Measles Hysteria - What's It Really About?
For now, the recent measles hysteria and media frenzy has subsided. No
doubt we’ll see another round of it in the near future. Traditionally
measles occurs most often in the late winter or early spring, just as it
did a year ago with outbreaks in British Columbia and Alberta, and this
year with a few cases in the Toronto area and Quebec. Measles outbreaks
are predicted to continue because of pockets of non immune people as
well as vaccine failure and waning vaccine immunity among fully
vaccinated people. In the pre-MMR vaccine era, the vast majority of
people enjoyed natural lifelong immunity from having had measles in
childhood. Regular seasonal rounds of measles among non-immune children
was the expected norm. In the U.S. measles outbreaks have triggered an unprecedented move by a
number of states to either restrict or remove both religious and
personal vaccine exemptions. Health freedom activist, Dr. Sherri
Tenpenny found that plans to minimize or eliminate vaccine exemptions in
the U.S. have been in the works for a long time as she explains in her
article, Healthy People 2020 and the Decade of Vaccines. The recent
Disneyland outbreak triggered hundreds of pro-vaccine articles vilifying vaccine resistors and calls for an end to exemptions. It set
the stage for draconian measures calling for a national immunization program for
all stages of life. In Oregon, parents fighting to protect vaccine
exemptions in their state, discovered that the National Association of
County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) is a key organization driving the assault on vaccine exemptions. Not only is NACCHO
lobbying state legislators to eliminate vaccine exemptions, it also
advocates for national immunization policy to insure the vaccination of
all people from "cradle to grave". It is in lock step with the goals of
“Healthy People 2020”. In Canada, while mainstream media and health officials posture about
“mandatory” vaccination, after weeks of bashing vaccine resistors, the
rhetoric has subsided. Alberta’s health minister rejected the call for
mandatory vaccination and Health Minister Eric Hoskins in Ontario said he’s not willing to make vaccinations mandatory in the province.
Perhaps these health ministers discovered that in Canada, we’re
protected from mandatory vaccination as stated in this 1996 government report, “Unlike some countries, immunization is not mandatory in Canada; it
cannot be made mandatory because of the Canadian Constitution”. Living
next door to a country poised to forcibly medicate its people while
removing the basic human right to bodily integrity is certainly
unnerving. It requires us to remain vigilant and protective of the
basic human rights we are guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights
and Freedoms which protects our right to “freedom of conscience and
religion” and our right to “security of the person”. Vaccine Culture War
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is America’s oldest and
most trusted vaccine safety advocacy group. Its founder sees the assault
on medical freedoms taken to a new level. In her article The Vaccine Culture War in America, Barbara Loe Fisher describes the
witch hunt against families and dissenting doctors. She asks, “How did a
handful of measles cases at Disneyland turn into a full-scale assault
on civil and human rights in America?” Fisher defines 5 myths of the
“culture war”, and offers powerful arguments countering these myths.
- Myth # 1: Most medical doctors say that vaccines do not cause Injury or death, so it must be true.
- Myth # 2: People who question vaccine safety are ignorant and do not understand the science.
- Myth # 3: People who do not vaccinate are selfish and don’t care about the public health.
- Myth # 4: Science trumps religious beliefs so religious exemptions to vaccination should be eliminated.
- Myth # 5: It is ethical for government to sacrifice the few for the many.
Fisher eloquently dissects these pro-vaccine myths saying that, “Doctors
who say vaccines are safe for everyone and do not cause injury and
death are either uninformed, in denial or lying. Since the first vaccine
for smallpox, doctors have known and it has been well documented that
brain inflammation, permanent brain damage and death have always been
among most serious complications of vaccination. Most people who
question vaccine safety are very intelligent and understand the
difference between good science and bad science. It is not selfish to
want to make informed choices about how to stay healthy. It is not
selfish to protect yourself and your children from harm, especially if
you believe your family is more susceptible to vaccine injury. If
everyone protects their own health and the health of their children, the
public health will be protected.
You do not have to belong to an organized religion or state recognized
church to hold sincere religious or spiritual beliefs about health and
vaccination. As a mother or father, you have the God given natural right
to use the brain and gut instincts God gave you to consider the
evidence, examine your conscience, pray for guidance and exercise the
human right to informed consent to medical risk-taking on behalf of your
minor child. Do not let a doctor, government employee or politician
take that God given right away from you. It is a violation of religious
freedom to force vaccination when you hold religious or spiritual
beliefs opposing use of one or more vaccines and it is a violation of
the human spirit to force you to disobey the certain judgment of your
conscience. Are we going to slide down the slippery slope of
utilitarianism and ignore the profound ethical and legal questions that
remain: Who gets to decide what protects the public health? Which
individuals should be sacrificed? And how many is too many?”
Altering the Immune System Affects Your Brain
What is lacking from the public debate is a discussion of the emerging
science which has for three decades accumulated evidence on the effect an
altered immune system has on brain function. Because of mainstream
media’s strict blackout on publication of evidence demonstrating the harmful effects of vaccines on the immune system, brain and human
health, the population is kept in the dark while remaining captive to a
vaccine paradigm frozen in an obsolete scientific model.
Canadian neuroscientists Lucija Tomljenovic and Chris Shaw have
published a number of important scientific papers on the effects of
aluminum vaccine adjuvants on the brain. In this informative
interview, Dr. Tomljenovic talks about ‘immune system brain disorder’ and
discusses the intimate relationship between the immune system and the
brain. What the research reveals is that aluminum is a potent neurotoxin
which sets off an exaggerated adjuvant-induced immune response that is
causing trouble.
Dr. Tomljenovic says , "The backbone of this research was done 30 years ago. We already knew
that there is a significant connection between the immune system and the
central nervous system. They communicate. You cannot influence the
immune system at the periphery without changing something in the brain.
Most of us know that from experience, because when you get the flu, your
brain doesn’t function very well. That mental fogginess and chronic
fatigue, they are clear neurobehavioral changes in response to an immune
stimulus [infection]. It's a neuroendocrine axis—basically, the immune system at the periphery
and the central nervous system talk to each other. Again, if you
increase an immune response artificially at the periphery, you are going
to mess up the brain. They’ve done that artificially using what they
call viral and bacterial mimics. I thought, “Oh, that spells like
antigens in vaccines,” Because that’s exactly what’s being used.
Commonly in this type of research strong adjuvants are added to
exaggerate the immune response... There is a huge body of research that shows that if you overstimulate
the immune system at the periphery, especially in the critical stage of
early development, you are going to influence the brain in a negative
way, and by doing so, you can create irreversible damage. Again, this is
research that is rarely discussed, because it really shows that there
is reason to question the safety of the burden of vaccines given to
infants.” At Vaccine Choice Canada, we ask, what will it take to bring this basic
information out into the public domain? All parents have the right to
know that the injection of neurotoxic chemicals into their children
during critical phases of development poses the risk of altering normal
immune system and brain function. A recent Toronto area chapter meeting of Vaccine Choice Canada brought
people together to meet each other, share their vaccine injury stories
and to discuss strategies to protect our vaccine exemption rights in a
climate that is increasingly hostile toward those who resist vaccine
dogma. At Vaccine Choice Canada, our primary purpose and mission as a
not-for-profit, educational society is to assist parents to make fully
informed healthcare choices concerning vaccinations and to protect the individual’s right to the medical ethic of voluntary and informed consent.
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