California is one of three states in the US that
will not allow anything but a medical exemption from
vaccination, for which 99.99 percent of children do
not qualify under federal guidelines
Forcing children who do not have all of the
state-mandated vaccines to home school is a
violation of civil rights
California also passed a bill to prevent adult
daycare workers from being employed in California
unless they have received all state-mandated
vaccines
By Dr. Mercola
There is a closing window of opportunity for you to make a
difference in the cultural vaccine war that's imploding on us
now, and we're going to tell you what you can do about it.
As noted by Barbara Loe Fisher, president and co-founder of
the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), starting in
January of 2015, Americans were slammed with what can only be
described as mass hysteria surrounding the measles outbreak in
Disneyland.
Patient zero has never been identified. To this day, public
health officials still don't know who brought measles into
Disneyland.
Yet in no time at all, public health officials joined with
pharmaceutical company and medical trade organization lobbyists
and immediately started calling for elimination of all
non-medical personal belief vaccine exemptions (for religious
and conscientiously held beliefs).
Orchestrated Mass Hysteria and the March into Tyranny
At the beginning of 2015, 48 states allowed a religious
vaccine exemption in addition to a medical exemption, and 17
states included a personal, conscientious, or philosophical
belief exemption in vaccine laws that require children to get
government recommended vaccinations to attend school.
As many of you know, the result of that hysterical
demonization of anyone taking a personal belief vaccine
exemption resulted in a huge Pharma-funded lobbying campaign
in California to take away the personal belief exemption in that
state, which encompassed both religious and conscientious
beliefs, leaving only the very narrow medical exemption that
must be granted by a medical doctor.
The Pharma-Medical Trade government lobbying campaign was
successful, despite stronger than ever opposition to the
proposed forced vaccination bill (SB277) from thousands of
Californians who showed up in droves to object to the bill at a
series of legislative public hearings and protest rallies.
California is now only one of three states in the US that
will only allow a medical vaccine exemption written by a doctor,
for which 99.99 percent of children do not qualify under strict
federal guidelines.
Unless you can find a medical doctor to write your child a
medical exemption, your child cannot go to day care or attend
public or private schools in California without getting multiple
doses of 9 or 10 state mandated vaccines (polio, diphtheria,
pertussis, tetanus, haemophilus influenza B (for day care),
hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella zoster
(chickenpox).
If you refuse even one federally recommended dose of those
vaccines, you are forced to homeschool your child.
"I'm calling it segregation of children who do not
have all of the state-mandated and recommended vaccines,"
Barbara says, "which is a violation of civil
rights. It's a violation of civil rights not to allow
children to get a school education.
It's very serious. One hundred vaccine-related bills
were introduced in this country in January and February of
2015 as a result of this mass hysteria about measles' cases
associated with Disneyland.
In Texas, 20 bills were introduced. In 11 states, the
personal belief exemption was attacked for removal.
At the end of the day though, because people stood up
and fought back to try to preserve these personal belief
exemptions, the state of California was the only one that
eliminated the personal belief exemption.
In Vermont, the philosophical exemption was removed but
the religious exemption was retained. Now, you have 47
states that have the religious exemption and medical
[exemption]. About 16 states left have the philosophical or
conscientious belief exemption."
2015: A Turning Point for the Worse
It seems quite obvious that the Disneyland debacle was a
well-coordinated, orchestrated, and carefully-planned event
aimed at implementing a strategy to compel vaccine use on
everyone, without exceptions.
Not only has California removed the personal belief vaccine
exemption for children attending daycare and schools, the
legislature also passed a bill to prevent any adult child care
worker from being employed in California unless they have
received all state-mandated federally recommended vaccines.
Adults and parents who want to volunteer in daycare and child
care centers also will not be able to do so unless they're
up-to-date on all of the state-mandated vaccines. Says Barbara:
"This year was really a turning point in the vaccine
safety and informed consent movement in the 21st century.
This well-orchestrated move by the pharmaceutical,
medical trade, and public health agency alliance to remove
all non-medical exemptions, and to do it in such a sweeping
way is something I think Americans need to wake up to.
Understand: our freedom is taken away incrementally
in this country.
We have to be vigilant and we have to understand that
once you walk down this road where you are punishing people
if they don't conform with government policy, that's a very
dangerous road to walk down. We have to take action to
protect our freedom."
Vaccine Rate Tracking Opens the Door for Discrimination
After they successfully took away the personal belief vaccine
exemption in California, federal health officials launched a new
national vaccine tracking and school safety "rating" system on
the CDC's website, and California launched a similar website at
the state level that tracks and rates schools using colored
stars based on vaccine uptake.
Using electronic medical records and vaccine tracking
systems, California's website has an interactive map that
publishes for each kindergarten and middle school the percentage
of children who are in full compliance with state vaccine
mandates and how many take personal belief exemptions.
The information includes the names and addresses of the
schools in the state; numbers of children enrolled; the personal
belief exemption rate; the up-to-date vaccination rate; and the
vaccine coverage rates in that school for each state mandated
vaccine.
Government health officials then rate each school using a
star system — a green star means 95 to 100 percent of the
student body is fully vaccinated; a red star indicates less than
79.9 percent are vaccinated.
This is a violation of medical privacy, because let's say a
school has less than 100 students, revealing the percentage rate
could make it very easy for parents to figure out who might have
a personal belief vaccine exemption, and they may then become
targets for discrimination.
"I'm very concerned about this," Barbara says."I
think it's outrageous. I wrote a commentary shortly after,
saying that if health officials are determined to do this,
then they should be very truthful with parents about the
real health status' of children attending schools in this
country.
Because the truth is, within the last 30 years, as
the government has mandated more and more vaccines for
children, we have seen a chronic disease and disability
epidemic sweeping through American schools.
Why don't they also post the numbers of sick days
that children have taken in private and public schools? Why
not the percentage of children who are chronically ill,
disabled, or on medication for things like asthma, diabetes,
ADHD, bipolar disorder, and depression – two conditions that
have sky rocketed among children in the last few decades?
Why don't they post the percentage of the children
who have HIV, hepatitis B, syphilis, and tuberculosis (TB)?
There are children attending our schools who have those
transmittable, infectious diseases. Why don't we know about
them?
Why don't they post the percentage of children who
are in special education classes, who have autism and
learning disabilities, and the percentage of children who
are fully vaccinated or unvaccinated and get infectious
diseases? This idea that rating schools in terms of safety
that's connected with the vaccine coverage rate and the
personal belief exemption rate, that's not the only way you
characterize the health of a student population.
We have got to put the brakes and put boundaries on
the interventions that these public health officials are
suggesting. There is no more fundamental a human right than
the freedom to decide what you're going to risk your life or
your child's life for in terms of putting something into
your body or the body of your child."
Militarization of Public Health Policy and Medical Fascism
Personally, I believe current government-enforced "no
exceptions" vaccination policies can be called medical fascism,
and it is easy to connect the dots between the revolving doors
of government and industry. If you study history, you will
discover that the head of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) — the federal agency responsible for
recommending these draconian "one-size-fits-all" forced
vaccination policies — was headed up by Dr. Julie Gerberding
between 2002 and 2009.
After spending eight years as the director of the CDC, she
went on to become the president of the division of vaccines for
Merck, a Pharma giant making billions of dollars marketing
vaccines in the U.S. and globally.
She was an insider, and she knows how the CDC works. Now,
she's the president of the drug company that is the sole
producer of the measles vaccine in the MMR shot in the U.S., and
we have this outbreak of measles at Disneyland in January 2015
that is immediately blown out of all proportion to support
oppressive civil rights' violations to prop up a failing mass
vaccination program. Corporate intervention in government is
part of the very definition of fascism, and that's precisely
what the pharmaceutical industry is doing, through their
aggressive lobbying and their revolving doors.
Revolving Doors Between Industry and Government Must Be Shut
The revolving door between the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the pharmaceutical
industry should be prohibited by law. Employees routinely leave
these government agencies to go to work for drug companies, and
sometimes they rotate back and forth more than once. As noted by
Barbara:
"It's not allowed in any other industries. It's not
allowed in the defense industry. There are at least a
certain number of years you have to wait. But there's a long
history of researchers, doctors, and scientists who are
associated with the Department of Health and Human Services
who are working for pharma and vice versa.
The other thing that I think people don't realize is
the Congress, in the last 30 to 40 years, has given the
green light to federal health agencies to create a formal
financial public-private partnership with the pharmaceutical
industry. When you have a business partnership with someone,
you are not going to have a lot of oversight on the safety
of the products that your business partner is creating.
This is especially true if the agencies involved in
making policy for how we use these vaccines also license
them for safety and effectiveness, and use taxpayer dollars
to pay advertising agencies and people within HHS to
aggressively promote the widespread use of these vaccines.
Now, it's gone beyond promotion. It's going into
taking out a hammer and clubbing people and saying, 'You may
not function in society unless you have gotten all the
government recommended and mandated vaccines.' There's no
other word for this but 'tyranny' because informed consent
is a human right. The human right to informed consent to
medical risk taking must be protected in this and every
country."
Medical Overreach and Deceptive Advertising
The fall season is upon us, which means being subjected to
the usual avalanche of flu vaccine advertisements that go along
with it. You can get a flu shot virtually anywhere these days,
at your pharmacy, in grocery stores, and in airports. They're
also launching a new adult immunization plan targeting community
services locations, such as places of worship and private
businesses.
I recently experienced a new level of this aggressive,
invasive flu shot marketing. I received both a phone call
and a text from a medical clinic I had visited a few years
ago for an insurance physical, telling me it's important that I
get a flu shot, and where I could get one. I was outraged, and I
called the medical director to give him a piece of my mind.
This is a dramatic example of how they're reaching into every
area of our lives, insisting that getting an annual flu shot is
necessary when, in fact, the exact opposite is the case. There's
actually NO evidence that the flu vaccine even works. In many
years, it has an exceptionally low effectiveness rate. The three
or four influenza strains contained in annual flu shots
represent only a fraction of the 200 or so different viruses
known to circulate and cause flu-like symptoms each year. In
addition, only about 20 percent of suspected influenza cases
that occur during the flu season test positive for type A or
type B influenza.
If the influenza strains contained in the flu shot aren't a
good match for the strains circulating in any given year, it's
obviously not going to do you much good. For example, CBC News
recently reported that, in British Columbia, Canada, this year's
flu vaccine offers only 30 to 50 percent protection.1
Last year's vaccine was a near total mismatch, offering
virtually ZERO protection whatsoever against the viral strains
in circulation! Yet, despite that documented fact, people were
still told to get their flu shot!
Flu Vaccine Is Leading Cause for Vaccine Injury Compensation
Among Adults
Why take the risk for near-zero protection? You'd think that
a blanket recommendation to get an annual flu vaccine from
cradle to grave would be made with a firm base of well-executed,
placebo-controlled, randomized, and multi-central trials to
prove it was safe and beneficial. But that's not the case. No
such studies have ever been carried out.
Influenza vaccinations are actually among the leading cases
in the vaccine injury compensation program (VICP). There are
more adults getting awards for influenza vaccine injuries than
any other injury in the compensation program. Most injuries
receiving compensation are Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS).
"You can be, literally, completely paralyzed from the
neck down and not be able to do anything if you get a very
severe case of Guillain-Barre Syndrome following
vaccination," Barbara warns. "People need to wake
up and understand that you need to get information about not
only influenza but the risks and failures associated with
these flu vaccines.
There are many manufacturers now who are
manufacturing flu vaccines, because it's such a lucrative
market now that the government has said that every year,
every single American from the age of six months through the
year of death, have to get a flu shot."
As time goes on we're also realizing there's a lot we don't
understand about how vaccines work and how viruses mutate. For
example, the 2012 to 2013 flu vaccine was also ineffective, and
research2
shows that this vaccine failure was not due to
mutations in the circulating virus. Instead, the vaccine did not
work due to mutations in the egg-adapted H3N2 vaccine strain
(meaning the viral strain used in the vaccine),causing a
mismatch to the circulating strain.
Research3
published in 2013 also showed that getting vaccinated against
one strain of influenza raises your risk of severe infection
from a related but different influenza strain. So are annual
flu shots making Americans' health better, or worse?
Vaccine Makers Are Not Liable for Harm
When I first started practicing medicine in the mid '80s, flu
vaccines were recommended for people over 65 and for those with
cardio-respiratory pulmonary illness. That probably covers less
than 10 percent of the population. Then around the year 2000,
the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory
Committee suggested that everybody over age 50 should get
vaccinated.
"Then, in the following decade, every year, or every
other year, they brought more age groups into the influenza
vaccine net until finally, a couple of years ago, the CDC
said, 'Every single person, all 321 million Americans from
the age of six months through year of death, has to get
influenza vaccine,'" Barbara says.
"Now, if you're an influenza vaccine manufacturer,
you've got dollar signs in your eyes. That's an incredible
market; many tens of billions of dollars. Because guess
what?
There is no liability associated with any of these
influenza vaccines, or any vaccine that's recommended and
licensed by government, in this country. You cannot sue a
vaccine manufacturer for any reason if you or your child
gets hurt by influenza vaccine or any other vaccination.
What a dream market. It's a drug company stockholder's dream
and a consumer's worst nightmare."
The Vaccine Policy Is a Money Making Racket
And the nightmare is only getting worse. Researchers are
working on a
universal flu vaccine, and there's evidence such a vaccine
may have dire consequences if they get it wrong. They're also
genetically engineering vaccines, and creating novel adjuvants,
such as the squalene-type adjuvants that have been associated
with narcolepsy and other kinds of autoimmune disorders. As
noted by Barbara:
"There is a green light for drug companies with this
public-private partnership to basically do what they want. I
couldn't believe it when I saw the 21st Century Cures Act,
which has gone through the House of Representatives. It was
introduced earlier this year. It proposes to lower
the FDA standards to be applied to these companies when they
want to license new vaccines. Lowering the standards rather
than raising them means greasing the skids even more.
The pharmaceutical industry is the number one
lobbyist up on Capitol Hill and in the state legislatures.
Almost $1 trillion dollars every year is given by Congress
to the Department of Health and Human Services. [For
comparison], the Department of Defense gets about $500
billion. So the Department of Health and Human Services is
the number one agency in this country that gets the most
amount of our federal taxes every year, and that doesn't
include Social Security because the Social Security
Administration is a separate agency.
If you look at all that money, where are the scientific
studies we've been calling for — the bench science that goes
down to the cellular, molecular level to look at what
happens in the body, in our brains, and immune systems, when
you use adjuvants to ramp up the response of the immune
system? Those of us who have autoimmune disease in our
family, or neurological disorders, are sitting ducks for
these new ways they want to ramp up the immune system
response to vaccination...It is truly a shot in
the dark and it's not right."
To Protect Your Freedom, You Need to Get Involved in the
Political Process
If you value your freedom, you have to become more involved
in the political process. In 2010, the National Vaccine
Information Center (NVIC) launched the
NVIC Advocacy Portal — a free online interactive
communications tool.
By signing up as a user, you will receive an email whenever
legislation is moving at the state or federal level that relates
to vaccine policy and your ability to make vaccine choices.
Contact information is provided, allowing you to contact your
state legislator or federal representative to make your voice
heard. The NVIC will provide you with information about the
pending legislation, as well as talking points.
"It's about education. It's about participating in
the process and standing up for your rights. We can take
back our freedoms and protect our civil and human rights,
but only if millions of us get involved."
Barbara says. "The NVIC Advocacy Portal is part of
the reason we were able to protect the personal belief
exemptions in nine of the 11 states that tried to take it
away, because we were able to communicate with everyone who
was on the Portal in that state. They were able to be in
contact with each other. We were able to tell them when
hearings were being held, and they would show up at the
hearings, and hold other meetings."
Freedom Is Not Just a 'God-Given' Right; Keeping It Is a
Personal Responsibility
If we want to be victorious in this vaccine culture war, we
can benefit from lessons learned. We failed to stop the forced
vaccination lobby in California this year, but we were
successful in states like Texas, where 20 bad vaccine bills were
defeated!
The key is to get empowered, join the NVIC Advocacy Portal and
get involved. We the people need to educate our legislators. It
really is a war against personal freedom, and we need to put in
the time now and prepare for these battles rather than wait
until another inevitable legislative effort comes along and rips
away even more freedom right from under our nose. As Barbara
says:
"It's beyond the 11th hour, but I think we have to
have courage and we have to have faith. We have to know that
we can turn it around and do what we can every day, no
matter how small. Even if it's just a conversation with your
neighbor or a family member. I know it's not easy because
this conversation has become so polarized.
You're either a pro or you're an anti, even if you
try to take an informed consent position, which is a
rational and ethical position to take — that you have the
right to be fully informed about the risk associated with
any medical intervention or pharmaceutical product like a
vaccine, and be able to make an informed and voluntary
decision. We need to make it a different kind of
conversation...
The media is calling for the de-licensing of any
physician who doesn't promote the use of all
government-recommended vaccines, and the imprisonment of
parents who did not give their children every
government-recommended vaccine. It's gotten completely out
of control. The rhetoric is something I never thought I'd
see in America."
Upcoming Vaccine Information Facebook Event
On Thursday evening, November 12th, from 9 to 10 p.m.
ET, Barbara and I will be holding a vaccine information event on
Facebook. We'll feature short videos, and information about the
programs and services of the NVIC. Various staff members will
also be highlighting different programs and services available
at the NVIC, all of which relate to education and advocacy. I
hope you'll join us, and that you'll invite your friends and
family to this important information-packed event.
Please Support the NVIC, and Join the NVIC Advocacy Portal
The
NVIC Advocacy Portal is a free tool that everyone can use to
become better informed about vaccine issues, and it also helps
you engage in the political process. I strongly encourage you to
join. I also urge you to support the NVIC financially. During
Vaccine Awareness Week, I will match your donations dollar for
dollar.
The window of opportunity to turn this dystopian nightmare
around is closing. We can still make a difference, but
eventually — if we fail to stand together — that window of
opportunity will slam shut, and none of us, anywhere, will have
the freedom of making vaccine choices.
"On NVIC.org, you can read about the pain and
suffering of people in this country on our Vaccine Freedom
Wall. We have several years of comments from people about
how they suffered when they tried to go to doctor's offices
and make vaccine choices, or they try to get their children
into school. It's really an amazing testimony to just what
we're talking about here...
Unfortunately, the medical schools and the health care
professionals in this country are only getting one side of
the story and they're not really being educated, and then
they go into practice and then they take that bias with
them. It's such a sad thing to see when everyone should be
working together to try to increase the health of our
country and individuals and not just implement government
policy. That is not truly informed government policy because
the science is not there. They haven't done the science that
needs to be done."
Help Support Vaccine Awareness Week
From November 8th to 15th we launch Vaccine Awareness Week.
With aggressive efforts by pharmaceutical companies, medical trade
groups, and the government to restrict or eliminate all non-medical
vaccine exemptions, it's critical for you to act now to protect your
legal right to make informed, voluntary vaccine choices.
Thankfully we have organizations such as the
National Vaccine
Information Center (NVIC) to provide information on vaccine
safety and informed consent protection in the public health system.
This group's mission is to prevent vaccine injuries and death,
through public education and defending your right to informed
consent.
Resources Where You Can Learn More
NVIC Advocacy Portal: Become an effective vaccine choice
advocate in your state and defend your legal right to make
voluntary vaccine choices for yourself and your children.
Ask 8 Vaccine Information Kiosk: Download brochures on
vaccines and how to recognize vaccine reaction symptoms, as well
as posters and web badges, to help you educate your family and
friends when you advocate for vaccine freedom of choice.
Guide to Flu & Flu Vaccines: This Mini Guide to Flu and Flu
Vaccines is a brief summary of facts about influenza and
influenza vaccines.
Let's Help NVIC Get the Funding They Deserve
This charitable organization has been working since 1982 to
prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and to
provide information and counseling to those reporting vaccine
adverse responses.
Please consider donating to NVIC to help support their mission
and join the vaccine awareness movement today.