The Vaccination Debate & a Victim of Big Pharma

There really isn't a 'vaccination' debate, it's more about what side of the road you are on when it comes to vaccinating.

I recently read an amazingly well written article with so many good links in it that it could put any HuffPost, Time, CNN, Fox, MSNBC or any other news media source with well known writers to shame, not to mention all the sorry attempts at tearing down any parent who is not convinced that a parents right to not vaccinate is not their own. 

Megan, from Livingwhole.org pretty much hits the nail on the head. She's put all the websites such as Violent Metaphors, Mother Jones, Slate, The Daily Beast and many others to shame because of their lack of credible links to real medical studies really aren't worth my time because when I find one article, there usually is another very similar or a copy & paste.  

Unless the news media is going to actually research the subject at hand, (safety and efficacy,) and can prove without a shadow of a doubt that measles 'coming back' to the US after it had been eradicated in 2000, is all because of the anti vaccine movement, then give up the argument because there are no studies proving that is the case. That's not a debate, it is a sorry attempt at diverting the failed studies by Big Pharma, the CDC etc and publishing only the successful (moneymaking) studies.

If this is their best attempt at proving that it is all the fault of the parents who choose not to vaccinate their family then they've got a long way go. If there is never going to be a study published of unvaccinated vs vaccinated then why would there ever be a study that proves the anti-vaccine movement is to blame?

I have heard it time and again that parents should just listen to the medical professionals and in the words of Nancy Snyderman just "Get your damn vaccine!" Lets all sit down, shut up and give your child over to the government via vaccines, is that how it is going to be now that some states are making it mandatory? Sure does seem so.

Sitting down and shutting up doesn't work. Do you teach your children to just walk across the street without looking? No, you teach them to stop, look and listen right? It's easy, first stop then look for the danger, listen for the danger and when there is danger, then wait until the danger is past.

Should we teach them that they must respect others and their points of view or opinions? Should we teach them to think for themselves, teach them how to learn on their own, teach them to know about risks and benefits and weigh the pro's and con's? Of course we should, don't let your loved ones look past the risks and see only the benefits.

We all have reasons why we don't vaccinate, my own reason is because I had no idea what is in the vaccines.

Silly me, I didn't even research enough to know that there are some vaccines that do not have viruses in them but instead, bacteria.

I didn't know which ones were live or dead, didn't even believe that there was formaldehyde in them.

My child didn't get autism from the vaccines, didn't even get a fever over 100 so why did I stop vaccinating?

Because of my own (blind) faith in my children's Pediatrician and the CDC, that the vaccines worked  well and that my children wouldn't get the VPD if they got the vaccine, not knowing that there is a failure rate.

I didn't know how they worked besides creating antibodies but I didn't know how they created antibodies and didn't know how long it took for those antibodies to be completed.
I didn't even know anything about the so called 'herd immunity' concept, I hadn't researched any part of the vaccines . . . . at all.

I was a victim of Big Pharma.

I read the literature at the dr's office, I got it from the pharmacy, got it at my prenatal appointments and even got it at the hospital when my children were born so why shouldn't I question the vaccine?

I wish I knew that then.

I don't vaccinate anymore. My reason is not because of Jenny McCarthy, Kristen Cavallari, Andrew Wakefield, Dr Sears, etc,. That isn't my style. I don't follow the celebs and what their opinion is, not even when it comes to political matters with celebs like George Clooney endorsing Obama or Clint Eastwood endorsing Obama then four years later, endorsing Romney. Like I said, it isn't my style. 

I don't vaccinate because I have seen the studies, I've read what Immunologists have written for and against vaccines and much more and when it comes down to it, both me and my husband agree on the reasons why we don't vaccinate any longer. We don't vaccinate for the greater good of our children.  

That is my reason for not vaccinating, it may not be yours, it may be the same, but it is yours and yours alone. End of story.