Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Vaccines, a draft

This is mostly plagiarism.  I've just copied and pasted info from various sources here, I have yet to organize it and edit.

http://vaccineinfo.net/immunization/vaccine_facts.shtml
Did You Know that.
7 vaccines (polio, hepatitis A, varicella, pertussis, diphtheria, tetanus, and haemophilus influenzae b) have NOT been "evaluated or tested for their carcinogenic potential, mutagenic potential, or for impairment of fertility" or "reproductive capacity" according the vaccine manufacturers' own product inserts.
3 vaccines (varicella, hepatitis A, and rubella) were cultured in human diploid cells (eg. human embryonic lung cell cultures and human diploid cell cultures WI-38 and MRC-5). The Chickenpox vaccine contains "residual components of MRC-5 cells including DNA and protein."
6 vaccines (polio, hepatitis B, hepatitis A, pertussis, diphtheria, and tetanus) contain formaldehyde - a highly noxious and carcinogenic preservative.
5 vaccines (hepatitis B, pertussis, diphtheria, tetanus, and haemophilus influenzae b) contain thimerosal, a mercury derivative preservative BANNED by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in over-the-counter (OTC) drug preparations because of questions over safety. (Federal Register: April 22, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 77)][Page 19799-19802]
5 vaccines (hepatitis B, hepatitis A, pertussis, diphtheria, and tetanus) contain aluminum as an adjuvant. Aluminum accumulates in brain, muscle and bone tissue and can be linked to causing fibrosarcomas (cancerous tumors) at the injection site.
5 vaccines (measles, mumps, polio, varicella, and diphtheria) are developed from animal ingredients including cell cultures of chick embryos, monkey kidney cells, fetal bovine serum, and embryonic guinea pig cell cultures. There has been a moratorium in this country on animal organ transplants in humans because of concerns of people contracting latent animal viruses. Despite the history of unscreened animal viruses infecting humans from injectable products like vaccines [monkey cells and SV40 virus and bovine serum and "Mad Cow Disease" (bovine spongiform encephalopathy)], this practice continues with vaccines.
5 vaccines (measles, mumps, rubella, polio, and varicella) are LIVE virus vaccines. Live virus vaccines can sometimes infect the recipient and can even sometimes infect those in close contact with the recipient. These vaccines are given to young children, and vaccine immunity sometimes wears off for adults. This can put a pregnant mother or immunocompromised adult at risk by being around a recently vaccinated child with live virus vaccines.
For ALL 11 vaccines there have been NO long term studies on the cumulative effect on the child's developing immune system of combining all these vaccines together.
For ALL 11 vaccines the biological mechanism for why some children react to a vaccine is not understood.
For ALL 11 vaccines there are no genetic or other lab screening tests available to determine which children will react to a vaccine.


Reason #1: The Risk of Side Effects
The burden of proof should NOT be on parents! It’s not our job to prove that vaccines are safe or not safe.
“The burden of proof for vaccine reactions should not rest on parents, as it does now in our medical-legal system. The burden of proof for the safety of vaccines, that is, that the vaccines are NOT causing adverse genetic changes, should rest on the manufacturers, federal and state Government health agencies, and the schools who are mandating the vaccines. Until this matter is settled does anyone at any level truly have the right to force vaccinations in ever growing numbers on a generation of children?”
Harold Buttram, MD, 'Vaccines and Genetic Mutation'
Vaccines are drugs. Drugs have side effects. Some of these side effects are only annoying and will go away in time. Other side effects cause permanent damage.
This is by far my biggest reason for not vaccinating. The risks of side effects are real. This information is straight from the vaccine makers and the CDC. They print these side effects in the package inserts because there were actual cases where these side effects occurred. Then the side effects are completely downplayed so that we think it’s nearly impossible for our children to experience an adverse reaction to a vaccine. Doctors tell us that it’s extremely rare and practically a one in a million chance. The reality is that the chances are a lot lower than a million to one. But even at a million to one I’m not risking my child being that one.
Their focus groups don’t contain enough people to make a determination that a “one in a million chance” is possible. If they see a side effect within their focus group of 500 people, then that’s one in 500.
Proponents of vaccines tell us “The benefits outweigh the risks.” Do they? Vaccine makers know that a certain percentage of children will experience an adverse reaction to the vaccine, but taken as a whole (i.e. the rest of the population) these children are expendable for the “greater good.” I just DO NOT buy into that belief. My child is not expendable. My child is not a lab rat to be be experimented on with the notion that if my child is one that does have an adverse reaction that I can rest assured that by “taking one for the team” that the rest of the industrialized world may now rest easy under the blanket of vaccine protection. Call it a philosophical viewpoint but as a parent I just can’t sacrifice my child on the altar of the “greater good.”
Before I started researching vaccines I had never heard of children being damaged by vaccines. There are more than 340,000 reports of adverse reactions to vaccines on VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System). This number is only a tiny fraction of the actual number of reactions because most doctors don’t report vaccine reactions.
You can peruse the VAERS database at any time to read about the kinds of adverse reactions caused by vaccines. Pro-vaccine people will call this “anecdotal evidence” and then use the argument that correlation does not equal causation. I might believe that if it were a couple of incidents, but when you start reaching incidents in the hundreds of thousands there just might be something to these anecdotes.
Below are some specific quotes pulled from the vaccine package inserts (written by vaccine manufacturers) or from CDC sources. Each quote is followed with a citation for the actual link to read for yourself in you so desire.
DTaP:
“Adverse events reported during post-approval use of Tripedia vaccine include idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, SIDS, anaphylactic reaction, cellulitis, autism, convulsion/grand mal convulsion, encephalopathy, hypotonia, neuropathy, somnolence and apnea.
Events were included in this list because of the seriousness or frequency of reporting. Because these events are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequencies or to establish a causal relationship to components of Tripedia vaccine.” ~Manufacture package insert http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/ucm101580.pdf
Varicella (Chickenpox): Can Chickenpox Vaccine Cause Injury and Death?
Yes. Between March 1995 and July 1998, the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) received 6,574 reports of health problems after chickenpox vaccination. That translates into 67.5 adverse events per 100,000 doses of vaccine or one in 1,481 vaccinations. About four percent of cases (about 1 in 33,000 doses) were serious including shock, encephalitis, thrombocytopenia (blood disorder) and 14 deaths.
The VAERS data analysis led to the addition of 17 adverse events to the manufacturer's product label after the vaccine was licensed in 1995, including secondary bacterial infections (cellulitis); secondary transmission of vaccine strain virus infection to close contacts; transverse myelitis; and Guillain Barre syndrome; and herpes zoster (shingles). There have been documented cases of transmission of vaccine strain virus from a vaccinated child to household contacts, including a pregnant woman.
A CDC vaccine safety study found that children aged 12-23 months were twice as likely to experience febrile seizures with the 4 in 1 combination shot, ProQuad, which contains varicella zoster, measles mumps and rubella vaccines, compared to administering MMR vaccine and Varivax separately.” http://www.nvic.org/Vaccines-and-Diseases/Chickenpox.aspx
Rotavirus:
  1. Commonly Reported Reactions: temporary diarrhea, fussiness/irritability, cough/runny nose, fever, loss of appetite, and vomiting.
  1. More Serious Reported Reactions: ear infection, pneumonia
Also, according to the Rotarix package insert: Since FDA approval, reports of infants with intussusception have been received by Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Intussusception occurred days and sometimes weeks after vaccination. Some infants needed hospitalization, surgery on their intestines, or a special enema to treat this problem. Death due to intussusception has occurred.
Other reported side effects include: Kawasaki disease (a serious condition involving inflammation of the blood vessels that can affect the heart; symptoms may include fever, rash, red eyes, red mouth, swollen glands, swollen hands, and feet and, if not treated, death can occur). http://www.nvic.org/Vaccines-and-Diseases/Rotavirus.aspx
Hepatitis B Vaccine: HEPATITIS B VACCINE REACTION REPORTS OUTNUMBER REPORTED DISEASE CASES IN CHILDREN ACCORDING TO VACCINE SAFETY GROUP http://www.nvic.org/nvic-archives/pressrelease/pressreleasejan271999.aspx
MMR:
(Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Virus Vaccine Live)
ADVERSE REACTIONS
The following adverse reactions are listed in decreasing order of severity, without regard to causality, within each body system category and have been reported during clinical trials, with use of the marketed vaccine, or with use of monovalent or bivalent vaccine containing measles, mumps, or rubella:
Body as a Whole
Panniculitis; atypical measles; fever; syncope; headache; dizziness; malaise; irritability.
Cardiovascular System
Vasculitis.
Digestive System
Pancreatitis; diarrhea; vomiting; parotitis; nausea.
Endocrine System
Diabetes mellitus.
Hemic and Lymphatic System
Thrombocytopenia (see WARNINGS, Thrombocytopenia); purpura; regional lymphadenopathy;
leukocytosis.
Immune System
Anaphylaxis and anaphylactoid reactions have been reported as well as related phenomena such as angioneurotic edema (including peripheral or facial edema) and bronchial spasm in individuals with or without an allergic history.
Musculoskeletal System
Arthritis; arthralgia; myalgia.
Arthralgia and/or arthritis (usually transient and rarely chronic), and polyneuritis are features of
infection with wild-type rubella and vary in frequency and severity with age and sex, being greatest in adult females and least in prepubertal children. This type of involvement as well as myalgia and paresthesia, have also been reported following administration of MERUVAX II.
Chronic arthritis has been associated with wild-type rubella infection and has been related to
persistent virus and/or viral antigen isolated from body tissues. Only rarely have vaccine recipients developed chronic joint symptoms.
Following vaccination in children, reactions in joints are uncommon and generally of brief duration. In women, incidence rates for arthritis and arthralgia are generally higher than those seen in children (children: 0-3%; women: 12-26%),17,52,53 and the reactions tend to be more marked and of longer duration. Symptoms may persist for a matter of months or on rare occasions for years. In adolescent girls, the reactions appear to be intermediate in incidence between those seen in children and in adult women. Even in women older than 35 years, these reactions are generally well tolerated and rarely interfere with normal activities.
Nervous System
Encephalitis; encephalopathy; measles inclusion body encephalitis (MIBE) (see
CONTRAINDICATIONS); subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE); Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS);
febrile convulsions; afebrile convulsions or seizures; ataxia; polyneuritis; polyneuropathy; ocular palsies; paresthesia.” http://www.merck.com/product/usa/pi_circulars/m/mmr_ii/mmr_ii_pi.pdf
Reason #2: Vaccines are not 100% effective
“I find it interesting that there exists an incredible double standard when it comes to ‘our’ evidence versus ‘theirs’. The proponents of vaccination safety can just say they are safe, without any supporting evidence what-so-ever, and it will be accepted without questions. They can announce that mercury is not only safe, but that it seems to actually increase the IQ and we are to accept it.”
Russell Blaylock MD, Neurosurgeon, 'Vaccines, Neurodevelopmental and Autism Spectrum Disorders'
“All vaccines only provide temporary immunity.” http://nvic.org
One of the arguments used by proponents of vaccines is “Not vaccinating endangers the lives of babies and infants too young to vaccinate or sick children that are unable to be vaccinated.”
Even if you do decide to vaccinate your child, there is no guarantee that your child will not get the disease or become a carrier of the disease. In fact a vaccinated child is more at risk to a vulnerable baby or child because they often are vaccinated with a LIVE VIRUS vaccine. Many of these vaccines also have a shedding period where the virus can be exposed to others. This explains why many of the outbreaks we hear about in the media are usually started with recently vaccinated children. The current Pertussis outbreak has over 80% of VACCINATED patients being diagnosed with Pertussis. The Varicella (chickenpox) vaccine has a known 20% failure rate. http://www.whale.to/vaccines/hancock.html
This information doesn’t give me the confidence that I need to justify the statement “The benefits outweigh the risks.” There is a lot of risk involved with vaccinating and no clear guarantee that my child will be disease free.
"The findings of efficacy studies have not demonstrated a direct correlation between antibody response and protection against pertussis disease. Antibody studies are useful to compare amount of response elicited by different vaccines under different conditions or in different groups. Thus, efficacy studies are required to measure clinical protection conferred by each pertussis vaccine. MMWR
Mumps Outbreak, April 19, 2006: Report from Julie Gerberding: "In addition, although this is a very good vaccine, it is not perfect. About 10 percent of people who get both doses of the vaccine still remain [susceptible] to mumps. So if you are in a community of 10,000 people and 10 percent of the people who got both doses of the vaccine are susceptible, once you get a little outbreak going in that community, that means that up to 1,000 people in the community would actually come down with mumps even though they were properly immunized with what we know is a very good vaccine." CDC Press Release
Oregon, Chickenpox Outbreak October 2001. Chickenpox Outbreak in a Highly Vaccinated School Population. A chickenpox outbreak occurred in a school in which 97% of students without a prior history of chickenpox were vaccinated. Students vaccinated >5 years before the outbreak were at risk for breakthrough disease. Pediatrics Vol. 113 No. 3 March 2004, pp. 455-459
Mumps Outbreak, 1995: Between October 3 and November 23, 1990, clinical mumps developed in 54 students; 53 had been vaccinated. Cheek et al. "Mumps outbreak in a highly vaccinated school population". Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med; 149: 774-778
Tennessee, Mumps Outbreak 1991. 99.6 percent of schoolchildren in Maury County, Tennessee met vaccination requirements for mumps. "Mumps outbreak traced to vaccine failure" (Medical) JournalWatch
Measles Outbreak 1987: An outbreak of measles in secondary school with more than 99 percent vaccination rate and more than 95 percent of students have measles antibody (vaccine immunity.) Gustafson et al. "Measles outbreak in a fully immunized secondary-school population", NEJM; 3216: 771-774
Measles Outbreak 1987: Nknowane BM et al. Measles outbreak in a vaccinated (70%) school population: epidemiology, chains of transmission and the role of vaccine failure": Am J Pub Health;77:434-438.1987
Measles Outbreak 1972: Twenty-four cases of measles occurred in a school in which 89% of children were immunized or had had natural disease; 19 of these cases were vaccine failures. Cherry JD et al. "Urban measles in the vaccine era: a clinical, epidemiologic, and serologic study". J Pediatrics; 81(2): 217- 230
Reason #3: Vaccines have not been tested for safety
There are no control group studies. Authorities consider that “to not vaccinate” is unethical and have refused to study unvaccinated volunteers. If control studies were done according to honest science, vaccination would be outlawed.
Studies which have been done are not designed to eliminate the examiners bias. Authorities who compile and report disease statistics work closely with and have a vested interest in companies which produce vaccines. In other countries, this kind of bias is not tolerated. Injuries and deaths in these studies are attributed to anything but vaccination to skew the results and make it appear that vaccines have some merit.” http://www.sayingnotovaccines.com/
“Carcinogenicity--We have done no testing for the carcinogenicity of MF-59 or any of our vaccines. We haven’t done it and we don’t plan to.”
Dr. Novicki, Scientist, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, F.D.A.-N.I.H. Meeting 12/2008
“How can you have a product on the market where you do not provide proper liver toxicity data?”
Vijendra Singh, Ph D Research Associate Professor, Neuroimmunology, Dept. of Biology, Utah State University
“Not a single vaccine has ever been tested for (links to) cancer.”
Rebecca Carley MD, Surgeon, Court Qualified VIDS Expert
“Incredible as it sounds a controlled study comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated children has never been done in America for any vaccination...The only explanation for this is bias and political pressure...This means that vaccination is essentially a large scale experiment in our nation’s children.”
Dr. Philip Incao MD Hepatitis B Vaccine Testimony, 1999
Reason #5: Unnecessary Vaccines
Why are we vaccinating children for diseases that are not considered “deadly diseases”? Why are we injecting newborns with ANYTHING the day they are born for a disease they can’t possibly get as a baby and is so incredibly toxic? Most American newborns are vaccinated with HepB before they are released from the hospital.
“Hepatitis b is a liver disease caused by a virus with the same name. The infection may be acute or chronic and symptoms can include fever, malaise, fatigue, jaundice, abdominal tenderness, and elevated liver enzymes. While a person can be quite ill with this infection, the treatment is supportive and aimed at providing comfort. The vast majority of patients recover within eight weeks of an acute episode of the infection without any long term complications.
Parents are told that hepatitis b is a potentially life-threatening illness. What they are not told is the real risk of serious complications from the disease and that it is very unlikely their child will contract it.”
"Hepatitis A is transmitted orally, and its incubation period is about 15 to 45 days. The disease is usually mild, and many times, recognizable clinical disease does not occur at all, particularly in children under 5 years of age. In one study, 84% of infections in children under 2 years of age were asymptomatic, 50% in 3 and 4 years of age and 20% in 5 years of age and older. If infection occurs later in life, after puberty or in adulthood, clinical disease can be expected in 50 to 80% of infected individuals. Hepatitis A never develops into chronic liver disease." ~ “Vaccines” Textbook by Stan Plotkin, MD, long-time pro-vaccine advocate.
“Influenza transmission can be prevented or reduced in home and health care settings with hand washing, masking, and separating sick and healthy persons.”
“Influenza viruses constantly evolve and, depending upon the year, the flu shot may or may not match strains associated with reported influenza cases.”
“The influenza vaccine is less than 70 percent effective in preventing influenza, and like all pharmaceutical products, use of influenza vaccine is not without risk of vaccine injury.”
“The vast majority of children recover from chickenpox disease and do not suffer complications. They are left with a qualitatively superior immunity to the disease.”
“The chickenpox vaccine only gives temporary immunity and leaves older children and adults vulnerable to chickenpox later in life when complications can be much more serious. Mass use of the chickenpox vaccine by children has eliminated the opportunity for natural asymptomatic boosting of immunity in adults and left adults vulnerable to shingles later in life.”
Reason #6: Conflict of interest between drug manufacturers, doctors, CDC, and FDA
I have repeatedly heard proponents of vaccines say that all kinds of studies were done to refute the paper from Andrew Wakefield that started this whole vaccine controversy. The reality behind these so called studies is that every one of them was funded by a vaccine manufacturer. Below you will see a link (Fourteen Studies) to studies that have been used to support the assertion that vaccines do not cause autism. The second link is a CBS news story that questions the conflict of interest with vaccine defenders. The third link is a report from 1999 on Government Reform initiated to investigate the federal vaccine policy for possible conflicts of interest.
Fourteen Studies...
How Independent are Vaccine Defenders?
Conflicts of Interest in Vaccine Policy Making
Reason #7: Many childhood diseases can be treated with homeopathic remedies, antibiotics and/or home remedies.
Two books that I have in my home library for easy reference are:
“Raising A Vaccine Free Child” by Wendy Lydall
“Natural Baby & Childcare” by Dr. Lauren Feder, MD
Both of these books have a massive amount of information on how to treat childhood illnesses using natural home remedies such as diet, nutrition, and supplements as well as homeopathic remedies for indicated symptoms.
It is also highly recommended to read up and be informed of how to recognize childhood illnesses such as measles, whooping cough, mumps, and even chickenpox. Know what the signs and symptoms are as well as the best way to treat these illnesses immediately and when it’s time to get help from your pediatrician.
Good health for my family is very important to me and can contribute to the body being able to fight off illness or be able to recover quickly to sickness. I made sure that I breastfed my daughter exclusively for the first 6 months of her life and continue to breastfeed well into her 3rd year. As a mother who enjoys cooking I make it a high priority to prepare good quality food made from organic products, whole foods whenever possible, avoiding the overuse of processed foods, take-out foods, and restaurant foods. My family sees a chiropractor on a monthly basis to keep our immune systems in tip top shape, and we take daily supplements of Vitamin C & probiotics as well as consume plenty of water and dark leafy greens every day.
Reason #8: People contract the disease FROM the vaccine
5 of the vaccines ((measles, mumps, rubella, polio, and varicella) administered are LIVE virus vaccines and can sometimes infect the recipient. Those vaccines also have what is known as a shedding period where the virus can be passed to others. http://vaccineinfo.net/immunization/vaccine_facts.shtml
Many proponents of vaccines or people who simply have never had reason to research vaccines have repeatedly urged me to at least vaccinate my daughter for polio. They rationalize that polio isn’t considered a harmless childhood disease that would provide them with lifelong immunity, but a crippling killer of children. The following is direct quote from the CDC website regarding polio. This was quite eye opening for me.
POLIO: “The last cases of naturally occurring paralytic polio in the United States were in 1979, when an outbreak occurred among the Amish in several Midwestern states. From 1980 through 1999, there were 162 confirmed cases of paralytic polio cases reported. Of the 162 cases, eight cases were acquired outside the United States and imported. The last imported case caused by wild poliovirus into the United States was reported in 1993. The remaining 154 cases were vaccine-associated paralytic polio (VAPP) caused by live oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV).” ~CDC website: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/polio/dis-faqs.htm
Reason #9: More vaccines have not made our children healthier
The US administers more vaccines than any other country in the world and still our infant mortality rate is ranked at #47 worldwide. Why is that? We have given up the diseases of the past like Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Whooping Cough, and even Polio for autoimmune diseases and chronic illnesses and disabilities. When I was a child in the 70’s I was give a total of 10 vaccinations. Now that number is up around 68 and growing. Vaccine manufacturers continue to develop more and more vaccines and intend to keep adding them to the vaccine schedule.











BASIC FACTS TO KNOW ABOUT VACCINATIONS
1. Vaccines are toxic.
*Vaccines contain substances poisonous to humans (i.e. mercury, formaldehyde, aluminum, etc.) Vaccine package inserts contain this and other information required by law to be disclosed to the public. Although these inserts are produced for consumers, doctors do not make them available to their patients.
*Vaccines are grown on and contain foreign tissue and altered genetic material of both human and animal origin.
2. Immunization (the act of injecting vaccines) depresses and disables brain and immune function. Honest, unbiased scientific investigation has shown vaccinations to be a causative factor in many illnesses including:
*Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (aka SIDS, crib or cot death)
*developmental disorders (autism, seizures, mental retardation, hyperactivity, dyslexia, etc.)
*immune deficiency (i.e. AIDS, Epstein Barre Syndrome, etc.)
*degenerative disease (i.e. muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, cancer, leukemia, lupus, fibromyalgia, etc.)
3. The high rate of adverse vaccine reactions is being ignored and denied by conventional medicine.
*Prior to 1990, doctors were not legally required to report adverse reactions to the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
*Adverse reactions are considered "normal", are ignored or diagnosed as other diseases. Even with this poor system, reported damage is substantial.
*Despite their current legal obligation, less than 10% of doctors report the damage they witness to the CDC.
*Throughout history, many prominent medical and non-medical health professionals around the world have voiced their vehement opposition to vaccination calling it scientific fraud.
4. Mass Vaccination Programs systematically and recklessly endanger the public while disregarding our rights.
*Since vaccination breaks the skin, it is technically a surgery. All surgeries by law require informed consent. Informed consent is rarely attained before vaccines are administered.
*Doctors vaccinate the unwitting and uninformed. The vaccine manufacturers' package inserts which contain biased industry claims and the bare minimum required by law to reveal are not routinely made available to consumers so that they can make a more informed choice.
*Double-talk and unethical enforcement such as threats, intimidation and coercion are used to ensure vaccination compliance.
5. There is no proof that vaccinations are safe or effective.
*There are no control group studies. Authorities consider that "to not vaccinate" is unethical and have refused to study unvaccinated volunteers. If control studies were done according ' to honest science, vaccination would be outlawed.
*Studies which have been done are not designed to eliminate the examiners bias. Authorities who compile and report disease statistics work closely with and have a vested interest in companies which produce the vaccines. In other industries, this kind of bias is not tolerated. Injuries and deaths in these studies are attributed to anything but vaccination to skew the results and make it appear that vaccines have some merit.
6. Laws allow drug companies to violate the public trust.
*In private vaccine damage suits, information is revealed condemning vaccines as deadly.
*Vaccine manufacturers use "gag orders" as a leverage tool in vaccine damage legal settlements to restrict the plaintiff from disclosing to the public the truth about the dangerous nature of vaccines. Our government has allowed these unethical tactics to be used which jeopardize public welfare.
7. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1987 is a pacifier.
*This compensation program pretends to acknowledge the existence of vaccine damage by making "right" the wrongs done. Nothing in this Act attempts to avert these adverse events from happening in the future.
*This Act is the result of vaccine producers pressuring the government to "immunize" them from private lawsuits which can run an average of $4 million per case.
*The fund is made up of tax added into the cost to the consumer of each vaccine, thereby making vaccine consumers pay for one another's and perhaps their own injury; the vaccine manufacturers have made themselves quite "immune" from accountability. In recent years it has become even more difficult to be compensated through this program due to the parameters for determining vaccine damage changing and coroners now ruling out vaccine damage and charging the parents with Shaken Baby Syndrome.
8. Private insurance companies, which do the best liability studies, have totally abandoned coverage for damage to life and property due to:
*Acts of God
*Nuclear war and nuclear power plant accidents
*Vaccination
9. Vaccination is not emergency medicine.
*It is claimed that vaccines avert a possible future risk and yet people are pressured to decide on the spot. A doctor's use of fear and intimidation to force compliance is not ethical. Vaccines are drugs with potential serious adverse reactions. Time and forethought should be given before a decision is made.
10. There is no law enforcing vaccination for babies or anyone else.
*Vaccination is linked with school attendance but is not compulsory. Exemptions from vaccinations, although restricted and monitored, are part of every state public health law and can be expanded by public pressure.
*Departments of Health, Education and the American Medical Association personnel profit from the sale of vaccines. They keep the existence of and details about exemptions relatively unknown.

http://www.ageofautism.com/2013/07/vaccines-benefits-outweigh-risks-implies-children-injured-by-vaccines-are-expendable.html
  • The CDC had the Institute of Medicine convene a committee to study the childhood vaccine schedule; it "expressed support for the childhood immunization schedule as a tool to protect against vaccine preventable diseases," yet urges further safety study… but not a vaccinated/unvaccinated study.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court has declared that vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe.”

Cancer virus in polio vaccine

Not all doses of IPV were contaminated. It has been estimated that 10–30 million people actually received a vaccine that contained SV40.

Monday, March 18, 2013

March 18--take 2

Okay, so all is not lost.  I have been busy.  My house is tidy, kitchen is clean, kids are fed and dressed.  My Kuerig is even descaled.  Apparently you're supposed to do that every 3-6 months, this is the first time I've done it since I got it 2 years ago.  I think this is worth bonus points.  It no longer makes crazy noise when it's making coffee. 

I again had to make room for my friend's kids to sleep in the office, so the floor has been cleared again.  I guess I am overwhelmed because I have nowhere to put stuff while I'm "organizing."  I wish this came more naturally to me.  I wish I was not so easily distracted.  BUT, I have other redeeming qualities.  I'm creative and friendly.  Once upon a time I had a friend/life coach who said I was an otter.  It's apparently a kind of person.  Creative, friendly, outgoing.  Things take a backseat to people.  I think that's pretty accurate. 

Before I ramble, I wanted to end on a high note.  So, I commit to doing SOMETHING before this day is over.  Stay tuned for tomorrow's post to see what it is.  :-)

March 18

I'm getting nowhere.  A month is too long, I keep procrastinating.  At the end of the month I'll be scrambling...

Monday, March 11, 2013

Day 2

Day 2 is happening about a week late.  I'm a master procrastinator, which also runs in my family.  But, as a result of procrastinating the office, the rest of my house looks pretty good.  It's amazing how motivated I find myself to do other productive things when I feel guilty for not cleaning what I have committed to cleaning.

Well, since the rest of the house is cleanish, I got to work on the office this morning.  I decided the easiest thing to start with is to clear a place on the floor to work in.  This is the room I blow-dry my hair in, and I am 5 months postpartum, so there was a wig's worth of hair on everything.  I vacuumed, and the progress thus far is invigorating. 

A few weeks ago, my husband was looking for something, and I brought out an old trunk of stuff we haven't looked at since before kids were born I think.  I emptied it out, since obviously we didn't need that junk if we didn't miss it all these years.  It made me smile to remember what a great mom I have, as she had lined the trunk with a pretty floral paper for me when I left for college.  She's a pretty organized chick, especially for being quite a hoarder herself. 

The biggest pile of stuff was 18 month boy clothes, so I put those in the trunk.  There was still room, so I also put smaller boy clothes in there too.  There's still room, so I hope to fit 24 month and 2T boy stuff when the time comes. 

I unearthed Elena's school valentines from a month ago, got rid of all the cards (I hope she doesn't find out!) and stashed the candy for rewards for later.  I also pared down some baby clothes that are outgrown.  We have a ton, and a lot of it is not being used this time around, so I've decided to not be emotionally attached and to hopefully bless someone else who needs them.  A couple months ago, I donated a ton of maternity clothes and baby clothes and NB diapers to the local crisis pregnancy center.  They were very thankful, and it felt really good to get that stuff out of my house and hopefully it'll help someone in need.  Plus, it's a tax-deductible donation, so it'll help us out next year on our taxes. 

I threw away a wrecked project that Elena and I put together.  It was a foam castle.  Sherm got a hold of it and smashed it.  Elena was devastated, and I told her we'd fix it, but I really didn't want to.  It doesn't do anything, it's not a toy and it really just takes up space.  But I feel guilty because she loved it, and it represented time we spent together.  It makes me wonder if I'll always feel guilty getting rid of useless stuff. 

Day 1

"You can rid yourself of hoarding habits by trying to hoard open space."

Okay then, that sounds easy enough.  I've got the hoarding tendencies, both my parents and my only living grandma have lots of stuff.  LOTS of stuff.  My grandma has an extra HOUSE full of stuff, along with 4 or 5 sheds.  My dad bought a trailer house to keep stuff in.  I'm going to try to utilize this tendency and hoard space. 

Previously, I hoarded baby clothes, craft stuff (knitting, crocheting, yarn, beads, sewing material, jewelry making supplies, scrapbooking junk), and anything I MIGHT need in the future.  Even boxes!!  I have a crapload of empty boxes. 

Saturday, March 2, 2013

In the beginning...

While browsing my Facebook feed yesterday, I stumbled upon an organizing challenge from Organizing Junkie.  I looked around and got a little excited.  My once beautiful office has turned into the mom cave/craft room/storage room/junk room. 

Step one of the challenge is to post "before" pictures.  Hopefully at the end of the 30-day challenge, I'll be proud to show you the "after" pictures.  So, here goes.

The first picture is the doorway into the room.  To the right is an infrequently used garbage can.  Forward is a dresser and a chest of drawers.  And boxes, empty and full.  And a carseat that would be better used in a car...


This second picture is the floor in the middle of the room.  I'm actually kind of proud because, this looks better than it used to, simply because we had friends over the other night and their kids needed someplace to sleep, so I cleared some stuff out of the way.  There's no motivator like people coming over.

 
 
 Thirdly, the desk to the right of my desk.  Yes, two desks.  One for junk, obviously.

 

 A view of the desk and some "storage" to the left.  Is that Pinterest open on my computer?  Whoops.  I guess looking at people's organizing pins got me somewhat motivated too.  On the right is the computer that doesn't work anymore.


Last, this is the jumbled mess from another angle.  The clothes on the dresser are outgrown clothes of my 6 year old girl child, 3 year old boy child and 5 month old girl baby.


This pretty much sums up my brain at this point.  Lots of thoughts of growing children, work, crafty ideas and wannabe hostess with the mostess.

A thought jumbling around in the mess of my mind is that today I want to start being the person I want to be. No more procrastinating being a better person.  My children and husband deserve a peaceful environment and I deserve it too.  I would love for my younger daughter to never know what it's like to live in a disorganized pile of stuff.  I know that's a pretty high hope, but pretty much any step I take is a step up from where I am.