written by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO, AOBNMM, ABHIM
Pro-vaccine advocates consistently defend the three same positions:
- “I have seen children die from a vaccine-preventable illness.”
- “Vaccinated children are protected.”
- “Vaccinating YOU is done to keep ME from getting sick.”
Let’s look at each one of these:
- Kids do occasionally die from an infection. This truth is touchy and it not meant to in anyway minimize a death of any child (or adult). But just because we have a vaccine for a particular pathogen, doesn’t mean the illness is “vaccine preventable.” There are many examples of illness and even death in fully vaccinated children. What is completely left out of the discussion is how many are permanently disable – or die – from a vaccine. Why don’t those sad stories ever reach the mainstream news?
- Vaccinated children are protected. It is completely accepted and widely embraced that vaccinated children will not get sick and all unvaccinated children will contract the infection. No exceptions on either side are considered. And, quite frankly, neither argument is accurate. Many vaccinated kids still get sick with the illness they were vaccinated against. The unvaccinated rarely get sick…with a “vaccine-preventable” infection, or any type of infection for that matter. And unvaccinated children are rarely on daily medications or have long-term health problems.
- Vaccinating ME keeps YOU from getting sick. Think this through for a minute; it may be one of the biggest medical gimmicks of al times.
Scientific evidence demonstrates that individuals vaccinated with live virus vaccines such as MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), rotavirus, chicken pox, shingles and (nasal) influenza can shed the virus for weeks to months and can infect the vaccinated and unvaccinated. And, if I’m vaccinated, and you have a poor diet, smoke and don’t wash your hands, how does my vaccine keep you from getting sick? This concept has been pushed most heavily onto healthcare workers where in most states, they have to get a flu shot to keep their job. In 2013, a meta-analysis of eight studies found little evidence that vaccinating healthcare workers provides protection for patients. Workers take all the risk of side effects and patients get no benefit.
Vaccination has been accepted as safe, effective and protective when in truth, none of these premises hold up under scrutiny. Pro-vaccine arguments are soundly defeated, time after time. The insistence on demonizing the unvaccinated is inappropriate and forced inoculation is the worst possible form of bullying. Vaccination has become a medical sacred cow, defined as “a medical procedure that is unreasonably immune to criticism.” Doctors and patients who question vaccines are ridiculed and marginalized. It is heresy to suggest that the status quo is wrong.
The real vaccine “pseudo-science” is exposed for the rhetoric it is: factoids crafted by public health officials from the WHO and the CDC, and then regurgitated by under-informed medical professionals to a naïve public to make money for the drug companies.
Wake up Americans and Citizens of the World. Your very DNA of is being corrupted. Unless we all step up and get involved with stopping these bills – including the plan for widely vaccinating adults – we will get the “show me your vaccine papers” government we deserve.