Vaccines

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" .....vaccines are at best completely useless, have never prevented any

disease and they cause enumerable acute and chronic health problems. "

I guess arguing about vaccines on an autism list is about a productive as trying

to argue religion or politics at a tavern.....but this statement really concerns

me. 

Never prevented any disease? 

So the eradication of smallpox from the world was an act of God?    

What about measles?  Everyone used to get it 50 years ago, and thousands would

die from it. 

Polio?  Remember the braces the kids used to have to wear on their legs and have

to use a cane forever?

The list goes on and on. 

Vaccines have saved MILLIONS of lives. 

That is the main point I want to make - that vaccines have made the world a

better place.  We shouldn't forget this. 

I don't think vaccines caused my daughter's autism.  I think there's a tiny

fraction of the population (well under 1%) who are innately immunocompromised

who could be harmed by vaccines, but overall vaccines have done way more good

than harm, and most kids should be vaccinated. 

The rate of autism over the past 30-40 years has increased exponentially. 

Vaccination rates during the same period have stayed about the same, and have

actually decreased somewhat in recent years due to autism fears.  If moms are

choosing to vaccinate less often, shouldn't this result in the autism rate go

down?  The reverse is happening.  Fewer vaccinations, yet more and more autism

cases...how can vaccines be the cause if we're vaccinating less while the rate

grows? 

How many parents give their kids

all of their vaccinations?  95%?  Let's say it's only 80%.....if

vaccines cause " enumerable acute and chronic health problems. "   Why are we all

surrounded by so many normal healthy kids and adults?  Why isn't everyone who's

getting vaccinated getting all of these " enumerable " health problems that

vaccines cause?  

Despite the millions of dollars in research conducted trying to prove a link

between vaccines and autism exists, one has never been found.  Okay, well

Wakefield said he found one, but his research results were never reproducible

within the scientific community and he's been fully discredited for having a

conflict of interest.  He lost his license to practice medicine in Britain.

I'll probably never change the mind of someone who thinks vaccines cause autism,

just like folks who are convinced ghosts are real, 9/11 was a government

conspiracy, or whatever other topic people can get really passionate about, but

when someone goes as far as saying vaccines are useless, I have to speak up. 

Tammy