In this issue:
- Ontario – new vaccine exemption form
- Worldwide push toward mandatory vaccination
- The vaccine merry-go-round
- The state of children’s health
- Standing Orders
- Vaccine Choice Canada at BabyTime Show in Toronto Nov. 10-12
Ontario - new vaccine exemption form
As many of you are aware, the Ontario government recently passed an
amendment to the Immunization of School Pupils Act that makes life
harder for families who make alternative vaccine choices. People in the
vaccine choice movement see the new law as coercive and threatening to
our most basic Constitutional rights, i.e, the right to freedom of
conscience and religion, and the right to security of the person. We
believe that the new law also violates our informed consent rights as
articulated by Ontario’s Health Care Consent Act and numerous
international treatise that uphold the basic human right to refuse unwanted medical treatment without intimidation or coercion. The Ontario provincial government now has the full power to force a
‘vaccine education’ session on parents before they are ‘allowed’ to file
a vaccine exemption so that their healthy un-vaccinated or partially
vaccinated children can attend school. Most parents who make alternative
vaccine choices do so after extensive reading and research, and often
after a child has suffered a vaccine reaction or injury. Medically based
vaccine exemptions are very difficult to obtain. Many parents report
that their doctors won’t acknowledge vaccine reactions and injuries,
refuse to sign medical exemption forms, and even refuse to file vaccine
adverse events reporting forms (AEFI), leaving families no other option
but to file a conscience based vaccine exemption. The new vaccine exemption form, is a coercive and intimidating document that has many parents worried and angry. Confusion has arisen as to
whether signing the exemption “Affidavit” on page 2 also means that the
parent agrees with the “Risk of not being vaccinated” statement embedded
on page 1, part of which reads as follows:
“With the decision to delay or refuse vaccines, you are accepting
responsibility that you are putting your child’s health and even life at
risk.”
The second page is clearly titled “Affidavit” and contains the wording
of the oath a parent must sign, get notarized and submit to their local
Public Health Unit. Many parents are concerned that by signing the
Affidavit on page 2, they are agreeing with this self-incriminating
statement, inserted by the government on page 1.
VCC has sought legal advice on this. The legal opinion we received
indicates that the parent’s signature on the Affidavit only covers the
oath on page 2. The legal opinion also states that the government’s
risk statement on page 1 is separate from the Affidavit, and that the
parent is NOT agreeing with the risk statement by signing the
Affidavit. We urge parents not to be intimidated by the wording of the
new exemption form, and to file the exemption affidavit as you have the
legal right to refuse any or all vaccines for your children.
Our response to the egregious assertion in the ‘risk statement’ which
basically defines parents as negligent if they choose not vaccinate, is
one of outrage. When the government makes a statement that by not
vaccinating, “you are putting your child’s health and life at risk”,
parents have every right to be concerned.
The VCC response to the new
2017 Ontario exemption form and risk statement is a 16 page Investigative Report that challenges and deconstructs the government’s misinformation and
lies. In the Report, VCC researcher, Nelle Maxey, sets out the science,
statistics and conflicts of interest in this review of the real history
of diseases and decline in mortality, how vaccines destroyed true herd
immunity, and evaluates the real risks of getting the vaccines, or
getting one of the so called ‘vaccine preventable diseases”. The VCC
response to the 2017 Ontario exemption form provides parents with the
ammunition to counter government vaccine propaganda and misinformation.
The government’s intention is clear – to create a climate in which
obtaining a vaccine exemption is so onerous and intimidating that people
will be frightened into vaccinating their children instead of filing a
vaccine exemption form. We urge parents, “Do NOT be intimidated by these
tactics!”
Once the parent obtains a certificate from their health unit verifying
that they’ve attended the ‘vaccine education’ session, they must then
attach the certificate to the new exemption affidavit which must be
witnessed (stamped & signed) by a notary public, a lawyer, a
commissioner of oaths, a Member of Parliament or other qualified people
which are listed on the VCC website.
These two documents together are then submitted to their local public
health unit.
Worldwide push toward mandatory vaccination
Today we are seeing an unprecedented worldwide movement by governments
to make vaccination compulsory. Starting with California, once
considered the most liberal state in the US, the abolition of personal
belief or religious exemptions in 2015 sent shock waves across the U.S.
and Canada. Similar bills were introduced in many states against which
pro-choice vaccine activists fought long and hard to preserve parents’
right to religious and personal belief exemptions. That same year, the
80,000 member Canadian Medical Association started lobbying to abolish
vaccine exemptions rights, and in 2016 voted in favour of ending
personal belief and religious exemptions at its annual general meeting.
"It's time to end all non-medical exemptions for vaccination," said Dr.
Tommy Gerschman, a Vancouver physician. The pressure from the CMA two years running to abolish personal belief
and religious exemptions is behind the recent legislative change in
Ontario that makes it harder for parents to file vaccine exemptions.
In Australia, the new “No Jab No Pay” legislation removes parents’
rights to file religious or conscientious objections to vaccination
under penalty of forfeiting government benefits for their children. Its
intent is that parents who do not follow the Australian Childhood
Immunisation Schedule on time, will be unable to claim child-care
subsidies and that those who are eligible for family tax benefits will
lose that too.
Australia’s, Judy Wilyman PhD has published a scholarly 380 page referenced critique of the history and politics of vaccination.
She uncovers what has led to draconian vaccination policies now being
implemented world wide. These repressive policies emanate from the
conflicted public-private partnerships struck between governments,
public health entities and the mega multinational pharmaceutical
industry. Her analysis is sobering. She says these government
vaccination policies are not designed to protect public health, “because
they coerce the public into using a medical intervention that is being
promoted on false claims of safety, efficacy and necessity. She writes,
Doctors are also paid bonuses for increasing the “vaccination rates” of
the population and this is being used as a surrogate measure for the
“health” of the population – without assessing the actual health of
infants and children after using multiple vaccines at the prime time of
their development.
Dr. Wilyman accuses governments and research institutions of not having
done the scientific studies to prove that vaccines are NOT causing the
5-fold increase in chronic illness occurring in Australian children over
the past two decades. One can extrapolate this to other countries with a
similarly aggressive vaccine schedule such as Canada and the U.S.
“Governments globally have not proved that vaccines are harmless. On the
contrary, they have proved that they are “unavoidably unsafe” and that
they are linked to allergies, anaphylaxis, asthma, autoimmune diseases,
tics, neurological damage and autism. Put simply, governments have
never systematically evaluated the long-term health impact of using
multiple vaccines on infants/children, and mandatory over-vaccination is
not protecting public health.”
“The burden of proof of harmlessness of any procedure/technology is on the proponent and not the general public”
Since early summer, millions of Italian parents have poured into city streets across the nation in protest of new draconian mandatory
vaccination laws. France is heading in the same direction.
Mainstream media outlets in Italy, the US and Canada ignore the record
protests against medical coercion and deliberately avoid reporting them
to the general public.
In this hard hitting article, Robert Kennedy Jr. discusses the
implication of fast tracking mandatory vaccination policies while the
media muzzles scientists who raise the alarm about vaccine contaminants.
In every human vaccine analyzed, Italian scientists found “wide-ranging
contamination, including minute particles of lead or stainless steel in
all the vaccine samples analyzed, chromium in over half, tungsten in
over a fifth, and many other varieties of metallic particles.
Rumblings of mandatory vaccination are also stirring in the UK. The
British Medical Association (BMA) is “calling for evidence to be
submitted to the UK Government on “the potential advantages and
disadvantages of childhood immunisation made mandatory under the law”.
British health officials are a bit more cautious around the question of
mandatory vaccination as there’s a long and notorious history of
anti-vaccine activism in Britain that reaches back to the 1700s right
through to the early 1900s. There is a dark history of compulsory
vaccination in Britain. After more than a century of public protests,
the jailing and persecution of vaccine resisters, whose children had
been injured and killed by smallpox vaccine, the government finally had
to soften the mandatory vaccination law and allow people to file
conscience based exemptions. Several excellent books have been written
on the history of resistance to smallpox vaccination: We recommend
Bodily Matters and Jabs, Jenner & Juggernauts by Canadian Author, Jennifer Craig.
A thoughtful letter submitted by French physician, Claudina A. Michal-Teitelbaum MD, to the
British Medical Journal (BMJ) analyses the questions, “why and for what
purpose” is there a desire for politicians and individuals to make
vaccination compulsory in European countries?
She writes, “We can’t identify any particular event that puts public
health at risk in European countries which are targeted by these
measures.” She also asks whether these initiatives to mandate vaccines
is based on any justifiable science or public health grounds since they
strongly restrict the freedom of choice of parents. Vaccine promoters
justify these measures by saying, “in order to increase vaccine coverage
and reach herd immunity and to avoid an unacceptable public health
threat.”
However, she points out, these arguments are based on arbitrary and
unproven assumptions, and that this can be proven. Dr. Michal-Teitelbaum
provides examples of the increase of diseases like pertussis (whooping
cough), invasive pneumococcal disease and meningitis following the
introduction of vaccines. She writes, “Immunization is a complicated
topic that needs more reflection and less coercion. It’s time to realize
that vaccines, like medicines, are not a mystic panacea and that they
are subject to the commercial and political pressure and also to the
influence of conflicts of interest.”
The vaccine “merry-go-round
Vaccines change the natural epidemiology of diseases and lead to the
vaccine “merry-go-round” [ see chart on page 9 of our new Report] in which vaccine suppression of diseases gives rise to new, more
threatening diseases. Haemophilus influenza B (Hib) vaccine, which suppressed
the incidence of the ‘B’ serogroup of the disease has resulted in the
upsurge of other strains of the bacteria for which there are no
vaccines. Hib itself arose as an invasive bacterial disease in response to widespread use of DPT vaccines.
While measles vaccines have suppressed the disease from cycling every
few years, the opportunity to develop lifelong immunity is lost for
children who don’t experience the natural infection, with
multi-generational repercussions for both infants and adults. In the
pre-vaccine era, babies were protected from measles in the first year of
life because of cross placental immunity acquired from their mothers
who themselves had measles in childhood. Unfortunately babies don’t
receive the same quality of immunity from their vaccinated mothers.
Because vaccines do not impart lifelong immunity, there are unknown
numbers of fully vaccinated adults whose waning immunity leaves them at
risk of the very diseases they were vaccinated against.
Pertussis vaccines do NOT prevent spread of the disease, they only
suppress symptoms which has resulted in fully
vaccinated, asymptomatic people spreading the disease to the vulnerable. A new analysis of the dramatic increase of whooping cough has found that “The
startling global resurgence of pertussis, or whooping cough, in recent
years can largely be attributed to the immunological failures of
acellular vaccines.”
The state of children’s health
No one in Canada or the U.S. knows or acknowledges the extent to which
children’s health has been adversely affected by the huge increase of
vaccines given to children starting in the mid 1980s. A grim picture of
chronic diseases afflicting nearly 50% of American children emerged from
a U.S. study a few years ago. Because of the similarities in our cultures
and the same public health practices vis a vis vaccines, it is safe to
assume that these findings apply to Canada as well.
In a 2011 study – published in Academic Pediatrics, an estimated 43% of US children (32
million) currently have at least 1 of 20 chronic health conditions
assessed, increasing to 54.1% when overweight, obesity, or being at risk
for developmental delays are included. The estimate is derived from
2007 data. Undoubtedly matters are much worse today and could exceed 50%
of children being chronically ill, not counting obesity.
Another study in the June 2011 issue of Pediatrics found that
developmental disability was on the rise in the U.S. Between 1997 and
2008, the number of school-age children diagnosed with autism, ADHD, or
another developmental disability rose by about 17 percent. It's estimated that roughly 15 percent of kids – nearly 10 million –
have such a disability. Boys had a higher prevalence overall and for a
number of select disabilities compared with girls.
An independent vaccinated vs. unvaccinated study published earlier this
year comparing the health outcomes of home schooled children in several
U.S. states, found that children who receive fewer vaccinations are
less likely to develop chronic illnesses. The study concluded that
vaccinated children were “much more likely to have been diagnosed with a
chronic illness (including allergies and learning disabilities) when
compared to unvaccinated children. In addition, 7.5% of the 666 children
in the study had been diagnosed with a neurodevelopmental disorder
(NDD).”
In this powerful interview with
world renowned geneticist Theresa Deisher PhD, she talks about genetics,
DNA and the rise of vaccine injuries and autism. Her research has found
that vaccines grown on human fetal tissue are all contaminated with
human DNA debris which can trigger autism disorders, leukemia and
lymphomas. This information needs to reach parents everywhere so they
can make well informed decisions when considering vaccines for their
children.
Standing Orders
Standing Orders: Vaccine policy makers are busy devising ways to
increase vaccine uptake. Recently a physician working at a busy west
coast hospital in the U.S. disclosed that hospital policy requires that everyone admitted must get a flu
shot. He writes, “Because of core measures, automatic order for flu
vaccine exists on every person admitted to the hospital…….[and]…..
nurses “are instructed to administer the vaccine regardless of the
patient's mental status or ability to provide consent. They are to give
it regardless of medical condition, and patients in septic shock on life
support are expected to be vaccinated. Some nurses have been refusing
on medical grounds, fearing adverse outcome on these critically ill
patients, and they are now being called on the carpet by the hospital.”
The “core measures” this doctor is talking about are actually known as
“Standing Orders”, a protocol developed by the “Standing
Orders” group, a think tank supported and funded by various medical
lobby groups, the Immunization Action Coalition and Pfizer
pharmaceuticals. Their purpose is to insure that hospitals and clinics
adopt aggressive militaristic vaccine directives that flu shots and
pneumococcal vaccine are given across the board to all patients
admitted to hospital regardless of the criticality of their health, and
without their informed consent. Without vigorous public opposition to
these cleverly orchestrated ethical violations, we are all at risk of
having our most basic human right to refuse unwanted medical
interference violated, with impunity!
Vaccine Choice Canada at the BabyTime Show, November 10-12, 2017
Vaccine Choice Canada will have volunteers and lots of information at
our booth #121 at the BabyTime Show at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, November 10-12. We’ll
be there for 3 full days. Please drop by to chat with our volunteers
and pick up books, flyers, DVDs.
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