I’m not anti-vaxx, but I am terrified that my son will get some kind of issues from them. He gets vaccines anyway, mostly because I’m bullied into doing it, but the anxiety over it tears me up inside. His 6 month appointment is in a week and I’m so scared that he’s going to change after those doses. He is so happy, healthy, and perfect right now… him changing, getting a disability, or getting life-altering ill would be like losing him–he wouldn’t be the same baby anymore. I’m not ready to mourn the loss of my baby, and I wouldn’t be ready no matter his age when the vaccines take toll.
I guess I’m just a skeptic (and also pro informed consent). I don’t know enough about vaccines, autism, or other issues to know whether or not my fears are justified. There is so much conflicting information out there and so much still being studied, and I don’t know which sources to trust or what to do about it. and then there is this entire community who thinks you’re awful and batshit crazy if you question vaccines, or any choices made my doctors. This is how it feels to be a parent. 3
I’ve been doing a lot of research the last few months (and please correct me if I’m wrong at any time throughout this post, but don’t be rude to me; I am open-minded and try my best not to be biased. I just want the truth so I can keep my son happy and healthy. As do all parents, I’m sure.) and did find that Andrew Wakefield was vindicated because they can’t prove his findings to be wrong, and his co-author actually got his license back. The reason they lost their licenses and everything to begin with was because they did not follow protocol when conducting their research–not because they lied about their findings, the paper was NOT retracted for having a false conclusion. Him being vindicated is the whole reason his movie Vaxxed came out, because he’s not named a liar anymore and can get traction. But to be honest, I was young and unaware and uninterested and uninformed about Andrew Wakefield while everything with him was going on, and it seems to be pretty well over at this point, so I’m not concerned with him and his situation when it comes to vaccines today. He says that he still believes that vaccines are linked to/cause autism and that the way they are manufactured and given needs to change. I guess he’s still fighting it since he made a movie, which I have yet to see, but whatever. It’s kind of over in my eyes.
Where my concern lies is with Dr. William Thompson. He was hired by the CDC to do a study (which was like a one-time thing because the CDC doesn’t conduct studies themselves) to prove that vaccines aren’t linked to autism at all. But he kept finding that they are linked. So the CDC had him continue to study and isolate his findings until he got results that were in their favor. Then, the CDC paid him $25,000 to keep quiet about it. They literally had a shredding party of the evidence. A bunch of people working on the study got together and shredded the findings that didn’t match their agenda.
Obviously, Thompson didn’t keep quiet. He told his peers about it years later, and released his findings. His personal copies of the study can be found through various, though few, sources online.
So, Thompson’s whole thing is that ethyl mercury causes autism, and since the time he’s done his study, the mercury has been removed from almost all vaccines. Which is great! Except for a few things:
1) Flu shots are still made with ethyl mercury. They have mercy-free options, but you have to special-request them.
2) Key word: almost all vaccines. You can actually find charts online that demonstrate how much mercury is in every vaccine in the US, including discontinued vaccines. The problem is that if the amount of mercury in a given vaccine is less than 0.03mcg, the FDA just calls it zero. Which, typically, makes sense in the math world of rounding. However, trace amounts of mercury are still toxic to the human body, so the exact amount is something we need to know. Trace amounts do not equal zero.
We are exposed to ethyl mercury in many other ways, some of which are natural, and these exposures DO contribute to autism (like the pollution from weyerhaeuser plants, which is not natural. Children growing up near these plants typically show damage from the mercury in the output, and disorders such as autism are in higher numbers among those children when compared to children who don’t have such environmental factors, regardless of their vaccines–but that’s just one example and not the point of this topic.). We can’t deny that ethyl mercury is damaging to the human body. But what about the methyl mercury in our drinking water? This is something I hear as a rebuttal all the time: “Well mercury can’t be that bad, anyway, because it’s in our water and can be found in the fish we eat.” Meaning that we ingest it all the time and we’re fine, so why worry? (but how equal are the two and is the mercury in our fish even comparable?) Either mercury can’t possibly cause autism or it isn’t enough of a worry, based on the fact that we consume it elsewhere with no identifiable consequences.
Methyl mercury has a longer half-life than ethyl mercury, which is great considering that ethyl mercury is the one in our vaccines; methyl mercury is in our system longer than ethyl mercury, but… a shorter half-life and trace amounts don’t mean much when compared to the percentage of mercury you’re ingesting and what the mercury can do to your body. You may ingest 0.2% of the methyl mercury in your water each week (example, not fact.), which you have control over (you can get water from other sources, find out how much is in your water, etc.), but you’re getting 100% of the ethyl mercury in your vaccine. So 0.5mcg of methyl mercury in your drinking water is okay because once it trickles down to you, you don’t ingest anywhere near that much, but you are guaranteed to ingest all 0.5mcg of the ethyl mercury in your vaccine.
Now, I’m not a scientist and I haven’t gone to school to study vaccines, autism, nor mercury; this is just stuff I’ve learned over the last couple months, and I am completely open to having this knowledge proven false, or having this stuff further explained to me. Because I assume somebody will have something to say to this. If you do have opposing information, whether it be about mercury or what have you, I prefer only the most recent information you can find. This stuff about the mercury is all from 2015. and given the track record of the CDC and the FDA, I’d prefer information that comes from another source. I mean, do you trust a company who pays $25,000 to keep someone quiet? or who refers to the H. Influenza as a freaking disease? The more I learn about the CDC, the more idiotic and selfish they seem. The H. Influenza is NOT a disease; it is a bacterial infection that can lead to diseases, as most infections can. But again, I don’t know who I can and can’t trust. If you trust the CDC and the FDA, then by all means, show me what you’ve got. :) (and maybe tell me why you trust them so that I can get on board)
In conclusion here, all I know is that ethyl mercury is damaging and it shouldn’t be in our vaccines. Dr. William Thompson was able to prove that the ethyl mercury in our vaccines is damaging to children, and in return, the amount of ethyl mercurcy in our vaccines was reduced. But was it enough?
and what about the aluminum used in vaccines, or the the dairy caseins? and God knows what else. I mean, there is so much out there to look into. I am still in the middle of expanding my knowledge, but vaccines have been linked to very serious GI problems and disorders, as well as autoimmune diseases. Plus, what about the evidence that says the antibody theory is incorrect? So even vaccines without all of these toxins still do damage, because antibodies don’t equate to immunity or protection from diseases (almost all vaccines only provide temporary immunity, anyway).
The problem with finding out what it is that vaccines contribute to simply boils down to history and technology, whether it’s autism, autoimmune diseases, GI problems, or something else. Vaccines haven’t been around that long, and neither has autism, and the “spectrum” of autism is fairly new, as well, as is our medical technology. We’re still learning which behaviors at which ages are and aren’t considered to be on the autism spectrum, and which genes, environments, and other factors contribute to autism. I mean, I’m sure autism has been around for forever, but we didn’t know it was autism back in the day, just like how people confused Guillain-barre with Polio, or how cancer was a big killer before we found it and learned how to treat it. We’re just not advanced enough to know exactly what we’re doing, and that’s the biggest issue that I have with vaccines.
Of course, vaccines were made with good intentions of saving the human race from experiencing awful illnesses and the hopes of prolonging our existence, and that’s wonderful. But they don’t know what they’re doing to us. It isn’t until these children grow up that we start to see problems, and they don’t detail the effects until a person somewhere claims that they themselves or their child has been damaged by a vaccine. They’d have no reason to look into it if no one claimed troubles.
and did you know that there is a law in place that protects vaccine manufacturers from being sued due to vaccine-related complications? You can report adverse effects, and you can sue your doctor or the distributor, but you cannot sue the manufacturers for making something that ruined the life of yourself or your child.
“Your regular reminder that the entire anti-vaxx movement is founded and predicated on hatred and devaluation for autistic people and autistic lives. Never forget this, and remember to talk about it when you’re talking about anti-vaxxers.”
I don’t know where this thing about hating autistic people came from, honestly. Not a single anti-vaxxer that I know has ever had a problem with autistic nor disabled people, and being a vaccine-skeptic myself, I do not hate autistic people nor do I believe their lives are of any less value than my own. I think that’s a load of crap. The anti-vaxx movement did not start because people hate autistic people, it started because people want their children to be safe and healthy and don’t trust the government.
I have three autistic in-law siblings, all varying levels on the spectrum, and I love having them in my life. My best friend of 13 years and counting has an autistic son, and I was his primary care provider for six years. He can be difficult at times, yes, but I love him to pieces. I would have loved to see the kind of person he was without autism, because of all the troubles that his autism causes him, but I love him nonetheless and I would never change him. That’s up to him to decide, if changing were an option, and I would love and support him all the same.
But anyhow, wanting your own children to be healthy, happy, and disability-free does not equate to having a hatred or devaluing those who are disabled or who have autism; anti-autism is not the same as anti-autistic. Having a disability isn’t fun, and even though “disabled” may be what they are, we love who they are and we know that there is so much more to them than their disability… but if you could have prevented the disability from day one, would you not do it? You’d love who they are regardless, and I think our children deserve lives without disabilities …so if we can avoid disabilities, I think we should do it. We want our children to be strong, happy, healthy, and independent among other qualities and characteristics. While they can be most of these things with a disability, they cannot be all of them.
Anyhow, there are a lot of theories about how vaccines cause autism, and for that reason, I just want to toss the whole thing aside and pretend it never happened… thimerosal/ethyl mercury, side effects such as brain swelling, DNA incompatibility from the original fetuses used to create vaccines, mimicking effects of the illnesses themselves, and the administration of multiple vaccines simultaneously–to name a few things currently being looked at for autism causes in relation to vaccines.
But it isn’t all about autism. What about the autoimmune diseases and GI problems? What about all of the vaccines that have MUCH worse side effects than the illnesses they’re trying to prevent? You don’t know how your child will be affected unless you know their DNA makeup and how each vaccine effects such DNA. or how about the fact that you’re risking said side effects for temporary immunity, or perhaps no immunity at all? What about the spread of illnesses that vaccines cause, like cVDPV, which harm both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals? People who are vaccinated can still get sick, and they can host illnesses from vaccines, meaning they bring those illnesses with them when they visit places where people with compromised or immature immune systems are. What about these illnesses that are very minor after a couple of vaccines, but we’re being forced to get multiples more or even boosters, continuing to get toxins, though they aren’t needed? The list goes on.
What boggles my mind the most is how people can blindly follow the advice of medical professionals who don’t have any more knowledge of these things than the government tells the public. The human brain and body is very complex and very capable of handling illnesses–and by vaccinating, we’re creating new strains of illnesses that have no vaccines and are stronger than their ancestors. and clearly, we don’t know what we’re doing to our brains and bodies with these vaccines. Are you not concerned with what we’re doing to our children?
Right now, without further knowledge, the only real reason that I am vaccinating my son is for fear of circulating vaccine-derived illnesses, or vaccine-derived illnesses in any case. He has a better chance of not being harmed from those illnesses if he has the vaccine than he does without having the vaccine. I am following the lead of those before me by vaccinating and bursting inside with the fear that I’m making a mistake, especially since vaccine complications run on both sides of his family. I wish I could feel good about my decision to vaccinate my son.
I despise Trump (though I’m hoping something good will come out of his presidency), so the fact that he is vaccine-wary makes me nervous. I don’t trust him, so to have him agree with me makes me afraid that I am utterly out of place.
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