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Originally posted by SplitInfinity
reply to post by Ruralguy
First of all...just because you have had your shots does not make you 100% unsusceptible to developing the disease. You are still a carrier even if you do not get sick.
Plus...a kid who has had their shots could be a carrier and infect a kid without their shots. The idea is to not allow the Virus to Mutate which it will do in a case of extreme exposure to kids that have had their shots.
Once the Virus mutates...all bets are off. Split Infinity
Originally posted by frazzle
Originally posted by SplitInfinity
reply to post by Ruralguy
First of all...just because you have had your shots does not make you 100% unsusceptible to developing the disease. You are still a carrier even if you do not get sick.
Plus...a kid who has had their shots could be a carrier and infect a kid without their shots. The idea is to not allow the Virus to Mutate which it will do in a case of extreme exposure to kids that have had their shots.
Once the Virus mutates...all bets are off. Split Infinity
What you're saying is that you're not safe unless you get it, but you're not safe even though you get it, and no one else is safe either, whether you get it or not. That argument strikes me as illogical fear mongering.
Originally posted by Rubinstein
I descend from people who didn't need vaccines, as does everyone here.
In 1957 the 'Science' told us that Thalidomide was the latest wonder drug to be used for treating morning-sickness.
Originally posted by FurvusRexCaeli
Originally posted by Rubinstein
I descend from people who didn't need vaccines, as does everyone here.
Only because the people who did need vaccines died before reaching childbearing age, or after giving birth to your ancestors. You can say ex post facto that they didn't need vaccines, so long as your only criterion for "not needing a vaccine" is "successfully reproducing someone who would become one of your ancestors." I don't think your egocentric retrospective paradigm of public health is really going to catch on.
In 1957 the 'Science' told us that Thalidomide was the latest wonder drug to be used for treating morning-sickness.
Not in the United States. I propose that other countries, the ones that did approve thalidomide for use in pregnant women, were not doing "the 'Science'" correctly.
Originally posted by frazzle
Pharma, Utilities and Big Ag Lead Lobbying in 2012
Pharmaceuticals, utilities and big agriculture have led the lobbying charge so far this year, according to preliminary figures from latest lobbying disclosures. The pharmaceutical industry as a whole spent $69.6 million on lobbying in the first three months alone, while electrical utilities spent $43.3 million. The agricultural services industry - which includes heavy hitters like Monsanto, the American Farm Bureau and Archer Daniels Midland - spent far less, only about $12.9 million, but that represented a 48 percent increase over its lobbying in the final three months of 2011.
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At the forefront of the pharmaceutical firms' lobbying push was PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America), the industry trade group, which has spent $5.2 million so far this year. If that rate is sustained, PhRMA will top its 2009 total - when it fought hard over healthcare reform and spent $26.1 million. Following right behind the trade group was Merck, which has spent $4.5 million so far this year, more than half of its total spending in all of last year.
www.opensecrets.org...
Originally posted by Rubinstein
Nice find frazzle, most people think that Big Pharma spend a lot of their money on research, though in relatively little goes on research, most goes on Marketing and Lobbying. If it was REAL research and REAL testing, they'd have to spend a lot more money on it.
Originally posted by picratus
reply to post by Rubinstein
most shots here in the west have helped to eradicate most childhood diseases ,the only problem is that our governments are allowing people into our countries who have never been immunized. and we are seeing a rise in those diseases here in the west.and yet there are countries where none of these shots are available for their people and the west is starting to pay for it.what happens if these diseases mutate our shots and updated shots are useless ,remember past history of the world -THE BLACK DEATH spread like wild fire when it went through Europe.
we are now seeing diseases from the southern countries migrating north ward and we have no shots for them here in the lower 48 or all the way up to southern Canada as the 49th parallel is on the same latitude as California at point pee-lee in Ontario..
back to the flu shot and all of their hype and scare tactics about get the shot ,as they throw together a concoction of strains of flu and hope and pray that they got it right this time so far their average is not so good.considering that the flu has been around forever and most people get it at lest once in their lives ,example - i`m almost 60 and never have i had the flu and i have never gotten the shot ,so who really needs it .
Originally posted by SplitInfinity
reply to post by frazzle
There is a BIG difference between on station...ready to go...USAID or UN Disaster workers who have been innoculated in stages with multiple booster shots as are Members of CDC Task Forces.
A Christian Group with limited resources will be getting a single shot...if that...and after this shot a person is supposed to wait to see if any interactions occur before getting secondary or third booster shots.
Plus they are getting these innoculations that are not the latest State of the Art immunizations that are developed to handle the latest mutation of diseases.
It takes time to build up true immunity to a mutating Virus or Bacteria.
Split Infinity
Originally posted by SplitInfinity
reply to post by frazzle
There is a BIG difference between on station...ready to go...USAID or UN Disaster workers who have been innoculated in stages with multiple booster shots as are Members of CDC Task Forces.
A Christian Group with limited resources will be getting a single shot...if that...and after this shot a person is supposed to wait to see if any interactions occur before getting secondary or third booster shots.
Plus they are getting these innoculations that are not the latest State of the Art immunizations that are developed to handle the latest mutation of diseases.
It takes time to build up true immunity to a mutating Virus or Bacteria.
Split Infinity
Originally posted by SplitInfinity
reply to post by frazzle
FRAZ...although many things you say are true...the reality is that I TRAVEL...and there is NO WAY IN HELL...I would go to some of the places I have been without undergoing several rounds of Booster Shots. NO WAY!
I have seen what happens to people who are not properly immunized and it is horrific. Anyone who thinks they can just travel to a Third World Country without these shots and not have a HIGH PROBABILITY of being infected by various diseases is fooling themselves...to Death!
Split Infinity