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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268144514_Prevalence_Rates_of_Autism_Spectrum_Disorders_Among_the_Old_Order_Amish

https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/10-autism-facts-and-statistics-autism-rates-in-amish-countries-that-dont-vaccinate-and-more-600444/

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I’ve wrestled with the issues related to vaccinating infants, who have immature, as yet fully formed immune systems. I’ve researched what goes into vaccines and how they are made. This information is readily available to anyone with an Internet connection. The information is put out by scientific/medical and pharmaceutical authorities with nothing to hide (Aventis/Pasteur, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck KGaA, Merck and Co., Bristol-Myers Squibb, Mitsubishi Pharma — those highly revered former makers of Zeros fighter planes from WWII– etc.).

If you read what goes into vaccines and how they are derived (growth media, contents — i.e. adjuvants, agents that may stimulate the immune system and increase the response to a vaccine — etc.) it’s not hard to understand why the doubters and nay-sayers are up in arms).

As mentioned, all this information is out there — on the WWW — for the reading. Just look it up and inform yourselves… before making rash decisions. after reading, you may or may not wonder, why a great many vaccines are grown in such strange growth mediums, including egg albumin. Know anyone who is allergic to eggs… even deathly allergic to eggs?

Having said all this, doesn’t it follow that any right thinking individual (American or Canadian) would have to come to the logical conclusion that the U.S. government and the government of Québec have so much money in their coffers, ear-marked for Health, that they just don’t know what to do with it, except to enact laws to indemnify tax payers against substances (vaccines) that have no jeopardizing consequences?

Why did the U.S. Health Administration enact in 1986, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act/Program? Why would this Act and Program later be updated and amended — with lengthier timelines for filing legal claims for damages directly related to several dozen named vaccines, which can cause scientifically and medically proven, vaccine-related life-long illnesses and even including death)?

In Canada, this type of legislation only exists in the province of Québec, since 1989 (and I know of no amendments like those in the USA).

As well, why would any pharmaceutical company agree (in the U.S and in Québec, Canada) to pay a per-dose surcharge to build up a monetary funding pool from which claims (if successful) could be drawn for indemnification?

Why would any government, province in Canada, enact this type of legislation, if there is “nothing at all” to worry about regarding vaccines, childhood vaccines?

Inquiring minds would love to know….

If someone was about to call the police to give a tip-off about an impending bank robbery, would you disconnect their phone line to stop them, on the basis that the bank’s security should handle the threat by themselves? It’s not so very different when you block the vaccination message that could tip your body off to a threat of disease. And the threat is very real.

One of my mother’s siblings died at age five of something that we routinely immunize for now. She was twelve at the time and never got over guilt at not being able to help him and gnawing fear whenever one of us had a fever. When I mentioned this to someone the other day, she said that two of her mother’s brothers died in childhood of “routine childhood diseases” that we now immunize for. We lamented young parents’ ignorance of disease history.

Alexander Graham Bell worked at schools for the deaf. And why did we have schools for the deaf? Because it’s a common side effect of measles. The last school for the deaf in the U.S. closed last year for lack of customers.

As for “toxins,” babies are covered in bacteria from the moment they come out of the womb. Any scratch can give them more toxin than they get from a purified, sterile injection designed to protect them from invasion by disease pathogens. And what they get now, though delivered in more needles, is about 4% of what they received in the 60s to 80s (figures, graph).

When I went to school, classes were inoculated by a public health nurse at the recommended age. I was happy that I was being protected against diseases — at the time, only smallpox, diphtheria, and tetanus, I think. I suffered the rest of the childhood diseases, including whooping cough. If someone got measles late, e.g. in their teens, it was a very serious disease and meant possible sterility for males. I’ve also seen children born with Rubella syndrome–mute and handicapped by a silent viral infection in the womb. You don’t know when you are well off. For the love of your own children, give them what they need with a cheerful heart and a little fortitude.

When my little baby got injections, I used to cry too. But she had them, as I did in my childhood, and now she is 16 and healthy and an amazing addition to the world and growing in power every day.

Oh, and Scott: get an education. Logic is a freshman-level class in college, and you’re not there; take some time to learn about the immune system in biology/medicine texts rather than health-food pamphlets, your ignorance is disgraceful; but you can start now by following the links others have provided here. Do some learning before you open your mouth. Mortality before the time you are in and the only time you are familiar with had a very, very different set of curves. You might also take a look at the lives of those now who lack the benefits of modern medicine.

It would be a very, very lacking parent indeed who opted, in our modern world, to deprive their children of the benefits of modern medicine. There is no “difficult decision”. There are, however, ignorance and stupidity and poorly developed reasoning ability.

It is a true story. I guess I am a bit more familiar since my daughter’s second grade teacher was from Anchorage, AK and always did a program on the Iditarod (even when she was teaching the deaf/hard of hearing class, where she started). So the story of how the race came to be was included, a diphtheria outbreak in Nome.

I overheard some twenty something women on the bus discussing getting their children vaccinated and they were generally opposed to the idea because of what they saw as “risk” (autism etc) except for the chicken pox vaccine.

They had known people who got chicken pox as adults and had gotten very sick. To them that was the only childhood disease they saw a real risk because it was the only one they had seen. Polio isn’t real to them, but chicken pox is.