A guest post by someone I admire a lot: Marcella Piper-Terry

In 1978, my (then) husband bought a used 1976 Ford Pinto for me to drive back and forth to work. It was cheap on gas and very affordable. I was 3 months into my first pregnancy; I didn’t have any babies yet, so the small size and two-door design were not a problem.
It was light metallic silver in color.

Within a month of purchasing the Pinto, I was in two separate accidents.

The first accident occurred when I was struck broadside (on the passenger side) when a woman pulled out from a stop sign. She said she didn’t see me. It was an overcast day and the color of the car may have had something to do with it, since it did kind of blend in with the color of the road. The entire passenger side of the car was damaged, and it was in the shop for 3 weeks.

The day after I got the car out of the shop, I was on my way to work. I was running late, and had just passed a car on the two-lane highway that I drove every day as I traveled from home to work and back again. I was going about 60 mph when I looked down and saw a bee crawling up my thigh. I am allergic to bees. For me, it might just as well have been a snake. Panic took over, and instead of slowing to a stop and getting out of the car (as I would now), I swiped at the bee with my right hand, trying to knock it off and hoping it would fly out the window. When I swiped with my right hand, my left hand, which was on the steering wheel, followed suit and I ended up off the side of the road. I looked up and saw a telephone pole in front of me and jerked the wheel to the left, which sent me across the highway and into a ditch. I walked away from the accident. The front end of the car was badly damaged. I don’t know what happened to the bee, but I wasn’t stung. Within 24 hours I started bleeding and a week later, I lost the baby. I was 4 months pregnant and went through 7 hours of labor.

We got rid of the Pinto.

What neither of us knew at the time is that there was a fatal design flaw in that car. It had nothing to do with my two accidents, but that design flaw did end up killing somewhere between 27-180 people, depending on which report one reads.

I survived the crashes in my Pinto because the impacts in my accidents were sustained on the side and the front of the car. If I had been hit from behind, I might not be here.

The memory of my month as a Ford Pinto owner has been flashing in my mind over the last few days. It came to me as I was thinking about how people make statements about vaccine-injury; specifically, “My children are fully vaccinated and they don’t have autism. Therefore, vaccines do not cause autism.”

I drove a 1976 Ford Pinto. I was in two accidents; both of which could have been deadly. I survived. The reason I survived is because not ALL of the factors were right to produce a fatal outcome. That doesn’t mean it didn’t happen to those people who died.

Because this all kept coming to me over the last few days, I did a search yesterday and found this YouTube clip about the Ford Pinto Case, posted by ethics workshop:

Ford knew about the design flaw and they decided to go forward with the production of the Pinto without fixing it because it would have cost $11 per car to implement a new design. That cost would have been passed along to buyers, with the increase added to the purchase price. Ford opted not to fix the problem in order to keep the cost lower, thereby benefiting the larger number of customers, while placing a smaller number of buyers at serious risk.

“There’s going to be a lot of suffering, but only for a very few people.” 

Does that sound familiar?

“The benefits of vaccination to society outweigh the risks of serious adverse reactions to those relatively few people who suffer them.”

During the process of determining whether or not to fix the Pinto’s design problem, Ford looked at the issue from a monetary perspective. They calculated the probable number of deaths (180) and severe burn injuries (180), and the amount of money they would have to pay for each. In 1970, the United States Government placed the value of a human life at $200,000. With inflation, that number would be $1.2 Million today.

As I watched and listened to the Pinto Case video, I couldn’t help drawing the parallels with the vaccine industry and with the Institute of Medicine’s decision in 2004, not to pursue research that would identify which groups of children are more vulnerable to serious vaccine-injury. They know those children exist. They have chosen not to look for them, making the decision instead to protect the vaccine program at all costs.

There are a lot of things that really bother me about this, but as I sit here trying not to make this into a novel, here are the top three…

1. In 1970, the U.S. Government valued human life at $200,000. In today’s dollars, that would be $1.2 MILLION. Yet, when a vaccine kills someone, the maximum amount that can be recovered through the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is $250,000.
2. When Ford’s product killed someone, Ford paid for the damage. When a vaccine kills someone, taxpayers pay. The government has chosen to protect vaccine manufacturers from liability. Therefore, there is no incentive for them to make a safer product.
3. In the 1970s, gasoline shortages were pushing gas prices higher. There were long lines at the pumps. There was talk of rationing gas. That’s why Ford made the Pinto in the first place. (Japanese car makers were also beating Ford to the punch and they wanted to cash in on the opportunity.) Everyone was encouraged to use less, drive less, and conserve.
Thankfully, the government didn’t mandate everyone to drive a Ford Pinto.

Vaccines are unavoidably unsafe (Supreme Court, 2011).
Some people are at increased risk of death and disability from vaccines, but those people have been deemed “acceptable collateral damage” by our government agencies.
The government has known for at least a year about allegations of fraud and destruction of evidence at The CDC.
TinyURL.com/PoseyTellsCongress  

They are choosing NOT to act and NOT to investigate, while laws to increase mandatory vaccination of all children are increasing at record speed.

Is your child at increased risk of vaccine-injury?
The only way for you to know is to research for yourself and take responsibility for the decisions you make on behalf of your child.
No one else is going to do it.
If you make the wrong choice, you will be on your own.

Here is a post I wrote on VaxTruth, which may be helpful:
http://vaxtruth.org/2015/02/my-child-at-risk/

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#HearUs
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#ParentsDoTheWork

Blog compiler: Becky Hastings, wife, mother, grandmother, passionate follower of Jesus and truth. As a life & wellness coach, Becky seeks to inspire and motivate others to find increased energy, joy, and longevity. Navigating information to achieve long-term health goals in every area of life is a passion! Becky writes, speaks, and shares information hoping to educate parents on the anomalies and contradictions in the vaccine debate.