By Barbara Loe Fisher
More than 1.2 million people in the United States are infected
with HIV1
but government officials do not ban HIV infected children and adults
from attending school, receiving medical care, being employed, or
otherwise participating in society.
In fact, there are anti-discrimination laws that guarantee civil
rights protections for Americans infected with HIV or living with
AIDS.2
No Discrimination or Societal Sanctions for Infected Citizens
In 2012, public health officials reported that about two million
people in America are infected with chlamydia, tuberculosis,
syphilis, and gonorrhea,3
and they estimate another three million people are infected with
hepatitis C.4
Like those with HIV or AIDS, these citizens are not targeted for
discrimination and blocked from getting a public education, being
employed, or moving freely in society.
Live Polio Vaccinated Children Could Still Attend School
Between 1963 and 1999, doctors gave live oral polio vaccine to
millions of healthy American children, who became infected with
vaccine strain polioviruses they shed in their body fluids and
transmitted, sometimes causing other children and adults to contract
vaccine strain polio paralysis and die.5,6
Those with compromised immune systems were at special risk for
getting vaccine strain polio and shedding vaccine strain poliovirus
for longer periods of time than healthy persons. Yet, children
recently given live oral polio vaccine were not excluded from
attending school.
Calls for Societal Sanctions After Measles Diagnosed at Disneyland
We are being asked to discriminate against and condone extreme
societal sanctions against fellow citizens,7
including removing religious and conscientious belief vaccine
exemptions from state laws8,9
so children cannot attend school without 49 doses of 14 federally
recommended vaccines by age six and 20 more vaccinations by age 18.10
But in 2015 after a handful of measles cases were identified at
Disneyland, suddenly Americans are being asked to surrender civil
liberties. How did a handful of measles cases at Disneyland turn
into a full-scale assault on civil and human rights in America?
12 States Introduce Bills to Eliminate Non-Medical Vaccine
Exemptions
Why have politicians in 12 states already filed legislation to
eliminate non-medical vaccine exemptions, leaving only a very narrow
medical exemption that most people cannot get?11,12
With 93 percent of pediatricians reporting that parents don't
trust the safety of the government recommended child vaccine
schedule,13
why are many of them refusing to provide medical care to children if
they have not gotten every dose of every federally recommended
vaccine – no exceptions and no questions asked?14,15,16
Censorship of Speech, Shaming, Imprisonment, MD Licenses Revoked?
Why are editorials calling for censorship of speech17,18
and for parents with unvaccinated children to be hunted down and
publicly identified,19
sued,20,21
criminally prosecuted, and imprisoned.22
And for doctors who criticize vaccine safety to have their
medical licenses revoked?23
What is happening right now in America is not about the measles or
public health.
Disneyland 'Patient Zero' Never Found – Assumptions Made Anyway
It all started in January 2015 after 320 million Americans24
had just finished ringing in the New Year and California health
officials announced that nine visitors to Disneyland were infected
with measles.25
Two weeks later, the total number of measles cases was 51, but no
public health doctor in the country could find "patient zero."26
That didn't stop newspapers from proclaiming that a single
"unvaccinated" person with measles spoiled the Magic Kingdom and
that measles is invading America because of "a decline in parents
having their kids vaccinated."27,28
Measles Immunity Wanes, High MMR Vaccination Rate in U.S.
It did not matter that the science shows measles vaccine immunity
is not lifelong and wanes,29,30,31,32
just like pertussis vaccine immunity is temporary and wanes.33,34,35
It is illogical to put all the blame for measles at Disneyland on
1.8 percent of children attending school with vaccine exemptions36,37
when 95 percent of children entering kindergarten have gotten two
MMR shots38,39
and only 1 percent of children under age three are unvaccinated.40
With a grand total of 170 measles cases reported in 17 states by
March 2015, compared to 644 cases reported in 27 states last year,41
and with 42 percent of the California-related cases documented to be
in unvaccinated persons, while 13 percent of cases were
vaccinated,42
there is no justification for gutting vaccine exemptions in state
public health laws.
Witch Hunt Led by Doctors Against Families, Dissenting Doctors
Rational thinking has been the first casualty in this 21st
century equivalent of a 17th century witch hunt43
led by defensive doctors in government, industry, academia, and
media, who are fed up with parents asking them questions about
vaccine risks and failures they can't answer.44,45,46,47
Assisted by communication conglomerates48
and Astroturfers,49,50,51,52,53
they piously wave the science flag and call parents "anti-social" if
they don't vaccinate54
but completely ignore parents with vaccine injured children talking
about how their vaccinated children are never healthy anymore.55
Some of the most vicious attacks have been on families
consciously choosing to stay healthy a different way56,57
and on doctors caring for families whose children are unvaccinated
or receive fewer vaccines on an altered vaccine schedule.58,59
The Cultural War on Freedom, Values, and Beliefs
After headlines like "What would Jesus do about measles?"60
and "God wants you to vaccinate your children"61
marked a new low in American journalism, it became clear that the
so-called "vaccine war"62,63
is really a culture war64
on freedoms, values, and beliefs that have long defined who we are
as a nation.65,66,67
How it is fought and where it ends will determine the kind of nation
America will become in the 21st century.
$100 Billion Vaccine Market in 2025 Featuring Many New Vaccines
The $30 billion global vaccine market today will be worth a
projected $100 billion or more in ten years.68
A lucrative public-private business partnership has been forged
between government and the pharmaceutical industry69,70,71,72,73,74
with your tax dollars to develop hundreds of new vaccines.75
Drug companies completely shielded from product liability because
Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court have declared vaccines to be
"unavoidably unsafe,"76,77
are rushing to licensure genetically engineered vaccines for
syphilis,78
gonorrhea,79
herpes,80
HIV/AIDS,81
tuberculosis,82
chlamydia,83
hepatitis C,84
E. coli,85
cytomegalovirus,86
ebola,87,88
salmonella,89
norovirus,90
adenovirus,91
enterovirus,92
asthma,93
diabetes,94
obesity,95
high blood pressure,96
anti-smoking,97
anti-cocaine98
and anti-heroin99
use, and many more that Pharma and government will want many adults,
as well as children, to buy and use.
Adult Immunization Plan Targets Women, Employees, Faith Groups
The new National Adult Immunization Plan aggressively targets
pregnant women,100
employers and their employees,101
faith based groups,102
and other adults for increased vaccine use.103,104
Health care workers are already being fired if they do not get an
annual flu shot,105
a vaccine that works less than half the time and was completely
ineffective this year.106,107
The next profession on the firing line is the teaching
profession.108,109
A doctor turned politician in Vermont is pushing a bill to require
teachers and everyone working in a school to prove they have gotten
government recommended vaccines or be re-vaccinated.110
Will your profession be next on that list?
Will You Be Prevented from Moving Freely in Society and Be Punished?
Will laws be passed to not only deny you a public education but
prevent you from obtaining health insurance; entering a doctor's
office, hospital or retirement home; boarding a bus, plane, or
train; buying a ticket for a movie or football game; shopping in a
store; getting a driver's license; filing your taxes; or otherwise
participating in and moving freely in society unless you show proof
you have gotten every government recommended vaccine?
Will your healthy unvaccinated children be taken from you111
and will you be fined and thrown in prison?112,113
Will public health officials with police power knock on your door
one day and take you to a quarantine camp or forcibly administer
vaccines to you and your children without your voluntary informed
consent?
If Non-Medical Vaccine Exemptions Removed, You Will Have No Choice
Even if you and your children have willingly received every
government recommended vaccine today, if non-medical exemptions are
removed from U.S. vaccine laws, you will have no choice if you
decide you don't want to use every new liability-free vaccine that
government recommends tomorrow. This vaccine culture war is about a
lot more than vaccination. Because if the State can tag, track down,
and force you against your will to be injected with biologicals of
known and unknown toxicity today, then there will be no limit on
which other freedoms the State can take away in the name of the
greater good tomorrow.
What You Can Do If You Are Ready to Take Action
Are you ready to fight for your freedom? If you are, here is what
you can do:
GET INVOLVED. Participate in our democracy.
Become an active user of the free online vaccine choice advocacy
network at NVICAdvocacy.org
and work with other people in your state to take action. You will
receive email Action Alerts and be put in direct electronic contact
with your own legislators so you can call or email them and show up
to testify at legislative hearings. Invite your friends and family
to do the same.
WITNESS. If you experienced vaccine reactions
and are now chronically ill or disabled, you can share your
experience with others. You are not alone. Vaccine reactions and
injuries are not as rare as doctors want to admit to themselves or
to patients and parents.114
Today, everybody knows somebody who was healthy, got vaccinated, and
was never healthy again.
Talk About What Happened to Your Child After Vaccination
If you are a parent and watched your child scream for hours or
collapse, twitch and jerk, or regress physically, mentally, and
emotionally, and become a totally different child in the days and
weeks after vaccination,115,116,117,118,119,120
you have witnessed a serious event that you can talk about with
other people, including legislators representing you in your state
Capitol and in Congress.
If your child was revaccinated and you observed the same symptoms
or your child's health got worse, it is compelling scientific
evidence of a causal relationship between vaccination and what
happened to your child. In scientific studies, this is called
challenge/re-challenge121
and what you saw is called clinical observation,122
even though when parents do the observing most doctors dismiss what
happened as "anecdotal"123
evidence or a "coincidence"124,125
that has no value at all.
Your Child's Life Has Value, Don't Let Anyone Bully and Shame You
What you witnessed happen to your child after vaccination
does have value because your child's life has value. Don't let
a doctor or anyone else bully and shame you into being afraid to
talk about what you saw happen after vaccination, especially if your
child is now chronically ill or disabled and has been diagnosed with
learning disabilities; ADHD; epilepsy; autoimmunity; autism or
communication, developmental or disruptive behavior disorders;
asthma, allergy or other brain, and immune system dysfunction.126
Witnessing about what happened after vaccination is a way to help
others understand that every life has value, and no person's life
should be considered expendable, and that we must never forget that
universal truth.
REPORT. It is estimated that only between 1 and
10 percent of serious vaccine-associated reactions,
hospitalizations, injuries, and deaths are ever reported to the
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS),127,128
even though federal law requires all vaccine providers to make
reports. If your doctor refuses to file a vaccine reaction report,
you can do it yourself. Go to NVIC.org
and learn how.
NVIC Vaccine Reaction Registry; Freedom Wall; Memorial; Failure Wall
If you or your child were bullied or threatened with loss of
employment, medical care, health insurance, federal food or housing
assistance, the right to attend school, or anything else because of
your vaccination status, you can make a report to your state and
federal legislators. Register for the
NVIC Advocacy Portal today
to be put into direct electronic contact with them.
On NVIC.org, you can also
report a vaccine reaction to
NVIC's
Vaccine Reaction Registry and share your experiences with others
by posting a vaccine harassment report on the
Cry for Vaccine Freedom Wall, or creating a page on the
Memorial for
Vaccine Victims, or reporting a vaccine failure on the
Vaccine Failure Wall.
LEARN MORE. Become educated about infectious
diseases and the science, policy, law, and ethics of vaccination. Go
to NVIC.org to find fully
referenced, accurate information you can trust.
Now, I am going to review five myths and facts that will help you
understand what the vaccine culture war is really about:
VACCINE CULTURE WAR MYTH NUMBER 1:
Most medical doctors say that vaccines do not cause
injury or death, so it must be true.
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.129,130
Just like any other pharmaceutical product, vaccines carry a risk of
injury or death. These risks can be greater for some people with
genetic, biological, and environmental risk factors that doctors do
not understand or cannot predict.131
Congress, U.S. Supreme Court Say Vaccines Are 'Unavoidably Unsafe'
Knowing this, Congress in 1986132
and the U.S. Supreme Court in 2011133
declared vaccines to be "unavoidably unsafe" and shielded drug
companies from all product liability.134
If you or your child are injured or die after vaccination, you
cannot hold the drug company that makes and profits from the vaccine
or anyone who regulates, promotes, administers, or mandates the
vaccine accountable in a civil court of law in front of a jury of
your peers.
Liability for Seat Belt Manufacturers - NOT for Vaccine
Manufacturers
Seat belt manufacturers have product liability135
but vaccine manufacturers do not. Doctors can be sued for
malpractice except when they administer vaccinations that injure or
kill a person. Vaccines are the only product government mandates and
completely indemnifies. The federal government has paid $3 billion
in compensation to victims of vaccine injury and death under the
National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.136
VACCINE CULTURE WAR MYTH NUMBER 2:
People who question vaccine safety are ignorant and
do not understand the science.
Just the opposite is true. Most people who question vaccine
safety are very intelligent, and understand the difference between
good science and bad science.137,138,139
Studies reveal that mothers and fathers with college or
post-graduate degrees are the ones who most often question the
safety of vaccines.140,141,142
They are wondering whether government policy directing pediatricians
to give children three times as many vaccinations as children got 30
years ago143
is safe, effective, and necessary.
Big Knowledge Gaps in Vaccine Safety Science
If growing concerns among parents about vaccination was simply
due to ignorance, two decades of reports published by the Institute
of Medicine would not have found large knowledge gaps in vaccine
safety science.4144
For example, there are fewer than 40 published studies evaluating
the safety of the federally recommended child vaccine schedule for
infants and children under age six.145
VACCINE CULTURE WAR MYTH NUMBER 3:
People who do not vaccinate are selfish and
don't care about the public health.
While we are all born equal with equal rights under the law, we
are not born all the same. Each one of us is born with different
genes and a unique microbiome influenced by epigenetics146
that affects how we respond to diseases147,148
and pharmaceutical products like vaccines.149,150
Many Americans no longer vaccinate today because the risks of
vaccination turned out to be 100 percent for them, their children,
or other family members. They have good reason to believe that the
genes they were born with make them more susceptible to vaccine
harm.151,152,153,154,155
Vaccine Vulnerable Families Can't Find Doctors to Write Medical
Exemptions
But often these former vaccinators cannot find a doctor to write
a medical exemption because almost no health condition qualifies for
a medical exemption to vaccination anymore.156
Unless you are dying of cancer and on chemotherapy, have had a
recent organ transplant or have the most severe combined immune
deficiency, most doctors will not grant you a medical vaccine
exemption.157
Non-medical vaccine exemptions are the only way vaccine vulnerable
families can protect their lives.
Some Healthy Americans Choosing Different Path to Health
Some Americans use fewer vaccines or remain unvaccinated because
they have chosen a different path to health. They focus on boosting
immune function with good nutrition, exercise, avoiding
environmental toxins, and using holistic health alternatives that do
not rely on heavy use of pharmaceutical products.158,159,160,161They
are contributing significantly to the public health because they and
their children are very healthy.
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.
VACCINE CULTURE WAR MYTH NUMBER 4:
Science trumps religious beliefs so
religious exemptions to vaccination should be eliminated.
The attack on Americans with religious or spiritual beliefs is
central to the political agenda driving this cultural war.162,163,164
Fellow citizens, who do not believe there is a God,165,166,167,168
are demanding that those who have faith in God be required to place
the same faith in science and doctors.169
There is a big difference between fallible human beings and God, but
some doctors do not understand this difference.
Vaccine Developer Ridicules Religious Belief, Quotes Scripture
One prominent pediatrician vaccine developer,170
who insists that babies can safely be given 10,000 vaccines on the
same day,171
has publicly ridiculed religious beliefs172,173,174
but now is hypocritically quoting holy scripture175
and comparing Disneyland to the "Garden of Eden."176
Invoking the name of Jesus, he is trying to shame Christian parents
refusing to obey his orders to give their children every government
recommended vaccine, including the one he created177
that has made him a very rich man.178,179,180
Mothers Responsible for the Health of Their Children
I remember many years ago when a public health doctor promoting
the "No Shots, No School" campaign in America suggested I was
"selfish" for declining to give my two youngest children pertussis
vaccine even though my oldest son was DPT vaccine injured. Implicit
was the suggestion that I had no right to protect my own children's
health if it conflicted with what doctors believe protects the
public health.
I looked him straight in the eyes and said "Doctor, whether or
not I put my child's life on the line for you and your vaccine is
between me and my God, and not between me and you."
As mothers, we carry our babies inside us for nine months, we
give birth, we love them more than we thought we could ever love
anyone, and we nurture them throughout childhood so they can grow up
to be productive adult members of society. We are responsible for
their health and we are the ones who care for them when they become
sick and unable to care for themselves for any reason, and we are
the ones who weep at their graves if they die before we do.
Do Not Let Anyone Violate Your Religious, Conscientious Beliefs
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.181,182,183
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.
VACCINE CULTURE WAR MYTH NUMBER 5:
It is ethical for government to sacrifice the few for the many.
Based on hedonism184
and a mathematical equation, this philosophy is called
utilitarianism185,186
and comes from the word "utility."187
The utilitarian rationale was created as a guide for legislators
making public policy by an 18th century British social reformer
Jeremy Bentham,188,189,190
In 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court used Bentham's utilitarian rationale
to rule in Jacobsen v. Massachusetts that state
legislatures had the power to enact mandatory smallpox vaccination
laws.191
American Eugenicists, U.S. Supreme Court Embraces Utilitarianism
American eugenicists and social reformers embraced utilitarianism
in the early 20th century.192,193
They argued that government has the legal right to discriminate
against a minority of citizens judged to be genetically defective or
a threat to the health and welfare of society. In 1923, U.S. Supreme
Court Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes194
gave the green light to the state of Virginia to forcibly sterilize
a young woman, Carrie Buck, because doctors judged her to be
mentally retarded just like her daughter and mother.
Coldly, Holmes proclaimed: "three generations of imbeciles
are enough" and said "The principle that sustains
compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the
fallopian tubes."195
It turns out Carrie Buck was not mentally retarded and neither was
her daughter or mother.196
Utilitarianism Pseudo-Ethic in Its Most Extreme Form
Doctors and public health officials in the Third Reich
implemented utilitarianism in its most extreme form to justify
conducting horrific scientific experiments on captive people.197,198
The Nuremberg Tribunal justices presiding over The Doctors Trial
after World War II declared utilitarianism to be a pseudo-ethic.
They issued the Nuremberg Code outlining the informed consent
principle,199,200
which has guided research on humans and the ethical practice of
medicine ever since.201,202,203
Forced Vaccination Laws Sacrifice the Genetically Vulnerable
The Institute of Medicine has confirmed that some individuals
have known and unknown genetic risk factors that make them more
susceptible to vaccine injury and death.204
This means forced vaccination laws that fail to include flexible
medical and non-medical exemptions become a utilitarian, de facto
selection of the genetically vulnerable for sacrifice.205
Is America really going to walk down that road? Are we going to
punish citizens for the genes they were born with in the name of the
public health? 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?
Industry and Government Fail to Fund Good Vaccine Safety Science
Industry206
and government have refused to fund good science to better
understand the biological mechanisms for vaccine injury and death,
and whether there are important health differences between
vaccinated and unvaccinated people,207
and whether increased vaccine use during the past 30 years is
a major co-factor in the unexplained chronic disease and disability
epidemic plaguing America.
With 1 child in 6 diagnosed with learning disabilities,208
1 in 9 with asthma,209,210
1 in 50 with autism211
and 1 in 400 with diabetes,212,213
and millions of Americans suffering with cancer and other immune and
brain disorders that cost our nation $3 trillion a year to treat,214,215,216,217
isn't it time for government to explain to taxpayers exactly why
vaccine safety science should be left off our nation's scientific
research agenda?
Perhaps they already know they don't have to do that because they
are getting laws passed to hunt down and vaccinate every last child
and adult in America. Eliminating non-medical vaccine exemptions
will guarantee that scientific evaluation of health outcome
differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated people in America
will never be done.
The Future Is in Our Hands
The future of health and freedom in America is in our hands. It
is in your hands.
It's your health. Your family. Your
choice.
Copyright 1997- 2015 Dr. Joseph Mercola. All Rights Reserved.