Quote:Maybe this is why people have concerns about vaccines.  Here are some interesting vaccine testimonies from real parents, not the information spoon fed to us by the companies that make billions from vaccines.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3IMSUApeW4

 

Autism, allergies, SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), etc.  And this doesn't mean vaccines cause these diseases, it means they likely contribute to these diseases.  Just like no one thing causes cancer, it is normally a combination of causes.  Vaccines may push a child in danger of these diseases over the edge.

 

Most of the testimony seems to show that the children were predisposed to allergic reactions to the vaccines, not that the vaccines caused the damage. It's known that a micropercentage of the population will have an adverse outcome. Does that mean that we put millions at risk for the safety of a few?


 

Ingredients like aluminum, thimerosal (contains mercury), formaldehyde, etc. are the most concerning. List of ingredients in different vaccines

 

The trace amounts of those chemicals found in vaccines are insufficient to cause harm. Too much of anything can be toxic, even water. Thimerosal is made with an organicmercurial compound that contains Ethyl Mercury not Methyl Mercury commonly used in thermometers and other industrial uses. Ethyl Mercury has been toxicity tested for an adverse outcome at 20 Milligrams. The amount in a vaccine is less than 1/1000th of this amount. Even so, every vaccine on the schedule is now available in a thimerosal free version. Most of the concerns about vaccine ingredients are unfounded and used as scare tactics as these ingredients often occur naturally in larger concentrations in items we willingly ingest. If you eat an organic pear today you will ingest almost 10 times the amount of Formaldehyde as is found in any vaccine, I don't see anyone protesting pears.


 

And the fact that a National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program exists http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/index.html is the government itself admitting vaccines can and do cause injuries and that families are being compensated for those injuries, that is if they connect the dots.

 

As I said in my first response, adverse outcomes are a calculated risk and the government instituted the NVICP to protect against those infrequent outcomes putting the industry out of business. For instance, it's thought that a live-virus HIV vaccine would have a failure rate of around 2% with half of those giving the virus to the vaccine recipient. If we vaccinated the entire country like we did for Polio, that means that roughly 3,000,000 people would be at risk for contracting live HIV. In the big picture, 98% or 294,000,000 people would be protected from HIV, and that is a worth-while risk to take. Vaccines protect the population, not necessarily the individual.


 

The rate of autism in northeastern Ohio, the largest Amish community in the USA with low rates of vaccination, was 1 in 10,000.  Compared to the rest of the U.S. (1 in 68 depending on where you get your estimate), that is extremely low.    Obviously, this is correlation, not causation, but it should definitely open your eyes.

 

Autism is thought to be a genetic mutation, it follows that a closed community like the Amish would be less likely to suffer the effects of such a mutation.


 

That is all.