Pharma Companies & Vaccines ($$$)

I used to be a social worker who supported developmentally disabled adults.  One day I was chatting with the mother of  one of my clients.  My client, who was mentally challenged, was not born with a disability.  She became disabled after having a seizure due to a vaccination.  In fact, she and her parents won a joint lawsuit against the company that made the vaccine.   (She was born in the early 1970's)

Before I started reading Mercola's newsletter I had no idea that vaccines were still dangerous to some, especially children.  I also didn't know that vaccines are not always effective (see my blog about the CDC).  I think Mercola's outspoken opposition against pharmaceutical companies' aggressive push of vaccinations is very important.

In a post today he talks about pharmaceutical companies being immune to lawsuits over vaccines, and the fact that Pharma Companies are pushing to make many vaccinations mandatory.  He states,  "In February of this year, drug companies got what they wanted all along: the U.S. Supreme Court gave Pharma total immunity from lawsuits..."

Mercola continues, "Pharma is funding medical organizations profiting from mass vaccination policies to press politicians into quickly passing laws that force Americans to buy and use dozens of doses of vaccines...But what happens if a vaccine given to a child without the parent's consent ends up injuring or killing a child? Is anyone accountable? No. Nobody is liable in a court of law to be tried before a jury of our peers when our children and grandchildren are injured or die after getting vaccinated – not the drug companies that made the vaccines; not the federal health officials, who licensed and recommend the vaccines; not the doctor or medical worker, who gave the vaccines; and not the state politician, who voted for vaccine mandates or looked the other way while state health officials added another new vaccine to the required list..."

He condends, "Nobody is held accountable or liable when a child is injured or killed by vaccines in America except the parent of that child, whose informed consent rights may have been violated by fellow citizens wielding power they should never have been given..."

He goes on to state, "More of us are wondering why doctors inside and outside of government are insisting that every child get 70 doses of 16 vaccines starting on the first day of life and why that list includes expensive new vaccines for mild diseases, like chickenpox, and for diseases you can't catch in a classroom, like hepatitis B. More of us are asking why we have to get a flu shot every year and why health care workers are losing their jobs if they don't..."

He also holds that, "More of us are looking at vaccine studies published in the medical literature, many of which are paid for by drug companies or public health agencies promoting one-size-fits-all vaccine policies, only to discover that a lot of those studies are the best junk science that money can buy..."

I like that Mercola offers a different viewpoint about vaccines than those of conventional medicine.  I think it's important that he challenges the status quo of pharmaceutical companies pushing vaccines to make a profit.   I think it is especially important for parents to be informed about the risks before they make their decisions about what vaccines to give, or not give, to their children.

A Votre Sante, (Here's to Your Health), Alix