And none of that speaks to the ethics of forcing people to do something which might kill either them or their child. People do die from vaccines and sometimes have other serious complications. You’ve conveniently not addressed that.
“Rare cases where a known or plausible theoretical risk of death following vaccination exists include anaphylaxis, vaccine-strain systemic infection after administration of live vaccines to severely immunocompromised persons, intussusception after rotavirus vaccine, Guillain-Barré syndrome after inactivated influenza vaccine, fall-related injuries associated with syncope after vaccination, yellow fever vaccine-associated viscerotropic disease or associated neurologic disease, serious complications from smallpox vaccine including eczema vaccinatum, progressive vaccinia, postvaccinal encephalitis, myocarditis, and dilated cardiomyopathy, and vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis from oral poliovirus vaccine.”
Every ad for a drug on TV is 10 seconds of what the drug does and 20 seconds of warnings about the possible side-effects, but in many cases people have to fight with their doctors to see the safety inserts that comes with their vaccinations. Possible side effects or dangers are not offered up voluntarily in most instances. In fact, they are often minimized and hidden. Yes, these are rare cases but people have a right to know.
And the “education” process is usually something along the lines of “you’re an anti-scientific wack-job if you dare to question the perfect safety and efficacy of all vaccines.” It also conveniently leaves out that if you are injured, you cannot sue the manufacturer directly, but instead have to go through a special Federal court, where compensation is paid for by us the taxpayer.
Studies that claim to be definitive act as if they were controlled double-blind studies, when that is almost never the case, and instead are simply conclusions drawn from collecting “administrative data” which don’t take Healthy User Bias into account.
The Journal of Virology just published the results of a study that concluded that Annual Vaccination against Influenza Virus Hampers Development of Virus-Specific CD8+ T Cell Immunity in Children. Why isn’t that being reported on the nightly news? That getting your child immunized every year may make them more susceptible to other pandemic strains.
“However, long-term annual vaccination using inactivated vaccines may hamper the induction of cross-reactive CD8+ T cell responses by natural infections and thus may affect the induction of heterosubtypic immunity. This may render young children who have not previously been infected with an influenza virus more susceptible to infection with a pandemic influenza virus of a novel subtype.”
Your condescending point of view that many people are too uneducated to make intelligent decisions is the same one that the government has — and it’s precisely what is driving the anti-vaccine movement. You are saying, “Trust me, I know what’s best for you,” without addressing any of the things that could go wrong. It builds a lack of trust because things do go wrong and then some people say, “You never told me that was a possibility. Why should I trust you?”
