I Too Was Duped
Many of us that are parents have spent many hours of thought on whether or not the vaccinations required for our children were more harmful than helpful. Recently a friend posted a blog about vaccinations and the dangers they can lead to.
I as a single parent was concerned about the studies that showed that vaccinations could lead to autism and refused to allow my daughter to be vaccinated until I had to. Now I know I was duped.
The doctor who did the study linking autism to vaccinations has been discredited and shown to have used falsified data.
This leads me also to some other issues I have experienced.
My oldest grand daughter (first and finest LOL) was diagnosed with ADHD after Hurricane Katrina. It appears that there has been an increase in this diagnosis among children that experienced Hurricane Katrina. Many people feel now that this diagnosis is mumbo jumbo. That the disease doesn’t exist. Let me tell you, it does. To deny a child treatment for a disorder that you don’t believe in is a not protecting your child. It is harmful.
We cannot continue to discredit and discount scientific and medical evidence. If we do error, it must be on the side of what is best for our children.
we had an epidemic here last year or so that got people lined up like sheep to take a vaccine that contained mercury. I refused and just thought it was incredible at the people who did this. We are sick because of vacinnes. It has weakened our immune systems .I never take vacinnes ever.Except polio.lol
With all swine flu the gov.forced every living citizen to take the shot. Many died because those mandatory shots were expired (they bought them cheaper and hadn’t test them before giving them to people)
I had to keep my family sequestred indoors the day they were supposed to be visited at work by nurses,but that’s one abusive act I’ll never regret..Scarry thing,my mom had one female colleague dead few days later from galloping leukemia and other feeling sick.
My son has ADHD. Does it exist? I truly believe so. The issue with said behavior diseases at such a young age for counselors is do we produce said disease because of over diagnoses or not? For instance, telling a child they have an issue and need a pill to correct them. Does this lead to learned behavior in the fact that they now believe I can’t act a certain way without this pill. Or, are we simply stifling creativity and those not what we consider “normal” in order to build a society that we believe should all act one way? On that issue, none of us truly know. For my son, we have used meds and we have not used meds at certain times depending on the issues at hand.
The vaccination shit is so wrong. It horrifies me to think of the children that may be afflicted with diseases because parents didn’t do their homework. As far as ADHD goes it does exist but it is extremely over diagnosed.
I don’t have kids, so I cannot speak to this debate in specific, but as I said over on your friend’s blog, it does seem to boil down to a conversation between what is good for the society versus the rights of the individual. Throw children’s health into that debate and you’ve got a perfect storm. What’s ironic is that I would guess that the majority of folks opposed to mandatory vaccinations as a violation of individual rights would not support individual rights in the domain of a woman’s right to choose. Funny how these ironies pop up, like most Pro-life people also being in favor of death penalty being another classic example.
Here was a bit of news last week about an addiction vaccine that popped up last week. Addiction counseling is my new field of specialty, so as long as we’re talking about vaccines, I thought I’d toss it in here.
Did you see George Stephanopoulos get into it with that doctor about the vaccinations on Good Morning America today? Wow! I never seen George so riled up!
I couldn’t agree with you more. The children should always come first.
Don’t feel like you were duped, you were not necessarily. Every vaccine carries some risks. Even a flu vaccine could cause Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Granted it may only happen in 2 out of a million cases, but it does happen. Parents, grandparents and caregivers just need to make sure they know the risks and the risks of not having the vaccine. We all have computers and google is only a touch away. Do not believe only and everything that the CDC says either.