Dachel Media Update: President Tells Us To Get Vaxxed, Christie Suggests Choice is Option
By Anne Dachel
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You can't imagine how insane the news is right now. If you search for "autism" stories, you'll find hundreds and hundreds of news sites all over the country telling you that the current 100+ cases of measles are the result of non-vaxxing parents who believe the discredited theory of a link between autism and the MMR vaccine. AND THERE IS NO LINK.
I've never seen it like this and I'm sure anyone looking at the news on TV or picking up a newspaper has seen the hysteria over measles currently. I can't begin to total up the reports. The messages are the same everywhere: Vaccines are safe, everyone should vaccinate, there is no link to autism, and non-vaccinating parents threaten us all.
NBC Today Show:
President Obama on measles: 'You should get your kids .
Obama was asked about the "requirement" for the measles (MMR) vaccine. He told parents not to worry. There is no reason not to vaccinate. He said parents need to vaccinate their children. "It's good for them."
Reuters: Obama tells parents to get kids vaccinated to stem measles
Obama said he understands the concerns of some parents about the effects of vaccinations, but "the science is, you know, pretty indisputable. We've looked at this again and again. There is every reason to get vaccinated, but there aren't reasons to not."
USA Today: Obama urges vaccinations for children
What happened to NJ Governor Chris Christie is a scary example of what happens to anyone who says anything negative about the one-size-fits-all vaccination schedule or who promotes giving the final say to parents.
Feb 2, 2015, NY Times: Christie Says Parents Should Have 'Choice' on Vaccinations
In remarks here, Mr. Christie at first stopped short of recommending that parents immunize their children against measles, or any other illness, calling for "balance" and "choice." But his remarks quickly set off an outcry, prompting the governor to modify his position about an hour later and declare, through a spokesman, that "there is no question kids should be vaccinated."
Mr. Christie, when asked about the connection between the new measles cases and parents who object to the long-recommended vaccine against it, said that he and his wife had vaccinated their four children. He called that "the best expression I can give you of my opinion."
But he added: "It's more important what you think as a parent than what you think as a public official. I also understand that parents need to have some measure of choice in things as well. So that's the balance that the government has to decide."
Mr. Christie said that "not every vaccine is created equal, and not every disease type is as great a public health threat as others."
Mr. Obama on Sunday night issued an unambiguous call for parents to have their children vaccinated. He called the scientific rationale for using the vaccines "pretty indisputable."
Mr. Christie did not offer any such urgency or firmness in his original remarks. That prompted a scolding response from the White House. Mr. Obama's senior adviser, Dan Pfeiffer, took to Twitter to request that Mr. Christie "clarify" his statement. "It's important that responsible leaders speak with one voice," Mr. Pfeiffer wrote.
The reaction was swift and stinging.
NBC News: Chris Christie Clarifies Vaccine Remarks
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Monday said the government needs to strike a "balance" between public health and parental choice in making decisions about vaccinating kids, even as an outbreak of measles is spreading among unvaccinated people in the United States. But hours later, his office sent out a clarification of those remarks.
"We vaccinate ours [kids], and so, you know that's the best expression I can give you of my opinion," Christie first told reporters when asked if he would urge Americans to vaccinate their children. "You know it's much more important what you think as a parent than what you think as a public official. And that's what we do. But I also understand that parents need to have some measure of choice in things as well, so that's the balance that the government has to decide."
The governor's office issued a statement later Monday morning to clarify his remarks, stating: "The Governor believes vaccines are an important public health protection and with a disease like measles there is no question kids should be vaccinated. At the same time different states require different degrees of vaccination, which is why he was calling for balance in which ones government should mandate." . . .
Pressed by reporters about whether he believes vaccines are dangerous, Christie responded: "I didn't say that - I said different disease types can be more lethal so that the concern would be measuring whatever the perceived danger is by a vaccine and we've had plenty of that over a period of time versus what the risk to public health is. And that's exactly what I mean by what I said."
President Obama on Sunday told Americans, "get your kids vaccinated." He told NBC News' Savannah Guthrie, "The science is, you know, pretty indisputable."
Democrats jumped on Christie's statement, saying his comments show his embrace of "junk science."
"If his campaign is going to be about kissing up to the radical, conspiracy theory base that's wagging the dog of today's Republican Party, that's up to him and his cracker-jack team," said Democratic National Committee spokesman Mo Elleithee. "But if he wants to actually be a leader, then he should stop bowing to junk science and take a cue from President Obama by showing leadership that promotes facts and keeps our children and our nation safe."
Someone put this comment on a story on my blog. ...Chilling to say the least. Autism Speaks readily tells us, "Another child is diagnosed with autism every 15 minutes," YET NO ONE CARES.
When will we start to care about autism like we seem to about measles?
About 8 million children are born in the US each year. If we assume the one-in-68 autism prevalence that is usually quoted, 118 thousand children are born each year that will develop autism. There is strong evidence that vaccines cause the neurological damage of autism.
This article is worried that measles has infected 84 people, but it ignores the 118 thousand children developing autistic neurological damage each year because of vaccines.
They are so paralyzed by what's happened to our children that the only thing they can possibly do is continue the lies and the cover-up. What else is there? They have to make vaccines something about reproach. They can never recognize autism for the devastating epidemic that it truly is and they can never allow that vaccines carry real risks.
So when does this house of cards finally come down on them (and us)?
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Obama encourages people to get vaccinations to spread measles. Even Merck package insert claims that you can get measles, mumps or rubella from their vaccine.
Posted by: no-vac | February 03, 2015 at 05:31 PM
Wow! This is good news!
http://vaxtruth.org/2014/08/how-many-african-american-children-have-been-harmed-by-cdc-fraud/
For Barry: This comment was posted by bayareamom earlier this week.
UPDATE 02/01/2015:
"Sources have confirmed that Dr. William Thompson (senior scientist at The CDC) has been granted Official Whistleblower Status and immunity. This paves the way for Dr. William Thompson to go before the United States Congress and testify about the CDC FRAUD regarding vaccine safety and to explain the thousands of documents that have been turned over to congressional representatives..."
Posted by: Jenny | February 03, 2015 at 12:55 PM
Obama and all the other lefties better remember the last elections and how tired people are of corruption. They don't appreciate it evidently.
Posted by: Concerned momma | February 03, 2015 at 12:54 PM
Obama thinks the vaccine-autism link has been looked at and in some peculiar way he thinks this has been done by him?
This propaganda frenzy reminds me of the run-up to the Iraq war but even more extreme.
Posted by: Carol | February 03, 2015 at 10:22 AM
“I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed.”
If that isnt a whistle blown I dont know what .
The CDC committed fraud to hide a direct link showing vaccines cause autism .
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I think you missed my point.
I appreciate his courage for coming forward. And although I'm sickened by the part where he tries to limit this travesty to just African American males…. I view his statements as egregious admissions of guilt.
My point is that although we keep calling this guy a whistleblower, does anyone know which government agency that he made his admission to? Or why, in the 5 or so months since, they appear to have done nothing about it?
Posted by: Barry | February 03, 2015 at 07:26 AM
"Mr. Obama on Sunday night issued an unambiguous call for parents to have their children vaccinated. He called the scientific rationale for using the vaccines "pretty indisputable."
The scientific rationale for using vaccines is either "indisputable" or not .. which clearly indicates .. President Obama's use of the qualifier "pretty" is by no means an "unambiguous" call for parents to have their child vaccinated.
Christie said .. "We vaccinate ours [kids], and so, you know that's the best expression I can give you of my opinion,"
What does "vaccinate" mean to Gov Christie? Every vaccine on the schedule? If Gov Christie has vaccinated his children with every recommended and approved vaccine in New Jersey .. let him say so .. otherwise .. tell us what specific vaccines his children received.
Mr. Christie also said that "not every vaccine is created equal, and not every disease type is as great a public health threat as others."
Well said . but .. what Gov Christie did not say was "every child has an immune system that is as unique to that child as are their fingerprints and DNA .. which makes the likelihood of science creating a safe and effective "one size fits all child" not only scientifically improbable .. it would be scientifically "impossible".
As Christie said .. each STATE has their own recommended and approved schedule for children living in that particular STATE .. and .. what makes those State Legislators any more wiser than PARENTS deciding what vaccines their child will receive?
In any event .. I think the ongoing scare-mongering .. media circus over measles ... may seriously backfire on the vaccine cartel .. because .. having a national "media and political" debate on mandatory vaccinations of children is NOT going to be a "solution" for the cartel .. it will surely become a "problem" that has gone unchallenged for too many decades now.
Those media personalities ... who now have a "dog in this fight" .. such as .. Meagan Kelly of Fox .. who are "demonizing" parents for wanting to exercise their right of "informed consent" .. are risking their professional careers by exposing themselves as either being "uninformed" .. or .. even worse .. arrogantly "indifferent" to the justifiable concerns of worried parents.
Posted by: Bob Moffitt | February 03, 2015 at 06:21 AM
Barry , the President of the US made a "panic style" interview before the superbowl .
and the White House made a statement the day before too .
Please dont stop vaccinating .
Vaccines dont cause autism . Panic , panic , panic .
Wah wah wah .
Can you not see his calmness and appeal was a cloak of bluff to hide the fact they are on the run .
The 1 billion tweets on Twitter has then totally rattled .
They tried Ebola , they are trying measles at disneyland ,
now they are begging us (please dont revolt little people - we need to be able to murder you and all your descendants)
If vaccines are the cause of autism , as we know they are , governments have lost all rights and validation to collect taxes from us (which they then use to pay for the poison to murder our children.)
“I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed.”
If that isnt a whistle blown I dont know what .
The CDC committed fraud to hide a direct link showing vaccines cause autism .
Posted by: Who is William Thompson ? | February 03, 2015 at 03:56 AM
By Senator Rand Paul (R- Kentucky) - A ray of sensibility by a national figure commenting on the measles hysteria ginned up by CDC and the rest of the Vaccine Charlatans:
“I’ve heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines,” he said on CNBC. “I’m not arguing vaccines are a bad idea — I think they’re a good thing. But I think the parent[s] should have some input — the state doesn’t own your children; parents own the children and it is an issue of freedom.”
Posted by: david m burd | February 03, 2015 at 02:04 AM
Gwen Ifill twice flubbed her scripted lines while pushing vaccines on the PBS News Hour last night. She seemed nervous. Did anyone else notice that?
As for Obama, one of his daughters is said to have asthma. When I was growing up, kids didn't get asthma. I wonder if she could possibly have become asthmatic as a result of...oh, never mind.
Posted by: Rae | February 03, 2015 at 01:33 AM
the media is nothing but a propaganda machine spewing a lot of hot air. look at the polls. Of the 8218 people who voted on the USA Today poll, 92% favor vaccine choice. what does that tell you? the media can squawk all they want about measles but Americans still want to preserve their freedom to choose.
here are the USA Today poll results
https://www.wedgies.com/question/54caf91e68d8260400000d7b
Posted by: Autismmom | February 02, 2015 at 11:56 PM
Megan kelly on Fox was going ballistic on Fox saying over and over that vaccine safety is settled science while another guest clown said there were hundreds of way to get autism including alchoholism and hitting your head on something.
I see pharma using this latest measles scare to get the Feds to mandate vaccines and take choice away from the people.
Noone mentions that they still do not know what causes autism or that there are so many people damaged by vaccines that they needed to have a special court set up with a National vaccine compensation program.They also have not mentioned the many vaccine recalls and what became of those that were injected with dirty vaccines that were not recalled fast enough.
Posted by: autism360 | February 02, 2015 at 11:32 PM
do you think we might have them rattled ?
William Thompson cdc whistleblower changed everything
No going back now .
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When did he actually 'blow' that whistle? And to whom?
Posted by: Barry | February 02, 2015 at 10:19 PM
My son was never diagnosed with autism as a young child. He was labeled with the going diagnosis of that time (2001) which was ADD. He had a variety of issues including early motoric hyperactivity, environmental allergies, sleep disorder, anxiety disorder, dysthymia, auditory processing disorder, sensory integration issues, and fine motor deterioration. He began his life on a beautiful sunny day in Miami, with perfect Apgar scores. He met all of his developmental milestones ahead of schedule, but the bizarre extreme hyperactivity from 16 months on was completely baffling.He would go on to eventually struggle with socialization and academics, and be labeled with an array of psychiatric disorders. We tried just about every medication to try to help him, as well as counseling. He would eventually be diagnosed with ocular myasthenia gravis, POTS, mild Asperger's (age 14), hypogammaglobulinemia (no one suggested we test him for immune dysfunction before vaccinating),debilitating headaches, tremor and PANDAS (which we eventually figured out after a severe bout of OCD following a sore throat). Sadly, it was only at the age of 20 that we figured this out, and according to the PANDAS specialist, this is likely what he struggled with his entire life. He was found dead slumped over his computer, and while the autopsy showed a dangerous level of meds, it also showed severe left ventricular hypertrophy, which some PANDAS docs feel was strep related.
My point is that there are soooo many children who have suffered neuropsychiatric disorders and autoimmune/immune disorders which aren't classified as autistic disorder. It is just a matter of time now until this becomes so blatantly obvious to everyone. Many parents of these children/teens still don't realize these are ALL disorders of immune dysfunction, and while other factors are also at play, what has changed dramatically is the massive immunizations kids are receiving. There just isn't any getting around this fact, and it is a crime of epic proportions that this continues to be covered up.
Posted by: Karen Woytowitz | February 02, 2015 at 09:16 PM
I'm with you on this measles hysteria; it's beginning to make me hysterical. Still, in reality it is all a media bluff, and it might break open the debate on the issue of autism, the MMR, and the William Thompson confession. Sooner or later someone is going to bring it up. At least that is my hope.
Posted by: kapoore | February 02, 2015 at 08:32 PM
https://www.facebook.com/DrRobertJRowen/posts/327878564076818
More doctors who speak out about the truth in regards to vaccine and disease. Erin Burnett should be ashamed of herself with her piece tonight talking about where the "anti vaccine movement origninated from." What a waste of time. Why didn't she mention Dr. Thompson or autism increase instead?
Posted by: Concerned momma | February 02, 2015 at 07:52 PM
Dr. Armand Dorian apparently knows better than one of the CDC's very own vaccine researchers, who recently stated that research was falsified. He and Erin Burnett really have their nerve to lie and knowingly omit information on this public safety issue.
Posted by: Concerned momma | February 02, 2015 at 07:39 PM
http://www.mediaite.com/online/president-obama-once-suggested-vaccines-might-cause-autism/
Extract:-
President Obama Once Suggested Vaccines Might Cause Autism
by Tina Nguyen | 2:22 pm, February 2nd, 2015
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"This is a somewhat different position than he took before he became President: As the Washington Post reported back in 2008, Obama said that the vaccine-autism link could possibly exist during a Pennsylvania town hall, after being asked about how the government planned to fund special education for autistic children. Notably, it appears that the man in the audience did not ask about vaccines, but in any case, Obama made the connection:
“We’ve seen just a skyrocketing autism rate. Some people are suspicious that it’s connected to the vaccines. This person included. [Points to someone in the audience.] The science right now is inconclusive, but we have to research it. We can’t afford to junk our vaccine system, we have to figure out what’s happening. If we keep on seeing the increases in the rate we’re seeing, we’re never going to have enough money” to take care of these children."
Posted by: Jenny Allan | February 02, 2015 at 07:28 PM
Governor Chris Christie is worthy of the support of our community. He twice pocket vetoed a bill to mandate flu shots for HCWs (or for them to sign a declination form to be tracked by the State of NJ). Senator Rand Paul is also worthy of our support:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/02/rand-paul-child-vaccinations_n_6599560.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
We would be positively stupid not to support these two potential presidential candidates. Stupid!
Posted by: Not an MD | February 02, 2015 at 07:26 PM
..."This article is worried that measles has infected 84 people, but it ignores the 118 thousand children developing autistic neurological damage each year because of vaccines."
I don't give a rat's --- how many measles cases there are at this point. It pales in comparison to the fact that AUTISM is what is crippling this country! My God, if they sounded the alarm about autism the way they are going on about a few measles cases, we might actually get somewhere. But then, we'd have to deal with that pesky "causation" issue, wouldn't we? No, it's so much safer for the CDC to just keep to the bogus "better diagnosis" theory. It's beyond sickening.
I'm now a single issue voter. I'd vote for anyone who would honestly tackle this crisis, as nothing else really matters. If you destroy the health of the majority of your population, you've got nothing left, anyway. This course we are on is completely insane!
Posted by: Anne J | February 02, 2015 at 07:23 PM
NJ Governor Chris Christie said:- "It's more important what you think as a parent than what you think as a public official. I also understand that parents need to have some measure of choice in things as well. So that's the balance that the government has to decide."
Mr. Christie said that "not every vaccine is created equal, and not every disease type is as great a public health threat as others."
Most right thinking persons would regard this as a perfectly reasonable public statement. But 'reasonable' public statements are regarded as heresy when they refer to vaccines. Is America a land of free speech, and informed consent to all medicines and procedures-as per post Hitler Nuremnberg Convention? It seems NOT when it comes to vaccines.
Maybe we don't burn 'heretics' at the stake any more. Instead, we hound them out of their jobs, and subject them and their families to a lifetime of vilification. When Dr Sherri Tenpenny agreed to give a few vaccine information talks, during a holiday in Australia, the venue owners were targeted with bomb threats and thuggery. Of course Dr Tenpenny cancelled both the speaking engagements and her own holiday. How could she do otherwise when not only her own safety, but that of the attendees was threatened? Australia, like the US, preens itself about Citizens' rights to free speech and democracy. Hitler and Stalin would have approved.
As Governer Christie stated, "not every vaccine is created equal". Perhaps he was not consciously being Orwellian, but yes some vaccines, and some sections of humanity are definitely 'more equal than others'.
Posted by: Jenny Allan | February 02, 2015 at 06:57 PM
do you think we might have them rattled ?
William Thompson cdc whistleblower changed everything
No going back now .
Posted by: Who is William Thompson ? | February 02, 2015 at 06:36 PM