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originally posted by: xDeadcowx
a reply to: AshOnMyTomatoes
drtenpenny.com...
Here’s the problem. It’s not surprising that death rates were declining before introduction of the vaccines. Medicine was improving. More importantly, supportive care was improving. For example, take the case of polio. Before the introduction of the iron lung and its widespread use, for example, if a polio patient developed paralysis of the respiratory muscles, he would almost certainly die. The iron lung allowed such patients to live, some for decades. No doubt improved nutrition also played a role as well. However, if you want to see the impact of vaccines, take a look at this graph from the CDC of measles incidence, not death rates:
Similar results were seen most recently from several other vaccines, including the Haemophilus influenza type B vaccine, as the CDC points out:
Hib vaccine is another good example, because Hib disease was prevalent until just a few years ago, when conjugate vaccines that can be used for infants were finally developed. (The polysaccharide vaccine previously available could not be used for infants, in whom most cases of the disease were occurring.) Since sanitation is not better now than it was in 1990, it is hard to attribute the virtual disappearance of Haemophilus influenzae disease in children in recent years (from an estimated 20,000 cases a year to 1,419 cases in 1993, and dropping) to anything other than the vaccine.
In the post to which I referred, the most intellectually dishonest graph is this one:
Note how this graph, unlike all the other graphs used to make the claim that “vaccines didn’t save us” actually uses incidence data, in this case from Canada from 1935 to 1983. I was immediately suspicious of this graph, though. The reason should be obvious; the decline in measles incidence is far too smooth. Measles incidence typically varies greatly from year to year. Fortunately, in his chutzpah, Obomsawin included a link to the actual source of the graph. Naturally, I couldn’t resist checking it out, and I found that the link leads to the Canadian Immunization Guide section on the measles vaccine. And this is the actual graph from which Obomsawin allegedly extracted his data:
Note how Obomsawin left out a section of ten years (1959 to 1968) during which measles was not nationally reportable. Also note how he’s, to be charitable, cherry picked the years to produce the impression of a smoothly declining measles incidence from 1935 to 1958. As I said, it doesn’t get much more intellectually dishonest than that
originally posted by: Yeahkeepwatchingme
To be blunt, exactly who the hell are they to tell us what to do with our bodies and our families? I mean really? Take all the little Hitlers, local and federal and put them on an island somewhere. Our bodies, our rules, why is that so hard to comprehend for them and some people? S + F
originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: Yeahkeepwatchingme
Vaccines don't cause autism.
originally posted by: stolencar18
a reply to: MystikMushroom
Better yet...if your kid gives my kid some disease and my kid dies or gets some crazy life-altering side effect (ie brain damage) can we imprison you? What about eye for an eye? My kid goes down, so does yours? Is that fair? Obviously I'm taking this to the extreme but answer this: what right do you have to allow your kids to be disease carrying menaces that can infect other kids, immunized or not immunized. What if he plays with another kid who isn't immunized and they both get something?
My two cents: Anyone who doesn't immunize their children shouldn't be allowed within several miles of any other children. It doesn't matter if schools ban them. They can come into contact with each other at malls, hospitals, passing on a sidewalk, restaurants, airplanes, etc. If you want a disease-prone menace because you're afraid of a ultra remote chance of a bad side effect (instead of a fairly high chance of actually dying from measles or other diseases) then you don't belong in my country and neither do your kids. How DARE you think that you can drag your rugrats around everyone elses kid putting them at risk.
originally posted by: coldkidc
a reply to: douglas5
Now that's a conspiracy - nanobots on this scale are real & already here even though everybody still thinks it's sci-fi future stuff...so...who knows?
Here's a thread/link with Dr. Ido Bachelet, a well qualified source that says nanobots are a current reality & usable now:
Revolutionary nanotechnology that can be used to cure cancer, among others, to begin human trials.
Ido Bachelet announces 2015 human trial of DNA nanobots to fight cancer and soon to repair spinal cords
However, I don't support the multi-cocktail for babies and young children.
originally posted by: Philippines
However, I don't support the multi-cocktail for babies and young children.
This is where I stand on vaccines. I think they are effective, and only some are really necessary, but definitely not all - especially not the flu vaccine.
However, I adamantly oppose giving vaccines to newborns and infants. They have no business getting a shot that early in life. If the vaccines were effective for newborns, they wouldn't need boosters every 2 months too.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: Philippines
However, I don't support the multi-cocktail for babies and young children.
This is where I stand on vaccines. I think they are effective, and only some are really necessary, but definitely not all - especially not the flu vaccine.
However, I adamantly oppose giving vaccines to newborns and infants. They have no business getting a shot that early in life. If the vaccines were effective for newborns, they wouldn't need boosters every 2 months too.
I'm on the fence regarding flu shots. I think it should be personal choice, unless it is a flu so severe it threatens society as a whole.
I did not say infants should not be vaccinated. Many infants today are in daycare where they are susceptible to communicable diseases.
I just think they should be spread out instead of a multi-cocktail.