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Originally posted by jasonl1983
But Bill Gates says they're safe! Anybody else think he's turning into some sort of "I want to rule the world" megalomaniac?
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by jhn7537
You should simply investigate what is in them besides the vaccine.
Originally posted by WeRpeons
reply to post by beckybecky
Funny you should post this thread today. I just got back from my yearly physical and the first thing my doctor asks me when he walks into the room is, "did you get the flu shot yet?" I said no, and than he started to give me a sales talk about why I should consider getting it.
I told him he could talk about me taking the shot until the cows come home because I just didn't trust the shots. I told him I've gone my whole life never needing one and I also honestly couldn't remember the last time I came down with the flu. He looked at me and said, but you're a teacher and you're in an environment with kids who may be carrying the flu virus. I said so, and I don't ever remember taking a day off because I was sick with the flu. He was perplexed to say the least. He than laughs and says, I have to watch who I pick my battles with.
I really think I'm bombarded with germs and viruses everyday. I just think my body naturally creates a resistance to germs and viruses. I'm handling papers from kids who are sneezing, coughing and just coming back from being sick. You would think teachers would be the most susceptible to viruses, but I think if they did some research on it, they would find the majority of teachers don't really get sick that often.
I just find it really odd how they have been pushing flu shots in the past few years.
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by kalamatas
These are not exactly neutral unbiased sources dude.
I'm sorry. these diseases are gone because of vaccines. They didn't run rampant for hundreds of years and then suddenly disappear when vaccines were introduced by chance. The global population didn't go up by a factor of x3 around the same time as these vaccines by chance.
It was because of vaccines. That's why we didn't have 7 billion people on Earth until them.
3 billion to 7 billion in 50 years, starting around the time of widespread vaccine use.
And you know, I'll go further than that. There's strong evidence that ancient Rome knew about bacteria, and had some form of vaccines. And guess what. The population of Rome alone was in the millions then as well.
I maintain my point though. They are putting things into them that are a big no no. But vaccines are the primary cause of health and population increases in the last 50 years.edit on 8-1-2013 by Gorman91 because: (no reason given)
Public health was developed by the Romans as they believed that cleanliness would lead to good health. The Romans made links between causes of disease and methods of prevention. as a consequence they developed a large system of Public Health works around their empire.
The Romans believed that Prevention of illness was more important than cure of illness. Roman Philosophy was based along the lines of searching for a reason then establishing a preventative measure to minimise the risk attached. As a practical people they used observations of the environment to determine what was causing ill health. This form of empirical observation led the Romans to realise that death rates were higher in and around marshes and swamps.
The cure would then be based upon logic. As the Romans believed that Gods held the key to longevity of life they initially built Temples to the gods near large swamps to pacify them and reduce the deaths. Alternatives to this were the drainage of swamps and they also ensured that the army and important people lived away from these areas.
Such empirical observations led the Romans to believe that ill health could be associated with, amongst other things, bad air, bad water, swamps, sewage, debris and lack of personal cleanliness. In some places, Rome included, it is impossible to avoid all of these unless something is physically done to alter the environment. The Romans, being technologically adequate, resolved to provide clean water through aqueducts, to remove the bulk of sewage through the building of sewers and to develop a system of public toilets throughout their towns and city's. Personal hygiene was encouraged through the building of large public baths (The City of Bath being an obvious British example of these).
The consequence of this pragmatic approach to preventative measures was an advanced system of public health structures, many of which are still visible in places today.
Originally posted by Waldy
reply to post by fourthmeal
quacky research should not be the foundation we base on when the health of our children is at stakes!
"When building a house or farm especial care should be taken to place it at the foot of a wooded hill where it is exposed to health-giving winds. Care should be taken where there are swamps in the neighbourhood, because certain tiny creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes breed there. These float through the air and enter the body by the mouth and nose and cause serious disease." Marcus Varro.
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by kalamatas
Well a booster shot is because of mutations. See there's this thing called evolution. lol.
Now as for statistics, you might have missed my previous post.
Sorry to inform you, but the time when vaccines for common infant mortality correlates to the baby boomer generation and the overall global population boom. And one of the few things that the world had easy access to, mostly because of colonization, was in fact, shots.
And as for Rome: (remember, there is no evidence they had microscopes)
"When building a house or farm especial care should be taken to place it at the foot of a wooded hill where it is exposed to health-giving winds. Care should be taken where there are swamps in the neighbourhood, because certain tiny creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes breed there. These float through the air and enter the body by the mouth and nose and cause serious disease." Marcus Varro.
They also had needles, but this isn't exactly proof for vaccinations by needle. The way they vaccinated is probably the way I vaccinate myself naturally without shots today. I consume natural immune boosters and get myself sick. 3 days later, I'm vaccinated. Did you miss the recent news? They found pill medicines on roman ship wrecks.
This method is basically vaccination without needles. Same function, different form. You can get vaccinated by either boosting your body and letting yourself get sick early, or weakening the disease and putting it in you.
That's all a vaccine is.
Boosters aren't different than the original vaccine. It's not modified for mutations. That makes no sense. Boosters are to boost immunity not cover mutations. Wow.
What you're talking about is exposing yourself to pathogens via the proper immune stimulating route. This confers true immunity because, as I already noted previously, you are exposed to the pathogen via mucous membranes and your gastrointestinal tract. This is the proper way to signal the body to mount a PROPER immune response and actually learn to fight the pathogen. It is a completely different mechanism than injecting a dead substance intramuscularly or if the nurse sucks at shot into your bloodstream.
Why do you need a tetanus booster? Not because of mutation but because effectiveness wears off. Ingest tetanus toxoid and you become immune.
It is absolutely NOT the same function. Your completely bypassing the first and critical lines of defense.