You are a warrior Laura. God bless you. If only parents would educate themselves on this vital topic. Sadly, they spend more time decorating their baby's nursery.
It's confounding, isn't it. I think one of the biggest issues is that parents implicitly trust their pediatricians who are all indoctrinated and motivated by money. That trust could prove fatal.
From personal experience (13 years ago)... vaccine skepticism wasn’t as accepted or available until social media and the internet allowed access to more information. We’ve seen censorship in recent years, but my child’s declining health post vaccine paired with access to data proving vaccines were harmful was what eventually convinced me that the vaccines were harmful. When I started researching vaccine approvals and how many were added to the schedule in recent years, I was very vaccine hesitant. I started giving this information to my doctor (who had a chronically ill child himself) and he rejected any discussion out of hand. The knee-jerk refusal for any opposing idea was a red flag, but I thought that maybe he was just busy. But then he’d dive into a discussion on why all vaccines are safe - because he’s never seen an adverse reaction and we’ve been using vaccines for decades. I was shocked that this was his best argument. But, of course, this was after we already had several doses of vaccines administered and it’s simply not something new parents are prepared for. I personally think it’s preying on vulnerable mothers to blindside them during this groggy, hormone adjusting, life-changing time. There is more information out there now and I hope young parents review the pro’s and con’s of vaccines. But I think reaching new parents before the hospital delivery is really important. Otherwise, they won’t have informed consent as most offices administrator the shots and then hand you the info sheet after and deny, deny, deny any adverse event. Maybe a bill on informed consent for new mothers.
I've been a vaccine skeptic since about 1985, when a friend's beautiful, normal, vibrant baby was turned into a near vegetable by a DPT shot. That baby is nearly 40, unable to feed herself or talk, unable to walk, needing 24/7 care. A wasted life for sure. Her parents got a settlement from a big class action lawsuit in the late 1980's, the vax makers claimed it was due to bad batches.
I never had any inkling that I ought to ask what was in the childhood vackzines. None whatsoever. And when the subject ever arose, I naively accepted the explanations that the amount of x, y, or z that was in them was less than what is naturally ingested, etc. Never considered that the vackzines were delivering the substance by an unnatural route, or at cumulatively higher amounts than is naturally ingested. I was so naive.
Parents, in fact all of us, have been so trained over the last hundred years to trust the doctors and to question our own selves, our capacity for healing ourselves, for figuring out what is wrong with ourselves, and so on. THIS is the problem, and not only with health but also with education, with the environment, with government.
One of my 9th grade students remarked (how that matter ever came up I do not remember) that of course parents need to know sex of baby before birth--else how can they decorate the nursery?
For sure. But think what that in-class comment said about his parents' attitudes. I do not think that 9th grade (maybe it was 8th grade, had to be one or the other) devote any time to thinking about this topic.
Parents don't know to be skeptical. Most of us were vackzed as kids without repercussions, at least that we know of. Pediatricians go into peds because they care about kids; the vast majority of them are oblivious about the harms of what they are doing - I mean, the ones who are younger than 40-50 don't likely remember a childhood when "quirky" kids were NOT common in school. Autoimmune, autism, sensory disintegration, learning problems are so normalized that it is the rare pediatrician who pauses to wonder why the explosion over the last generation. Plus, everyone wants to blame the environment and BPA and TV and the like. While those do play important roles, the focus on them allows everyone to continue overlooking the mandated toxins of childhood vackzines.
Parents simply don't know what they don't know. I sure didn't.
Laura,
I thought you, and others, might appreciate my vaccine-related presentation from 2018, titled “Why Is This Legal?”:
https://www.ageofautism.com/2018/11/why-is-this-legal-presentation-on-vaccines-by-laura-hayes.html
Laura Hayes
https://www.ageofautism.com/exclusives.html
You are a warrior Laura. God bless you. If only parents would educate themselves on this vital topic. Sadly, they spend more time decorating their baby's nursery.
Thank you, Laura :)
I agree with what you wrote, and addressed that in this article of mine, titled “Here Is What I Don’t Understand”:
https://www.ageofautism.com/2019/09/here-is-what-i-dont-understand.html
It's confounding, isn't it. I think one of the biggest issues is that parents implicitly trust their pediatricians who are all indoctrinated and motivated by money. That trust could prove fatal.
From personal experience (13 years ago)... vaccine skepticism wasn’t as accepted or available until social media and the internet allowed access to more information. We’ve seen censorship in recent years, but my child’s declining health post vaccine paired with access to data proving vaccines were harmful was what eventually convinced me that the vaccines were harmful. When I started researching vaccine approvals and how many were added to the schedule in recent years, I was very vaccine hesitant. I started giving this information to my doctor (who had a chronically ill child himself) and he rejected any discussion out of hand. The knee-jerk refusal for any opposing idea was a red flag, but I thought that maybe he was just busy. But then he’d dive into a discussion on why all vaccines are safe - because he’s never seen an adverse reaction and we’ve been using vaccines for decades. I was shocked that this was his best argument. But, of course, this was after we already had several doses of vaccines administered and it’s simply not something new parents are prepared for. I personally think it’s preying on vulnerable mothers to blindside them during this groggy, hormone adjusting, life-changing time. There is more information out there now and I hope young parents review the pro’s and con’s of vaccines. But I think reaching new parents before the hospital delivery is really important. Otherwise, they won’t have informed consent as most offices administrator the shots and then hand you the info sheet after and deny, deny, deny any adverse event. Maybe a bill on informed consent for new mothers.
I've been a vaccine skeptic since about 1985, when a friend's beautiful, normal, vibrant baby was turned into a near vegetable by a DPT shot. That baby is nearly 40, unable to feed herself or talk, unable to walk, needing 24/7 care. A wasted life for sure. Her parents got a settlement from a big class action lawsuit in the late 1980's, the vax makers claimed it was due to bad batches.
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I never had any inkling that I ought to ask what was in the childhood vackzines. None whatsoever. And when the subject ever arose, I naively accepted the explanations that the amount of x, y, or z that was in them was less than what is naturally ingested, etc. Never considered that the vackzines were delivering the substance by an unnatural route, or at cumulatively higher amounts than is naturally ingested. I was so naive.
Parents, in fact all of us, have been so trained over the last hundred years to trust the doctors and to question our own selves, our capacity for healing ourselves, for figuring out what is wrong with ourselves, and so on. THIS is the problem, and not only with health but also with education, with the environment, with government.
One of my 9th grade students remarked (how that matter ever came up I do not remember) that of course parents need to know sex of baby before birth--else how can they decorate the nursery?
I liked when it was a surprise and the nursery was gender neutral.
If you were fortunate enough to have 'a nursery' to decorate at all. It is still a surprise if you choose to have it so.
One cannot make shit like this up.
For sure. But think what that in-class comment said about his parents' attitudes. I do not think that 9th grade (maybe it was 8th grade, had to be one or the other) devote any time to thinking about this topic.
Parents don't know to be skeptical. Most of us were vackzed as kids without repercussions, at least that we know of. Pediatricians go into peds because they care about kids; the vast majority of them are oblivious about the harms of what they are doing - I mean, the ones who are younger than 40-50 don't likely remember a childhood when "quirky" kids were NOT common in school. Autoimmune, autism, sensory disintegration, learning problems are so normalized that it is the rare pediatrician who pauses to wonder why the explosion over the last generation. Plus, everyone wants to blame the environment and BPA and TV and the like. While those do play important roles, the focus on them allows everyone to continue overlooking the mandated toxins of childhood vackzines.
Parents simply don't know what they don't know. I sure didn't.