KNOCKED DOWN BY THE FLU
Well, the good old H1N1 flu got us. It took us down in waves. First the kids for a week and then the adults for a week. Fever, chills, aches, coughs, nausea, the works. It was bad and don’t get me wrong here, I don’t particularly enjoy the flu.
WAIT A MINUTE, IT’S JUST THE FLU!
But here’s where I have to say, IT’S JUST THE FLU! And what is the big scary deal about getting the flu? Come on, people! Yes, some people have died from the flu. But thousands of people die from the flu each year, just in the area I live. Here are some stats I read in the newspaper a few weeks ago…last year 1500 people died from the flu. So far this year, 2 people have died from H1N1 and the people who are dying always have some other underlying condition. In other words, they’re not just dying from the flu. It’s from the other condition that they have.
YOU STILL GET THE FLU, EVEN WITH THE FLU VACCINE
And now a word or two about the flu vaccine. Here’s the thing, every single person I talked to who got the flu vaccine, came down with the flu immediately afterward. And then they exposed everyone around them to the flu as well. Now according to the research, the previous flu vaccines DID NOT STOP YOU FROM GETTING THE FLU, they only shortened your flu by 4 hours. Did you know that? Most people don’t.
RESEARCH DOES NOT SUPPORT VACCINES
According to the Cochrane Collaboration (an international non-profit dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare interventions readily available worldwide and who conduct high quality systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions) they conclude, after extensive research, that: “The universal immunization of healthy adults should achieve a number of specific goals: reducing the spread of the disease, reducing the economic loss due to working days lost and reducing morbidity and hospitalization.” None of these goals have been demonstrated in the available RCT evidence. Clinical implications: “Universal immunization of healthy adults is not supported by the results of this review.”
VACCINES ARE WATERED DOWN
The H1N1 flu vaccine has not be researched enough to know all the negative side effects that come from it (except for basically guaranteeing that you will in fact get the flu, only a slightly shorter version of it). Plus, because it has been in such high demand and there was not enough to go around, I have heard doctors actually say that the vaccine was “watered down” in order to get more out of it. Hmmm…… That’s not even taking into account all of the harmful chemicals and preservatives and, well, basically poison that you are injecting into your blood stream. When somebody is making billions of dollars off a product, at some point you have to stop and question their motives and do your own research, not just blindly accept the foder they feed to you that preys on your fears.
BUT I’M IMMUNIZED, RIGHT?
Did you know that if you get all of your vaccines mixed together and injected at the same time that your body will think it is one illness? In other words, if you get the Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine and then by chance you are exposed to Measles at some other time, well guess what? You’re probably going to get sick. Why? Because your body will only provide you with immunity if you are exposed to Measles, Mumps and Rubella at the exact same time. Now what are the chances of that happening?
But don’t worry, you probably won’t get measles anyways (just as long as you eat your fruits and veggies) because measles is linked to lack of Vitamin A. Which is why some poor, malnourished nations still get a lot of measles outbreaks despite being vaccinated.
But if you’re still keen on vaccinating, single dose vaccines spread out at different times makes a huge difference.
MY DAUGHTER’S REACTION TO VACCINES
When Isabela, my first daughter, was born, I didn’t really do any research into vaccines. I just went along with what my doctor said, and gave her the 2 month old dose of vaccinations. We came home and she cried and screamed the whole night. Then the whole week. And then after that she became a much more irritable, fussy baby. Soon after that she started throwing up more often and developed a runny nose and a cold that did not go away for 3 months and FINALLY, I thought to myself, “Something is wrong. A cold does not last for 3 months!”
My mother suggested that maybe the excess mucous was caused by a lactose allergy, so I went off of cow’s milk and after two weeks her runny nose went away (my baby was only breastfeeding at the time, so what I was eating was what was making her sick.)
When I reflect upon Isabela’s experience with vaccines, obviously I can not blame everything on them, but what is clear to me is that it severely compromised her immune system, triggering and onset of numerous allergies (which may or may not have developed on their own without the vaccines) and it made her so uncomfortable and in pain that she cried for a whole week, and then just cried a lot more easily than before.
ARE YOU ALLERGIC TO EGGS?
If this had, on the other hand, been Diego, my three year old, who had received the vaccines as a baby, he would have had a massive reaction due to his egg allergy. (Did you know that they grow the illness on eggs and so part of it the egg is transferred into the vaccine?) Have you ever had a doctor ask you if your child had an egg allergy before you got a vaccine? Not in my experience.
BYPASSING OUR FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE
Since then I have done a lot more reading and research on vaccines. The thing that seems the most important to me is that our immune system has several lines of defense to ward off illnesses. By injecting vaccines directly into the blood stream, you are bypassing so many of the body’s natural lines of defense. First the nostril hairs, then the nose or mouth, the stomach, the intestines, and if the disease is still kicking around, then it goes into our blood stream, but is then attacked by white blood cells. If our immune system is healthy, we will not catch the illness.
HOW TO NOT GET SICK: SLEEP
A study conducted by “British immunologists asked volunteers to inhale a noseful of aerosol containing common cold virus. Ten percent of those exposed resisted infection entirely. Another 30% were asymptomatic despite infection, 30% got a mild cold, and 30% got a bad cold. Statistical analysis of the subjects’ diet, exercise routines, smoking habits, stress levels, and other heath-related items revealed that one of the most significant factors in determining whether someone caught the common cold was how much sleep he go the night before exposure.” (p.77 in To Kindle a Soul, by Lawrence Kelemen – great book!)
1 IN 10 GET SERIOUSLY ILL FROM VACCINE
Now, supposedly vaccines are supposed to give you immunity to diseases, by giving you a small amount of the illness, small enough that the body is supposed to fight it off and create antibodies to protect it later on. But one in ten children develop mild or serious cases of the actual illness their body is supposed to fight off.
THE LINK TO AUTISM
The link of vaccines to autism is one of the most compelling reasons for me not to vaccinate. There is a lot of media controversy around this, but thousands of parents and doctors will attest to this connection. But when the pharmaceutic companies are making BILLIONS of dollars off vaccines, it is in their best interest to make people believe that there is no link. A good friend of mine has a 7 year old son who was a completely healthy, normal 2 year old, and immediately after the MMR vaccine developed autism, most likely due to the high doses of thimerosal (mercury) in the vaccines. She recommended this book, “What your doctor may not tell you about childhood vaccination.”
VACCINES ARE A CHOICE
One other thing. Vaccines are a choice in Canada and most other countries around the world. As in, not mandatory. You cannot legally be denied entrance to school or daycare or a job or anything because of not being vaccinated.
A FEW GOOD WEBSITES
http://www.novaccine.com/
http://thinktwice.com/
http://vran.org/
TWO GREAT VIDEOS
“Vaccine Nation”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6696666502913965744#docid=6531447125053615129
“Vaccination: The Hidden Truth”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6696666502913965744
TWO INTERESTING ARTICLES ABOUT H1N1 VACCINE
“What’s in Your H1N1 Flu Vaccine?”
http://www.straight.com/article-270843/vancouver/whats-your-vaccine
“H1N1 Pandemic or Panic?”
http://www.commonground.ca/iss/221/cg221_cassels.shtml