Right - so condemning lots of children to death to avoid brain damage to a very small number is OK.
In real terms the USA used to have 450 DEATHS and 4000 cases of encephalitis (brain damage) from measles a year before vaccines.
Even if all the 5000 or so cases in the US omnibus autism case are accepted, that's about 250-400 cases a year - or 6-10% the the rate of brain damage that used to be suffered.
So you think a decrease of 90-94% in brain damage isn't actually worthwhile!!
Your point about unroadworthy cars is irrelevant - plenty of people get killed on the roads through the actions of others not therough the fault of them or for any problem in their car. Merely by taking your child in your car anywhere you risk its life - even if you have the best car in the world.
Tuberculosis began a remarkable disappearing act. Killing perhaps 500 out of every 100,000 Europeans in 1845, consumption slowly but continuously sank to 50 per 100,000 by 1950. Curative medicine played little part in that transition. The disappearance began before Koch discovered the tubercle bacillus.
The steady decline of whooping cough between 1930 and 1957 is predictive of a linear exponential decay characteristic of a general and progressive lessening in the volume and spread of infection among the susceptible population. With this pattern well established before 1957, there is no evidence that vaccination played a major role in the decline in incidence and mortality in the trend of events."5
From these figures, we can see that death rates from typhoid decreased by 91 percent from 1910 to 1937 and death rates from diphtheria declined by 90.5 percent during the same time period. The decrease in diphtheria occurred well before the use of vaccination.
a decrease of 90-94% in brain damage
Originally posted by FurvusRexCaeli
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Originally posted by marg6043
reply to post by Niobis
Yes you are right, can you believe I am 51 years old, and just discovered after been tested for antibodies from vaccines due to been a volunteer at the local hospital, that I am missing an entire childhood panel, well I was told by the hospital that did the test that I should get the vaccines as soon as possible, I told them that in 51 years I had no need for them why do I need them now.
In thirty years I have never been in a car accident. Should I therefore drive without wearing my seat belt? After all, I've never needed it before!
Certain vaccinations are needed buy like anything in this country big pharma profits are put over the safety of the citizens.
Their profits depend on the safety of their product. First they have to convince the FDA that's it's safe and efficacious. This is not a quick or easy process. Doesn't matter how many lobbyists you have in Congress; the FDA isn't Congress. Then, if we're talking routine vaccinations, they have to convince the CDC to approve it for their schedule. If you can't convince the CDC it would be better for everyone to have it than not have it, it doesn't go on the recommended list and it languishes in vaccine purgatory. Then they still have to monitor the vaccinated population for years to come, because the trial lawyers will use any excuse to sue "big pharma." If there's even a hint of a correlated adverse reaction, hundreds of cases will be filed at the VICP. Even meritless cases can cost a lot of money, both in lawyers' bills and awards.
Even without all those hoops to jump through, vaccines would not be big money makers anyway. Cholesterol pills are big money. Erection pills are big money. Pain pills are big money. Something you can sell to a well-off adult, and make him or her buy for the rest of their life, that's big money. Giving a shot to a kid, which will prevent a disease for decades or even the rest of his life, is not big money. If they really put profits over safety, they would've buried the vaccines and invented treatments for childhood illnesses, instead.
The news that one of the doctors on an FDA panel assessing whether GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)’s diabetes drug Avandia causes too many heart attacks failed to disclose he was a paid speaker for the company points out a giant hole in the FDA’s regulations
Q: You were once certain that vaccines were the hallmark of good medicine.
A: Yes I was. I helped develop a few vaccines. I won't say which ones. Q: Why not? A: I want to preserve my privacy.
Q: So you think you could have problems if you came out into the open?
A: I believe I could lose my pension.
Q: On what grounds?
A: The grounds don't matter. These people have ways of causing you problems, when you were once part of the Club. I know one or two people who were put under surveillance, who were harassed.
Q: To avoid any confusion, I'd like you to review, once more, the disease problems that vaccines can cause. Which diseases, how that happens.
A: We are basically talking about two potential harmful outcomes. One, the person gets the disease from the vaccine. He gets the disease which the vaccine is supposed to protect him from. Because, some version of the disease is in the vaccine to begin with. Or two, he doesn't get THAT disease, but at some later time, maybe right away, maybe not, he develops another condition which is caused by the vaccine. That condition could be autism, what's called autism, or it could be some other disease like meningitis. He could become mentally disabled.
Q: And yet there are children everywhere who do get vaccines and appear to be healthy.
A: The operative word is "appear." What about all the children who can't focus on their studies? What about the children who have tantrums from time to time? What about the children who are not quite in possession of all their mental faculties? I know there are many causes for these things, but vaccines are one cause. I would not take the chance. I see no reason to take the chance. And frankly, I see no reason to allow the government to have the last word. Government medicine is, from my experience, often a contradiction in terms. You get one or the other, but not both.
Q: You were once certain that vaccines were the hallmark of good medicine.
A: Yes I was. I helped develop a few vaccines. I won't say which ones. Q: Why not? A: I want to preserve my privacy.
Q: So you think you could have problems if you came out into the open?
A: I believe I could lose my pension.
Q: On what grounds?
A: The grounds don't matter. These people have ways of causing you problems, when you were once part of the Club. I know one or two people who were put under surveillance, who were harassed.
Q: To avoid any confusion, I'd like you to review, once more, the disease problems that vaccines can cause. Which diseases, how that happens.
A: We are basically talking about two potential harmful outcomes. One, the person gets the disease from the vaccine. He gets the disease which the vaccine is supposed to protect him from. Because, some version of the disease is in the vaccine to begin with. Or two, he doesn't get THAT disease, but at some later time, maybe right away, maybe not, he develops another condition which is caused by the vaccine. That condition could be autism, what's called autism, or it could be some other disease like meningitis. He could become mentally disabled.
Q: And yet there are children everywhere who do get vaccines and appear to be healthy.
A: The operative word is "appear." What about all the children who can't focus on their studies? What about the children who have tantrums from time to time? What about the children who are not quite in possession of all their mental faculties? I know there are many causes for these things, but vaccines are one cause. I would not take the chance. I see no reason to take the chance. And frankly, I see no reason to allow the government to have the last word. Government medicine is, from my experience, often a contradiction in terms. You get one or the other, but not both.
Government medicine is, from my experience, often a contradiction in terms.
Originally posted by Heartisblack
reply to post by KILL_DOGG
Some of these vaccines aren't necessary, who do you know in the USA or UK, wherever you at. Has polio ? Some of the stuff they vaccinate for are diseases from third world countries. When I got vaccines as a kid, they made me sick as a dog. I don't know about you, but vomiting, running high fevers and getting swollen lumps from where I got the Jab; isn't exactly fun.edit on 25-8-2011 by Heartisblack because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by GoKill
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
reply to post by riley
Right - so condemning lots of children to death to avoid brain damage to a very small number is OK.
In real terms the USA used to have 450 DEATHS and 4000 cases of encephalitis (brain damage) from measles a year before vaccines.
Even if all the 5000 or so cases in the US omnibus autism case are accepted, that's about 250-400 cases a year - or 6-10% the the rate of brain damage that used to be suffered.
So you think a decrease of 90-94% in brain damage isn't actually worthwhile!!
So just to be clear, your saying vaccines somehow 'magically' cure brain damage?
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Originally posted by GoKill
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
reply to post by riley
Right - so condemning lots of children to death to avoid brain damage to a very small number is OK.
In real terms the USA used to have 450 DEATHS and 4000 cases of encephalitis (brain damage) from measles a year before vaccines.
Even if all the 5000 or so cases in the US omnibus autism case are accepted, that's about 250-400 cases a year - or 6-10% the the rate of brain damage that used to be suffered.
So you think a decrease of 90-94% in brain damage isn't actually worthwhile!!
So just to be clear, your saying vaccines somehow 'magically' cure brain damage?
How on earth do you get that from what I posted?
The Measles vaccine reduces the amount of brain damage suffered from measles - ther used to be as many as 4000 cases caused by measles per year in the USA - and you want to return to those levels??
if you think preventing brain damage is the same as curing brain damage then it is little wonder you believe all the anti vaccine hysteria - clearly it didn't cure yours!
edit on 4-9-2011 by Aloysius the Gaul because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
How on earth do you get that from what I posted?
The Measles vaccine reduces the amount of brain damage suffered from measles - ther used to be as many as 4000 cases caused by measles per year in the USA - and you want to return to those levels??
if you think preventing brain damage is the same as curing brain damage then it is little wonder you believe all the anti vaccine hysteria - clearly it didn't cure yours