Vaccines currently recommended/mandated for school attendance: • Tetanus: a disease that that is non contagious; • Hepatitis B: a disease not spread easily in a school setting and for which children with active cases of Hepatitis B are allowed to attend school; • Pertussis, Diphtheria, Polio: diseases for which the vaccine is not capable of preventing transmission of infection; • Rubella: a vaccine that has never been studied for clinical effectiveness; • Mumps: a vaccine not efficacious enough to impart the required threshold of herd immunity; • Measles: a vaccine not durable enough to ensure long-term protection of the majority of vaccinated students from developing a modified form of the disease; • Chickenpox: a vaccine not utilized by other developed countries for mass vaccination.
If you look at it this way you see how unreasonable this policy is. The current CDC vaccine policy is not grounded in medical ethics, is not grounded in understanding of what vaccines can and cannot achieve, and cannot be claimed to be founded on ‘science’. Vaccine education currently discounts inconvenient FACTS and protects a multi billion-dollar industry peddling a liability free product. Why?
In this talk Tetyana Obukhanych, PhD uses the CDC’s own studies and other accepted peer reviewed scientific data sources to prove these claims.
Posted by Becky Hastings in the interests of education for parents.
You might have heard this response from someone seeking to rationalize giving vaccines “It’s a gamble every time you get in the car with your children. In fact, car accidents are the leading cause of accidental death for children. Do you plan to stop driving them? Considering cars are 1000 times more dangerous than vaccines, I sure hope so.”
If the car seat and car makers were given immunity from lawsuits and no safety testing had been done for 30 years, then your comparison would be more accurate. Over $4 billion has been paid to compensate vaccine injury & death since 1989. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), charged by Congress with safety testing, recently admitted it has done NONE. No vaccines have been tracked for safety since the companies manufacturing them were given indemnity!! NO combination of vaccines recommended to babies and children have ever been tested for safety – even though we know that multiple drugs can have an overall negative impact. Vaccines are a far bigger gamble than you were told.
Influence of pediatric vaccines on amygdala growth and opioid ligand binding in rhesus macaque infants: A pilot study.Hewitson L1, Lopresti BJ, Stott C, Mason NS, Tomko J. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20628439
Parents, please research vaccines as if your babies life depends on it. Not all babies can safely receive vaccines as currently recommended by your doctor and the CDC.
The Highwire’s ‘Ex-Vax Files’ Series highlights Catie Clobes, mother of three. Catie followed the #CDC’s recommendations, listened to her pediatrician, and less than 48 hours after her 6-month-old daughter Evee’s vaccinations, lost her baby. Refusing to accept a SIDS diagnosis, Catie shares her heart wrenching journey from “pro-vaxxer” to “ex-vaxxer.”
“It’s a sad day for California. And it’s a sad day for our country.”
To the democrats holding office in California: “Why in the world did any of you get into politics if it wasn’t about protecting children?”
Did you see any news reports of Robert Kennedy Jr’s Occupy Sacramento Press Conference on 9 September 2019? The legislative bodies suspended rules to rush through two bills (SB276 & SB714) despite thousands of concerned parents who showed up at the capitol to express strong protest against these bills. Some highlights from Bobbie Kennedy’s speech:
“If we can give government and big industry the right to inject untested medical products with zero liability into our children coercively, where does the power of government end? What else can they order us to do? Abort babies for the good of society? Euthanize people for the good of society? Where is the legal rational boundary? Our country has signed multiple treaties stating that force cannot be used for any medical procedures without informed consent.
“Where are all the auto-immune diseases coming from? If it’s not the vaccines, where is it coming from 12% of my generation had chronic diseases (prior to 1986). Today 54% do. From HHS. The long list of epidemic chronic diseases amongst American children are also listed on the vaccine inserts.
“All of these legislatures here – we went from office to office and talked to every single one of them. We answered every single question. We showed them in black and white the truth. This state is doing something horrendous.
“Environmental issues. A war between large corporations who are trying to treat our planet as if it is a business in liquidation, convert our natural resources to cash, have a few years of pollution based prosperity for themselves and our children are going to have to pay for their joy ride with de-nuded landscapes, poor health, and huge clean up costs which are going to amplify over time and they will never be able to pay. That was my life’s battle. These corporations were commoditizing our landscapes.
“When I got sucked into this issue I saw something a 100 times worse. Not just oil companies trying to pave and commoditize our landscape, but big pharmaceutical companies – the most evil companies on earth – who are commoditizing our children. Who are giving our children this tsunami of chronic diseases and then making money. Telling us they are getting rid of infectious diseases like measles and chicken pox, but trading that for rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes and autism and ADD and ADHD. All of those infectious diseases are treatable and curable yet none of the chronic diseases that they are causing are treatable or curable. They are making $50B selling our kids these mandated vaccines that are untested and liability free, but they are making $500B a year selling them the epi-pens, the seizure medications, the Prozac, the Albuterol inhalers, the rheumatoid arthritis medications, the diabetes medications, that our children are addicted to for life because of these vaccines.
And we went through this with all of these democratic legislators. They knew what they were doing.
A Q&A by David Maxfield from Crucial Skills: How to discuss immunizations with reluctant parents inspired me to write my own Q&A. I have a high regard for their work even though I hold an opposing view on this particular topic. His answer to a question posed by a vaccine promoting health care professional provides valuable insight on how to converse instead of argue. I pose a question from a vaccine informed parent and edited the wording he provided in his answer. If you visit the link please read my comment, and take a minute to leave your own respectful comment!
Dear David,
With the recent rise of hype in the media promoting vaccines and looming mandates, I am concerned children will be harmed as a result.
With 36 yrs exploring this topic, I am troubled by how many ‘experts’ are not more curious about vaccine safety. Has the belief that “vaccines are safe & effective & save millions of lives” been challenged with personal research review by those who hold this view? I don’t understand how they can push a point of view without a thorough examination of what exactly parents are objecting to and why. Parents who witness injury know the case for vaccines is extremely flawed. Many have become experts on vaccine risk, yet may find it difficult to hold a conversation because of their passion.
Public health officials seem more committed to getting vaccines into children than looking into the possible harm. How can I converse about this topic so that all parties involved can discover truth?
Concerned mother, grandmother, researcher, and writer
Dear concerned mother, grandmother, researcher, and writer,
It’s not just vaccines that cause communication breakdowns. We see breakdowns across our culture, which makes your question especially relevant. Some tips that may help your discussions:
You Can’t Win an Argument. It’s a paradox that it becomes harder, instead of easier, to convince someone when you are supremely confident in your own point of view. Many of us have firsthand experience with this reality. Dale Carnegie expanded this insight, “You can’t win an argument.” Here is how a conversation can turn into an argument:
I ask the parent/doctor/nurse why they want to give vaccines or question a vaccine promoter about vaccines.
Reasons are given in support of vaccines.
I attack their reasons and try to add information on vaccine harm.
They attack my points and defend theirs.
I attack theirs and defend mine.
Rinse and repeat.
No one wins
In trying to win an argument I’ve fallen into what’s called the Persuasion Trap. I have become the champion for my cause and pushed the other party into being a champion for the opposite cause. The result is an argumentative cycle no one seems to win – in fact, each person could finish with a strengthened view of his or her own position.
Motivational Interviewing. Motivational Interviewing is an approach that is designed to avoid the Persuasion Trap. Instead of taking sides, it helps the pro vaccine pusher explore and resolve the ambivalence they must feel regarding vaccines. It conveys respect while maintaining and holding the position that it’s the parent who will make the final judgment. The goal is to engage the vaccine promoter with his or her own intrinsic motivation. Below are a few principles you can use:
Ask for Permission. When you are told “It’s time for vaccines” or someone is providing pressure for you to give vaccines, don’t launch into an argument. Instead, ask permission to discuss it further. This helps avoid an argument and conveys respect.
Explore their Ambivalence. Most thoughtful experienced vaccine promoters must have some thoughts about the reality of vaccine injury. Make it safe for them to voice their possibly deeply hidden concerns. This establishes your role as educator, rather than opponent. Below are how these first two elements might sound in a conversation with a healthcare provider. You can imagine using a similar approach for family or friends:
YOU: Your said my child is due for a _____ vaccine today. Would it be okay if we discussed it?
PARENT: [I have no idea what they will say! Let’s go with] Okay.
YOU: Many of your peers feel vaccines are entirely safe and totally effective. Your training has launched your career as a health care provider and you see that vaccines play an integral part of providing that care. You are concerned about parents who refuse vaccines and worried that it will cause specific risk to that child and perhaps to a larger population because of one child not receiving vaccines. These are valid concerns. If I were in your shoes, I would probably share your views. What do you see as the pros and cons of a person not getting vaccines?
Perhaps draw a line down the middle of a piece of paper and write the pros on the left and cons on the right side of the line as they provide them. This helps the person turn their vague feelings and fears into a finite number of specific concerns—concerns that can be addressed.
Paraphrase to Ensure Understanding. Summarize each concern. This makes sure you understand it and also demonstrates that you are listening. “So, correct me if I’m wrong, but you are worried that a child who does not receive a measles vaccine will be at risk of death? You are concerned that if a few children don’t get the measles vaccine a widespread outbreak will result in many people getting sick and perhaps many dying? You have concerns that parents do not understand the gravity of their decision to avoid vaccines and that they are unnecessarily putting their child at risk? Is that right?”
Address Each Concern with Facts. But first, ask for permission (again), “Would you mind if I provided you with more information about the risk of vaccine injury from recently published sources?” Have a few salient facts memorized and offer to send the papers. Provide all clarifying information in a nonjudgmental way.
Consider the Messenger. Ask yourself whether you are the right person to provide the facts. If you are a parent who has personally witnessed vaccine injury, a person who has received compensation through VICP, or a person who has spent thousands of hours researching the topic, you may consider yourself credible, but beware that your listener may not see you as credible. A health professional will generally value information provided by other health professionals. If you have had multiple children and some are vaccine injured and others who did not receive vaccines are vibrantly healthy, you may want to share your own personal observations. It might sound like this: I understand my small data sample is not science, but after my first child was vaccine injured I didn’t give vaccines to my others. The thing that astounds me every single day is the vibrant health of my non vaccinated children. I am absolutely certain that health is not the result of getting an injection of so many chemicals on a regular basis.”
If you don’t think the person sees you as a credible messenger, then use information that comes from more credible sources. Provide a handout from Learn the Risk, Informed Consent Action Network, Children’s Health Defense, or NVIC. You may also encourage the person to investigate recent studies by Dr Aaby on long-term health after vaccines, Dr Theresa Deisher on DNA fragments in vaccines, or Dr Chris Exley and Dr Chris Shaw on aluminum in vaccines. Another resource for someone truly interested in exploring the topic is a video presentation by Dr Sam Eggertsen from Washington state focused on helping health care providers understand vaccine hesitant parents which answers the question “Why Do Parents Refuse To Vaccinate Their Children?” https://youtu.be/8LB-3xkeDAE
Final Affirmation/Acknowledgement. “I applaud you for having this discussion with me. I am happy to discuss anything further. I’m sure I don’t know as much as you. I don’t have your training and haven’t read all your medical textbooks, but I am 100% committed to finding the truth. I also want to help parents have healthy happy babies – which I am sure is also your goal. I believe we achieve the best health, as individuals and as communities, by boosting the innate immune system and the body’s own defense against infectious disease. Avoiding chemicals in our food, air, water, and what we inject into our body – all of which burden our natural detox system – seems a wise approach in the pursuit of health.”
Consider Multiple Influences. You asked how to have a conversation with a vaccine promoter. These conversations are important, but they’re only one aspect of a comprehensive influence strategy. If your mission is to inform the public and especially new parents of the reality of vaccine injury you could employ a combination of strategies at the Personal, Social, and Structural levels. These would include conversations, but also involve community leaders within schools, churches, and sports teams. They would also include discussions with lawmakers and policy makers. I pray this information will be helpful in getting people to thoroughly investigate the truth on this issue. Let me know if you try any of these suggestions, and how they work for you!
As your child approaches specific milestones – usually in age, you will hear from family, friends, your trusted pediatrician, that it is now “time for “11 year old shots”.
Most parents take this in stride. They understand their child may have some hesitancy, and help them psychologically prepare for the procedure in advance. Since the CDC has been recommending vaccines since most parents were children, we accept that they are a normal part of life.
Should parents ask any more questions about these “recommended 11 year old shots”? What about the new additional ‘off to college’ shots?
Your child may feel a little anxious about it. You may even feel a bit nervous about the visit. But have you taken a little time to ask some questions about these recommendations?
Firstly what shots did you get when you were 11?
What shots are being recommended for your 11 year old?
What diseases will they prevent? Is the protection from these diseases 100% guaranteed?
Is there any known risk of adverse reactions to the shots?
Has the combination of shots recommended for my child been studied thoroughly and tested so we can be confident that it is harmless to give multiple shots at the same visit?
Are some shots relatively new?
What has been the safety track record so far?
What are the ingredients in the specific vaccines recommended? How was the vaccine manufactured? Where was the vaccine manufactured?
As a parent you are probably fairly careful about what your child eats. You are also careful about your child’s friends, environment, and general safety. Injecting ingredients into your child’s body is actually a lot more serious than we have always thought: We got vaccines, our children get vaccines, no big deal. There are so many developments in science since the time we were children that we need to take some time to explore a lot of issues around the vaccine discussion.
The most important aspect of life is health. We want to guard and treasure our child’s health. I encourage you, as a loving dedicated parent, to take some time to learn about:
The 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act which serves to protect vaccine manufacturers from all liability for the products injected into children as recommended by the CDC.
Vaccine Adverse Events Reports System (VAERS). A registry of voluntary reporting of vaccine injury.
The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). The compensation system set up after the 1986 Act as a means to compensate families who experienced death or injury from vaccines. As of 2019 over $4 billion has been paid out for vaccine injury through this closed court system.
Study the actual diseases and learn how you can treat them safely and effectively.
Just think about it. There is no other product you use for your family that the manufacturer is 100% liability free. Experts admit that some children will be harmed from vaccines. The exact percentage of children is routinely stated as very low. The reality of vaccine injury is a topic IGNORED and hidden rather than studied. Too many families have learned the hard way that vaccines cause injury far more frequently than expected.
Information is power. When you know the facts in this discussion you will not be led by fear. Fear has been the primary motivating factor in selling vaccines to the public. Should we fear these diseases or should we fear those who profit from selling a liability free product virtually mandated on the entire population?
As a Christian, I have a responsibility to warn you about what I have discovered from thousands of hours of research, reading, and studying this information. You owe it to your children to become informed. I am happy to provide more information.
Becky Hastings, avid follower of Jesus Christ, wife, mother, grandmother, health seeker and reporter. Seeking truth can be challenging, and sometimes confusing, but far more rewarding than staying ignorant.
All our representatives and senators need to understand the heroic acts of families seeking to protect their children in the same way as Representative Heidi Sampson from Maine.
I sent this fax to the Senate Committee who meet on March 5, 2019 to discuss the measles ‘outbreak’. I have included all the members of the committee, along with their phone numbers and fax numbers. I called my state representative. I told him I had a one page fax for him and asked how I could get this information to all members of the committee in advance. The staffer offered to fax a copy to all the members on the committee after I faxed it to him. So, please contact your representative and prepare your own words so that they will be able to consider the true risk of harm from vaccines and the danger of vaccine mandates! There are FREE websites where you can send faxes.
From: Rebecca Hastings, Health Researcher & Author
Anderson, South Carolina
Please direct all responses to: beckyspd@gmail.com
To Senator Tim Scott
As per my telephone conversation with Kendrick on 1 March 2019, I would like every member of the Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions to receive this information prior to their committee meeting on 5 March 2019.
Regarding hearings on the recent measles outbreaks and vaccine mandates
Please consider:
The pubic has been told repeatedly that “vaccines are safe,” yet HHS has paid out over $4 billion since 1988 for proven vaccine injury and death after vaccines. The US Supreme Court has ruled vaccines as “unavoidably unsafe”. Vaccines pose a serious risk of adverse reactions.
The Nuremburg Code outlines the principles a free society must maintain on medical experimentation and the use of force or coercion in medical procedures. Individuals must retain the right to refuse any medical procedure.
The recent Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the HOR Committee on Energy & Commerce spent 90 minutes but received very one-sided input on this issue. All opinion holders on this controversial issue must be heard. Dr Theresa Deisher, Dr Chris Shaw, and Dr Toni Bark are just a few of many highly qualified individuals who have expertise to address the health concerns regarding vaccines. Additionally Physicians for Informed Consent (physiciansforinformedconsent.org) and Children’s Health Defense (www.childrenshealthdefense.org) can provide the committee with vital information on known risks of vaccines, and the danger of mandates for all citizens.
Vaccines are the only product where the manufacturers face no liability. Having a 100% liability free product mandated on most children via CDC recommendations is a bonanza. Every vaccine manufacturer has been found guilty of fraud for their other drugs. How can we trust that their vaccine divisions are free from fraud if we cannot hold them responsible? Pharmaceutical influence must be considered in this debate. Each member of this committee must disclose all financial ties to industry in order for full transparency. Individual health must not be coerced on the basis of the power of this industry protected from liability.
HHS received a mandate to ensure vaccine safety but has admitted that they have not fulfilled this mandate for over 30 years.
The FDA/CDC/NIH can produce no evidence that any vaccine has ever been tested against a true placebo. Further, none of these organizations can provide any evidence that the entire vaccine schedule recommended for children (72 doses of 16 vaccines from birth – 18 years) has ever been tested for safety.
Most vaccine package inserts state clearly that it has not been tested for carcinogenic (cancer causing) properties, mutagenic (mutation causing) properties, or teratogenic (developmental malformation causing) potential. To force these untested products on the population is unconscionable.
These are not ‘unverifiable facts,’ ‘internet rumors,’ or ‘fake news.’
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 Pinto’s fatal design flaws
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.
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.
