Herd Immunity-- Fact and Fiction
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. ~ Cicero
Health officials are blaming unvaccinated children, or rather their parents, for the recent
measles outbreak that started at Disneyland. Let’s look a little closer.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) records reveal a startling fact— while no one has died of
measles in the U.S. in the last 12 years, 108 have died as a result of the adverse effects of
the vaccine in that same time period. http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2015/02/measles-vaccines-kill-more-than-measles.html
Could it be that those non-vaccinating parents know something the rest of us don't? It wasn't
that long ago that a small 'fringe' minority opposed DDT, lead in paint or gasoline, x-ray machines
in shoe stores, and various other modern wonders. Eventually,what once appeared to be scientific
proof of safety and efficacy turned out to be a clever spin. The minority converted the majority.
Like Gandhi said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
It’s true that, world wide, about 250,000 people contracted measles last year and more than
half died, due to poor medical support and also because malnourished people get the most
serious cases.
It’s also true that a person infected with measles may be contagious for 24 to 48 hours
before feeling sick, according to Stephen Cochi, MD, MPH, a senior adviser with the CDC’’s
global immunization division.
Vaccines Make Us Infectious
However, Dr. Cochi doesn’t mention a related fact reported by Leslie Manookian, producer
of The Greater Good, a documentary about vaccination hazards. Citing ten journal articles,
she explains, “Individuals vaccinated with live virus vaccines such as MMR (measles, mumps
and rubella), rotavirus, chicken pox, shingles and influenza can shed the virus for many
weeks or months [after their shots].” http://www.westonaprice.org/author/khartke/
Which means that unless newly vaccinated people quarantine themselves and their children
after the vaccinations, they are putting others at risk of infection. What say you now,
Stephen Cochi?
Vaccinal Immunity Doesn’t Last
Furthermore, Ms. Manookian reminds us that “vaccine-induced immunity is not permanent
and recent outbreaks of diseases such as whooping cough, mumps and measles have
occurred in fully vaccinated populations.” Contrast the vulnerability of vaccinated people
to the life-long immunity of those who actually had measles as children. Considering how
mild the symptoms of these diseases are for children, no wonder parents might prefer a
measles party to a vaccine that only confers a few years resistance to disease.
Cicero was right. A fundamental axiom of science is that if a hypothesis is disproved, then a
new hypothesis should be offered and tested. Instead, the CDC ‘persists in their error,’ trying
to postpone the paradigm shift. Pride goes before a fall.
Change is always slow; when Max Planck was asked why the Quantum Theory was so ridiculed,
he replied, “Physics changes funeral by funeral.”
The CDC, news anchors, and legislators reveal their ignorance when they indignantly complain
about parents who don’t vaccinate their children, and accuse them of undermining herd immunity.
Herd Immunity True & False
Many pediatricians think herd immunity results when a large group of people have been
vaccinated. Dr. Tim O’Shea corrects a common misconception, “True herd immunity is a term
which indicates that a disease has burned itself out within a population, as with plague, smallpox,
typhus [and] every infectious disease in history. The herd has become immune. Natural selection.
It has to do with nature, not with manmade vaccines.” Now you know; don’t be fooled again. http://gianelloni.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/the-myth-of-herd-immunity/
Dr. Russell Blaylock (board certified neurosurgeon) clarifies, “In the original description of herd
immunity, the protection to the population at large occurred only if people contracted the
infections naturally. The reason is that naturally acquired immunity lasts for a lifetime.”
Vaccine proponents borrowed the concept and applied it to vaccine-induced immunity. The only
problem— recent analysis found that most vaccines lost their effectiveness 2 to 10 years after
being given. http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/health/forced-vaccinations-government-and-the-public-interest-2-27045.html
Endless Boosters
Dr. Blaylock continues, “This is why they quietly began to suggest boosters for most vaccines,
even the common childhood infections such as chickenpox, measles, mumps, and rubella.
“Then they discovered an even greater problem: The boosters were lasting for only two years
or less. This is why we are now seeing mandates that youth entering colleges get multiple
vaccines, even those that they insisted gave lifelong immunity, such as the MMR. The same is
being suggested for full-grown adults. Ironically, no one in the media or medical field is asking
what is going on. They just accept that it must be done.”
Up to half the baby boomers have been unprotected for decades because no one knew they
needed boosters for their short-lived vaccine-induced immunity. There’s a very big hat that the
CDC must eat— herd immunity has not existed in this country for many decades! The good
news is that no resurgent epidemics have occurred.
“Vaccine-induced herd immunity is a lie used to frighten doctors, public-health officials, other
medical personnel, and the public into accepting vaccinations,” Dr. Blaylock concludes.
Pediatrician Larry Palevsky asks, “Do pertussis bacteria disappear from society once vaccination
rates are high? No. Vaccination rates for pertussis have no impact on whether the pertussis bacteria
are in the air or not, or whether or not we breathe them in." In other words, neither a person’s
vaccination status nor a population’s vaccination rate determine how many people ‘catch’ the disease.
You Can’t Have it Both Ways
Dr. Palevsky summarizes, “Anyone who poses as science the idea that unvaccinated children
pose a threat to the population…is misleading you." http://drpalevsky.com/dr_palevsky_letter_pertussis.asp
The main justification for seeking a high vaccine compliance rate is that immuno-compromised children,
being too weak to get vaccinated, might catch measles, pertussis, etc. from an unvaccinated child. However,
in reality, newly vaccinated children pose much more of a threat because they are shedding live viruses for
2 to 6 weeks after their shot. If children with cancer must be protected from unvaccinated children, so must
they be protected from recently vaccinated children! http://www.westonaprice.org/press/studies-show-that-vaccinated-individuals-spread-disease/
Instead of Vaccines
Children who slip through childhood without acquiring natural immunity to all the childhood diseases
need not fear those ailments in adulthood (when the symptoms are more serious); there are better
ways to build immunity than modern vaccines:
The Solution: Homeoprophylaxis: The Vaccine Alternative, by Kate Birch
There Is a Choice: Homeoprophylaxis, by Cilla Whatcott with foreward by Dr. Isaac Golden
The Complete Practitioner's Manual of Homeoprophylaxis, by Dr. Isaac Golden
Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History, by Suzanne Humphries, MD
Vaccine Epidemic, by Louise Kuo Habakus and Mary Holland JD
Articles:
Attacking Ourselves: Vaccines Turn Our Immune System against Us
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/attacking-ourselves-top-doctors-reveal-vaccines-turn-our-immune-system-against-us
10 Little Known Facts about the Vaccination Program in the US
https://parentsagainstmandatoryvaccinesdotnet.wordpress.com/ten-little-known-facts/
Healthy People 2020 (Today’s Federal to local push to vaccinate took 40 years planning)
http://drtenpenny.com/2015/03/09/healthy-people-2020-and-the-decade-of-vaccines/
CDC: Measles Vaccines Kill More Than Measles
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2015/02/measles-vaccines-kill-more-than-measles.html
U.S. Media Blackout: Italian Courts Rule Vaccines Cause Autism
http://healthimpactnews.com/2015/u-s-media-blackout-italian-courts-rule-vaccines-cause-autism/
I Rolled My Eyes at Parents Who Said Vaccines Caused Autism
http://thinkingmomsrevolution.com/rolled-eyes-parents-said-vaccines-caused-kids-autism/
Italian Court Says Mercury, Aluminum Cause Autism
http://healthimpactnews.com/2015/u-s-media-blackout-italian-courts-rule-vaccines-cause-autism/
Package Inserts from Vaccines— CDC puts them online
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm
British Doctors Say No Compulsory Vaccines
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-186604/Doctors-say-compulsory-vaccines.html
Videos:
Measles on the Brady Bunch and the Flintstones, pre-vaccine era (8 minutes)
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/measles-pre-vaccine/
Dr. Suzanne Humphries: The case against aluminum in vaccines (32 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZe99K12740
Dr. Stephanie Seneff: How vaccine ingredients pass blood-brain barrier to harm us (8 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3P6wVUH0pc
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. ~ Cicero
Health officials are blaming unvaccinated children, or rather their parents, for the recent
measles outbreak that started at Disneyland. Let’s look a little closer.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) records reveal a startling fact— while no one has died of
measles in the U.S. in the last 12 years, 108 have died as a result of the adverse effects of
the vaccine in that same time period. http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2015/02/measles-vaccines-kill-more-than-measles.html
Could it be that those non-vaccinating parents know something the rest of us don't? It wasn't
that long ago that a small 'fringe' minority opposed DDT, lead in paint or gasoline, x-ray machines
in shoe stores, and various other modern wonders. Eventually,what once appeared to be scientific
proof of safety and efficacy turned out to be a clever spin. The minority converted the majority.
Like Gandhi said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
It’s true that, world wide, about 250,000 people contracted measles last year and more than
half died, due to poor medical support and also because malnourished people get the most
serious cases.
It’s also true that a person infected with measles may be contagious for 24 to 48 hours
before feeling sick, according to Stephen Cochi, MD, MPH, a senior adviser with the CDC’’s
global immunization division.
Vaccines Make Us Infectious
However, Dr. Cochi doesn’t mention a related fact reported by Leslie Manookian, producer
of The Greater Good, a documentary about vaccination hazards. Citing ten journal articles,
she explains, “Individuals vaccinated with live virus vaccines such as MMR (measles, mumps
and rubella), rotavirus, chicken pox, shingles and influenza can shed the virus for many
weeks or months [after their shots].” http://www.westonaprice.org/author/khartke/
Which means that unless newly vaccinated people quarantine themselves and their children
after the vaccinations, they are putting others at risk of infection. What say you now,
Stephen Cochi?
Vaccinal Immunity Doesn’t Last
Furthermore, Ms. Manookian reminds us that “vaccine-induced immunity is not permanent
and recent outbreaks of diseases such as whooping cough, mumps and measles have
occurred in fully vaccinated populations.” Contrast the vulnerability of vaccinated people
to the life-long immunity of those who actually had measles as children. Considering how
mild the symptoms of these diseases are for children, no wonder parents might prefer a
measles party to a vaccine that only confers a few years resistance to disease.
Cicero was right. A fundamental axiom of science is that if a hypothesis is disproved, then a
new hypothesis should be offered and tested. Instead, the CDC ‘persists in their error,’ trying
to postpone the paradigm shift. Pride goes before a fall.
Change is always slow; when Max Planck was asked why the Quantum Theory was so ridiculed,
he replied, “Physics changes funeral by funeral.”
The CDC, news anchors, and legislators reveal their ignorance when they indignantly complain
about parents who don’t vaccinate their children, and accuse them of undermining herd immunity.
Herd Immunity True & False
Many pediatricians think herd immunity results when a large group of people have been
vaccinated. Dr. Tim O’Shea corrects a common misconception, “True herd immunity is a term
which indicates that a disease has burned itself out within a population, as with plague, smallpox,
typhus [and] every infectious disease in history. The herd has become immune. Natural selection.
It has to do with nature, not with manmade vaccines.” Now you know; don’t be fooled again. http://gianelloni.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/the-myth-of-herd-immunity/
Dr. Russell Blaylock (board certified neurosurgeon) clarifies, “In the original description of herd
immunity, the protection to the population at large occurred only if people contracted the
infections naturally. The reason is that naturally acquired immunity lasts for a lifetime.”
Vaccine proponents borrowed the concept and applied it to vaccine-induced immunity. The only
problem— recent analysis found that most vaccines lost their effectiveness 2 to 10 years after
being given. http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/health/forced-vaccinations-government-and-the-public-interest-2-27045.html
Endless Boosters
Dr. Blaylock continues, “This is why they quietly began to suggest boosters for most vaccines,
even the common childhood infections such as chickenpox, measles, mumps, and rubella.
“Then they discovered an even greater problem: The boosters were lasting for only two years
or less. This is why we are now seeing mandates that youth entering colleges get multiple
vaccines, even those that they insisted gave lifelong immunity, such as the MMR. The same is
being suggested for full-grown adults. Ironically, no one in the media or medical field is asking
what is going on. They just accept that it must be done.”
Up to half the baby boomers have been unprotected for decades because no one knew they
needed boosters for their short-lived vaccine-induced immunity. There’s a very big hat that the
CDC must eat— herd immunity has not existed in this country for many decades! The good
news is that no resurgent epidemics have occurred.
“Vaccine-induced herd immunity is a lie used to frighten doctors, public-health officials, other
medical personnel, and the public into accepting vaccinations,” Dr. Blaylock concludes.
Pediatrician Larry Palevsky asks, “Do pertussis bacteria disappear from society once vaccination
rates are high? No. Vaccination rates for pertussis have no impact on whether the pertussis bacteria
are in the air or not, or whether or not we breathe them in." In other words, neither a person’s
vaccination status nor a population’s vaccination rate determine how many people ‘catch’ the disease.
You Can’t Have it Both Ways
Dr. Palevsky summarizes, “Anyone who poses as science the idea that unvaccinated children
pose a threat to the population…is misleading you." http://drpalevsky.com/dr_palevsky_letter_pertussis.asp
The main justification for seeking a high vaccine compliance rate is that immuno-compromised children,
being too weak to get vaccinated, might catch measles, pertussis, etc. from an unvaccinated child. However,
in reality, newly vaccinated children pose much more of a threat because they are shedding live viruses for
2 to 6 weeks after their shot. If children with cancer must be protected from unvaccinated children, so must
they be protected from recently vaccinated children! http://www.westonaprice.org/press/studies-show-that-vaccinated-individuals-spread-disease/
Instead of Vaccines
Children who slip through childhood without acquiring natural immunity to all the childhood diseases
need not fear those ailments in adulthood (when the symptoms are more serious); there are better
ways to build immunity than modern vaccines:
- Avoid the USDA’s pseudoscientific My Plate dietary guidelines— remember, these folks thought margarine was healthy! Instead, emulate traditional diets. In the 1930s Weston Price, DDS, studied 14 cultures, from an isolated valley in Switzerland to aboriginal people in Australia and New Zealand. He sums up their vibrant health and immunity in his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. All 14 cultures emphasized these nutritional basics, now almost entirely vanished in the modern world: organ meat and bone broth from pastured livestock; fermented foods; grains soaked before cooking; emphasis on good fats like butter, lard, eggs, coconut oil, whole milk; no man made ingredients (from artificial flavors to genetic modification); and little or no added sugar. More info at WestonAPrice.org.
- Life threatening infections can be healed with high doses of intravenous vitamin C (Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner, Dr. Thomas Levy, and others)
- Stoss therapy from Germany— vitamin D, 50,000 IU a day for 3 days cuts short many infections
- High potency natural vitamin A is well known for strengthening the mucus membranes.
- Being iodine replete (sadly, about 75% of Americans don't get enough iodine!) empowers T lymphocytes to kill viruses inside the body. See http://goodschoolfood.weebly.com/iodine.html
- Traditional homeopathic remedies, which historically have been more effective than conventional medicine (there were no fatalities for the 5,000 patients of homeopathic doctors in the Spanish Flu epidemic in San Francisco, compared to fatality for half of conventionally treated hospital patients).
- Homeopathic Prophylaxis (HP) is a branch of homeopathy using nosodes (homeopathic preparation made from respiratory discharges or diseased tissues of sick animals or people). See hpsolution.org and vaccinefree.wordpress.com. Research with promising results in Cuba (http://www.homeopathycenter.org/news/homeoprophylaxis-human-records-studies-and-trials, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20674839, http://homeopathyplus.com.au/homeoprophylaxis-cuban-experiences-on-leptospirosis/) and Brazil and India (http://homeopathyplus.com.au/human-homeopathic-prevention-records-studies-and-trials/).
The Solution: Homeoprophylaxis: The Vaccine Alternative, by Kate Birch
There Is a Choice: Homeoprophylaxis, by Cilla Whatcott with foreward by Dr. Isaac Golden
The Complete Practitioner's Manual of Homeoprophylaxis, by Dr. Isaac Golden
Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History, by Suzanne Humphries, MD
Vaccine Epidemic, by Louise Kuo Habakus and Mary Holland JD
Articles:
Attacking Ourselves: Vaccines Turn Our Immune System against Us
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/attacking-ourselves-top-doctors-reveal-vaccines-turn-our-immune-system-against-us
10 Little Known Facts about the Vaccination Program in the US
https://parentsagainstmandatoryvaccinesdotnet.wordpress.com/ten-little-known-facts/
Healthy People 2020 (Today’s Federal to local push to vaccinate took 40 years planning)
http://drtenpenny.com/2015/03/09/healthy-people-2020-and-the-decade-of-vaccines/
CDC: Measles Vaccines Kill More Than Measles
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2015/02/measles-vaccines-kill-more-than-measles.html
U.S. Media Blackout: Italian Courts Rule Vaccines Cause Autism
http://healthimpactnews.com/2015/u-s-media-blackout-italian-courts-rule-vaccines-cause-autism/
I Rolled My Eyes at Parents Who Said Vaccines Caused Autism
http://thinkingmomsrevolution.com/rolled-eyes-parents-said-vaccines-caused-kids-autism/
Italian Court Says Mercury, Aluminum Cause Autism
http://healthimpactnews.com/2015/u-s-media-blackout-italian-courts-rule-vaccines-cause-autism/
Package Inserts from Vaccines— CDC puts them online
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm
British Doctors Say No Compulsory Vaccines
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-186604/Doctors-say-compulsory-vaccines.html
Videos:
Measles on the Brady Bunch and the Flintstones, pre-vaccine era (8 minutes)
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/measles-pre-vaccine/
Dr. Suzanne Humphries: The case against aluminum in vaccines (32 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZe99K12740
Dr. Stephanie Seneff: How vaccine ingredients pass blood-brain barrier to harm us (8 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3P6wVUH0pc