Looks like the so-called herd immunity may be B.S. in regards to vaccination:
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http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/09/obse ... ates-.html]
The validity of herd immunity undergirds all compulsory vaccination policies. The theory of herd immunity posits that when a sufficiently high threshold of people in a community is immune to a specific disease, it creates a protective effect, a barrier of sorts. Society achieves herd immunity when this protective cordon prevents a resurgence of the disease and, as a result, protects vulnerable individuals who cannot receive vaccines (or whose vaccines failed).
After the conference, I approached James Colgrove, PhD, an expert in the history and ethics of public health from Columbia University. I complimented him on his 2006 book State of Immunity and asked for clarification. His book reveals that the term “herd immunity”? first appeared in 1923. He describes data limitations and the difficulty in validating the theory empirically. He quotes one official saying, in 1932, that herd immunity was “a mere hypothesis.”? I asked Colgrove for subsequent evidence-based research upholding the soundness of herd immunity. He mentioned epidemiological studies on measles in the 1960s and 1970s that provided corroboration. I challenged him.
As explained to me by pediatrician Larry Palevsky,
the original basis for herd immunity had nothing to do with vaccines. When sufficiently high numbers of people contracted the wild form of the disease and secured lifelong natural immunity, statisticians observed a protective effect in the community as described above. Policymakers eager to promote vaccines sought ammunition to increase vaccine uptake. Researchers assumed that vaccine-induced immunity would operate in the same manner as natural immunity and presumed that vaccines therefore would also create herd immunity. I am not a scientist but I know that
vaccine-induced immunity is not remotely the same thing as natural immunity. Natural immunity is the gold standard. Vaccine-induced immunity is qualitatively different; for starters, vaccines do not always work and their protection wanes over time. Colgrove admitted as much, and I just stood there for a moment, stunned. We clearly need more inquiry into this critically important subject. However, it does not take scientific brilliance to understand this key point: discredit herd immunity and the house of cards supporting vaccine mandates comes tumbling down.[/quote]
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http://www.westonaprice.org/press/studi ... d-disease/]Both unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals are at risk from exposure to those recently vaccinated.
Vaccine failure is widespread; vaccine-induced immunity is not permanent and recent outbreaks of diseases such as whooping cough, mumps and measles have occurred in fully vaccinated populations.14,15 Flu vaccine recipients become more susceptible to future infection after repeated vaccination.16, 17[/quote]
I agree with this but we all know politics and career opportunism gets in the way of facts:
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http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/09/obse ... ates-.html]I said it is dangerous to say that the science is clear; that as physicians and PhDs,
they know what evidence-based medicine means and in the absence of randomized controlled studies of the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated, there are strict limits as to what they can and should say about the state of the science. I stressed that they failed to even acknowledge how devastating vaccine injuries can be, bringing their attention to Susan Kreider. Offit was cued to cut me off at that point, so I quickly asked why children are expected to uphold the entire burden of herd immunity for all of society. Not surprisingly, they did not answer my question, but to my surprise, my comments received applause. Offit came up to me after the Panel and shook my hand.[/quote]
But wouldn't this suggest it may work? You don't go from 432 deaths to 0 in just one year without a huge seachange.
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http://www.westonaprice.org/press/studi ... d-disease/]The number of measles deaths declined from 7575 in 1920 (10,000 per year in many years in the 1910s) to an average of 432 each year from 1958-1962.18 The vaccine was introduced in 1963.
Between 2005 and 2014, there have been no deaths from measles in the U.S. and 108 deaths from the MMR vaccine.19[/quote]
So if the issue isn't as settled as the propaganda would have us all believe, why should I actively support non-parental choice?
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http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/09/obse ... ates-.html]While they were comfortable discussing the negative role that our activism plays in decreasing vaccine uptake rates,
their silence on the specifics of our issues was both deafening and telling. They did not discuss society’s collective responsibility to people who are injured and killed while upholding their duty to protect society. There was not one word uttered about any of the existing and emerging science critical of vaccines and vaccine ingredients. With the exception of Dr. Diane Harper’s comments during the HPV Panel, there were no remarks about the merits of slowing things down a bit.
Moreover, no one breathed a word about the United States’ precipitous decline among the world’s nations in infant mortality rankings (we lag behind every developed country except Poland) or the mind-numbing increases in the incidence of chronically ill children. At the conference, what mattered most was compliance with vaccine mandates.[/quote]