By Ted Kuntz

The argument made for denying a public education to children who are selectively vaccinated or unvaccinated is the risk they pose to the immune-compromised who can’t be vaccinated. It’s a heart-warming story motivated out of compassion for those children who are medically fragile. Or is it?

If we take these pro-mandate advocates at their word, then it would follow that we also cannot allow any child or adult to attend our public schools and daycares who isn’t fully immunized. This means not just being vaccinated, but rather genuinely immunized against infectious diseases.

So, this begs the question(s):

1. Are immune-compromised children who can’t be vaccinated allowed to attend school and daycare?
2. Is the 10% of the population who are non-responders to vaccination allowed to attend schools and daycares?
3. Is the significant percent of the population whose antibody levels have waned allowed to attend schools, daycares and other public spaces?
4. Is titre testing being conducted to determine who has adequate antibody levels and therefore safe to attend school and daycare?
5. And, if disease transmission is really what the proponents of vaccine mandates are worried about, then shouldn’t those children recently vaccinated with live-virus vaccines also be excluded from schools and public spaces until the viral shedding has ceased?

If mandate proponents aren’t demanding all of these individuals be excluded from schools, daycares and other public spaces, then one has to wonder whether the transmission of disease really is their primary concern.

It’s Not About Medical Risk

I think we all know the answers to these questions. None of the unvaccinated immune-compromised children are denied access to a public education. None of the non-responders to vaccination are denied a public education. None of the significant number of children and adults whose immunity has waned are denied a public education. We know there is no required titre testing to determine who is actually immune and who is not. And there is no acknowledgement given, much less consideration of the viral shedding from the recently vaccinated. A child can be vaccinated with a live virus vaccine and be back in their classroom within minutes.

This means that the restrictions being imposed upon selectively vaccinated or unvaccinated children is not about medical risk. It is not about the transmission of disease. It is not about the safety of the public space. If it really was about medical risk and the transmission of disease, these other unvaccinated and unimmunized children and adults, as well as those recently vaccinated with live virus vaccines would also be deprived of a public education and access to public spaces. But that will never happen.

Note: Security guards. Cards to be shown to gain admittance. Expulsions. In New York. I'm having some difficulty locating good info on what is a "Satmar" school except that it is a religious, Jewish school, nor can I find much of anything about this particular school in Monsey, NY. There is a complicated relationship between the Orthodox community and the education system and non-Orthodox world of which I know little.  I am not defending or damning the school in this article below. I invite readers with more knowledge to email me at KimRossi1111@gmail.com and/or in the comments, please.  Thanks.

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Satmar in Monsey took a bold stance against anti-vaxxers. Notices were sent out yesterday that the schools need all immunization records. Today all Girls who did not have them were expelled and were not allowed to enter.

The school hired a security guard who will not allow any kids who can’t show an Immunization card which every kid has to present every time they enter the school.

Reports claim girls were crying outside the building.

‘UTA Satmar school in Monsey NY posting hired security guards at the entrance, to prevent non-vaccinated children from entering. Highly irresponsible of parents to put through their children to such an ordeal.’ Tweeted Yosef Rapaport.

Read more at GreaterLakewood.com.

Note: Matthew Walther wrote this op-ed in The Week. Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers. He is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.

Likely to be lost amid all the liberal preening about the mandatory vaccination bill signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week is the fact that, during the period covered by the so-called "epidemic," not a single person has died from a confirmed case of measles in the state of New York. The sun and moon have not dropped from the sky and the red-splotched corpses of thousands of victims do not litter the streets of Brooklyn.

Nor are they likely to do so. Everyone involved knows this. The new law is legislation of the very worst kind — passed in a fit of self-aggrandizing indignation and meant to affect a single group of people who are all but named. I am referring to the minority of Orthodox Jews in New York who have refused to vaccinate their children and whose objections were, until last week, granted specific legal protection. This is not a question of so-called "association" or "public accommodations." No one is demanding the right to send unvaccinated children to public schools, nor are the post-faith bobos of today's Williamsburg likely to send their own children, if they have any, to receive an Orthodox education. The new law is about power and control for their own sake.

Note: Printable version of this post is here.

By Laura Hayes

Importance:

• No one, including the government, has the right to insist that another person, or another person’s child, be injected with anything.
  
  
• Without the right to refuse vaccinations, one cannot protect oneself and one’s children from the known, and yet to be known, harm from vaccinations, including death.
  
  
• Medical mandates of any sort, including vaccine mandates, cannot exist in a free and ethical society.
  
  
• Vaccinations are not benign. They are invasive medical procedures. Each and every one has the potential to injure, make chronically ill, permanently disable, and kill. The risks increase when they are given together, as is routinely done, beginning in utero, then continued during infancy, toddlerhood, throughout childhood, and now into adulthood. Today’s American child will receive 74 vaccines from gestation through age 18, with more vaccine recommendations/mandates likely to be added with each passing year. The majority of those will be given before age 6, during the most vulnerable and prime time of the child’s development. Substitute the word “drugs” for “vaccines”, and then ask what parent would want their child to receive scores of drugs, beginning in utero, then continued at regular and frequent intervals throughout childhood…drugs which then lead to more drugs, due to resultant ear infections, asthma, allergies, type 1 diabetes, seizure disorders, attention issues, GI issues, skin problems, paralysis, POTS, ovarian and fertility problems, cancer, and more.
  
  
• Vaccines contain ingredients that are known and admitted to be unsafe for humans. These include: mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, polysorbate 80, phenol, MSG, sodium borate, antibiotics, viruses and retroviruses of both human and animal origin, aborted fetal material from human babies, food proteins (injected vs. ingested), glass shards/particles, lead, stainless steel, tungsten, HCG, egg and yeast proteins, glyphosate, and more. Furthermore, vaccines contain ingredients that are not required to be listed on their ingredient labels, so neither those administering vaccines nor those receiving them can fully or accurately know what is being injected. Additionally, recent studies performed in Italy have revealed that vaccines contain nanoparticles and nanocontaminants which are not listed on the ingredients lists. These are ingredients for which the human body has no use, and which it may not be able to expel.
  
  
• The listing above includes ingredients that are classified as poisons, carcinogens, toxins, neurotoxins, immune-and-nervous-system disruptors, allergens, fertility inhibitors, and sterilizing agents. They are known and admitted to cause and/or purposefully induce both toxicity and inflammation, which are known drivers of chronic illnesses, autoimmune issues, learning and developmental disabilities, infertility, premature deaths, and sudden deaths.
  
  
• One vaccine ingredient, thimerosal, is known and admitted to be so dangerous to human health that it has been banned from topical use. Unbelievably, however, it is still permitted to be included in vaccines, which are far more dangerous as they are injected.

This Updated 6/20: announcement below is no victory. (Thanks to those who have clarified the net result.) While it's good news for the moment not to have public health bureaucrats approving medical exemptions to vaccination, it's clear that the push is on to punish doctors who provide them to patients. A solution would be for all physicians to respect parental choice and to offer exemptions to those with a family history of vaccination contraindications. Share the burden. There's strength in numbers. If parents could have safe, private conversations about their concerns with their doctors, the system would work better and parents would not HAVE to "doctor shop," which  makes them sounds like Opioid drug addicts looking for Dr. Feelgood and a Pill Mill. 

The contraindications to vaccines are usually far more severe than the disease for which the vaccine purports to prevent. Seizures, for instance, are worse than chicken pox as a rule. And the fact is, no one knows if they will have an adverse side effect or an allergic reaction to a product they have never tried - until it's too late. It's not like you can have an epi-pen at your side the first time you give your child peanut butter. There is no testing for vaccine reactions.  It's Russian roulette.

California public health officials would have more oversight of doctors and schools with high numbers of medical exemptions for vaccinations under a legislative compromise announced Tuesday.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and the bill's author disclosed the deal aimed at cracking down on fraudulent exemptions issued by sympathetic doctors.

The updated measure by Sen. Richard Pan removes a provision that would have required health officials to consider every exemption requested and expands the criteria for granting exemptions.

The California bill is aimed at deterring "doctor-shopping." Proponents, including medical and pediatric associations, said some doctors have been selling immunization exemptions since California ended non-medical exemptions in 2016. Read more at The Olympian.

Photo source Rick Shureih

A sad event on Father's Day.

Look at this disgusting screen shot from Facebook. The Onion is a satire site, usually funny and silly.  There is nothing funny about this dig at Robert Kennedy because of his social justice work surrounding vaccinations. It's the bottom of the barrel. Cruel in the extreme. A thinly veiled invitation to violence. For Merck to sell MMR shots?  To poke the eye of a man whose father was assassinated? Whose Uncle was President and assassinated? Appalling. 

Those of us who promote vaccination choice and change are the only target in America without any protection. None. Nada. Zero. Zip. It's open season on us. On our rights. On our kids' right to an education. Social Media, mainstream media, the United States Government, State governments all encourage, no, DEMAND, that we are systematically destroyed. Get scared. Get angry.

To Robert Kennedy, we are so sorry to see this happen to you. We thought that maybe, with your American pedigree, just maybe you would spared this treatment and the tide would have already have changed. But the tide will still change. And we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for NOT giving up the fight to protect children.

Anne Dachel transcribed Rep Adam Schiff's speech from June 13, 2019, on the dangers of “vaccine hesitancy” and what to do about it. See FB post here.

“I rise today to offer an amendment in support of vaccines and the medical effectiveness. Specifically my amendment would direct $5 million to amplify a public health campaign to promote vaccine usage and combat hesitancy.

These funds would support the work of the national vaccine program within the office of infectious disease policy and HIV aids, which provides a framework for pursuing the prevention of infectious diseases through immunizations. It is the nation’s leading roadmap in articulating a comprehensive strategy to develop new and approved vaccines, enhance the vaccine safety system, and support communications to enhance vaccine decision making.

Each year vaccines are estimated to save two to three million lives worldwide. Due to effective vaccination campaigns, what were once referred to as the usual diseases of childhood, are now considered vaccine preventable diseases.

Unfortunately, vaccines are a victim of their own success. These monumental public health achievements have contributed to a false perception that disease threats are minimal and that routine vaccination is no longer necessary.  

This year alone we have witnessed numerous outbreaks of measles across the country—a disease that was once considered eradicated in the United States.

Declining vaccination rates pose an imminent threat to public health. In fact the World Health Organization has identified vaccine hesitancy as a top global health threat for 2019.

There is strong evidence to suggest that at least part of the source of this trend is the degree to which medically inaccurate information about vaccines surfaces on websites where many Americans get their information.

Repetition of information, even if false, can often be mistaken for accuracy. And exposure to anti-vaccine content via social media may negatively sharp user attitudes towards vaccination.

The emergence of vaccine hesitancy as an increasingly common theme in health care settings demands attention. And it is imperative for public health officials to take a necessary and critical step to flip the script from vaccine hesitancy to vaccine confidence to protect and bolster the public health.

The scientific and medical communities are in overwhelming consensus that vaccines are both effective and safe.

There is no evidence to suggest that vaccines cause life-threatening or disabling diseases and the dissemination of unfounded or debunked theories about the dangers of vaccination pose a great risk to the public health.

Support for the national vaccine program in coordinating a national public health campaign to fight vaccine misinformation is imperative.

It is essential now more than ever that we fund vaccine communication research to strengthen the evidence-based for what works in fighting vaccine hesitance, combating misinformation and encouraging responsible vaccine decision-making.    

Jessica Biel is getting the Jenny treatment for speaking out against California's crackdown on medical choice for families who choose not to vaccinate per the bloated CDC schedule.  There are countless celebs who do not fully follow the schedule - they remain silent. Please thank Mrs. Justin Timberlake for having the courage to enter this storm.  Supporting choice is NOT being anti-vaccine.

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From Canoe.com read the fully story at the site.

Justin Timberlake has shown his support for his wife Jessica Biel, after she was heavily criticized for her vaccination stance.

Earlier this week, The Sinner star joined politician and outspoken anti-vaccination advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the California State Capitol in Sacramento to lobby against the proposed SB 276 bill.

The legislation, which was launched in March by California senator and pediatrician Dr. Richard Pan, would limit medical exemptions from vaccinations without approval from a state public health officer.

Although Biel later clarified that she wasn’t anti-vaccines, the 37-year-old actress has been the subject of intense criticism online.

By Cathy Jameson

June 14^th, Flag Day

Dear Diary,

Wherever we lived when I was a child, we had a flag.  At one house, where we had a flagpole in our front yard, one of us kids had the job of raising the flag each morning.  Some days it was a chore for me because I didn’t give myself enough time to raise it as slowly or respectfully as I should’ve.  But as a military brat, it truly was an honor to fly the flag.  Years later, when I was off on my own, I learned about Flag Day, a day when Americans can take a moment to honor Old Glory and what it stands for.  A proud American, I’ve always looked forward to June 14^th.

I always remember one of my students on this day, too.  It’s her birthday today. 

Now in her late-twenties, I think back to that class she was in, which was one of my first (and favorite!) classes, and wonder where she and some of her classmates are.  Through the grapevine, I’ve heard that she may be married.  What a treat to know that “my kids” have matured and blossomed into adulthood!  I’ve kept in touch with a handful of other kids that I’ve taught and am always so touched that they keep in contact with me.  Several of them are parents now, and surely, other of my former students will follow in that role in the years to come.  Like that flag of ours, I’ve always been proud of the kids I’ve been blessed to watch grow up. 

I’ve begun to worry about them, though, Diary. 

The older I get, and the more freedoms I see being taken away, I can’t imagine what sort of world their kids are going to grow up in.  Already across several states, young parents will not be allowed to parent as I have.  One single woman who I’d taught many years ago reached out to me when she’d read that the CDC’s MMR vaccine study was not accurate and was published with manipulated information.  Not yet a parent, I could understand why she was distraught.  She’s a young black woman.  Always so upbeat and kind, I didn’t want to scare her, but I had to make sure she knew the truth.  I confirmed that what she’d read, that the CDC lied to the public and misrepresented their autism findings in young black boys, was the truth.  Would this information change anything for her and for her or her future children? 

I’m sure it would. 

We'd like to wish our readers who are Dads, StepDads, Grandfathers and other versions of a Father a very happy Father's Day 2019.

A Father protects his family. Feeds them. Houses them. Makes sure they have the basics and if able, luxuries. He knows his children as well as (but maybe differently than) their mother. He  puts his children above himself. 

I'm describing my own father, who died in 2017 at age 92.

Toward the end of his life, he'd take me aside, and tell me the details of his life insurance, the house, all the ways he would look out for my Mom (who is 17 years his junior) when he died.  He used to slip me a $20, even when he was no longer earning an income.  I can hear him when I was a teenager, "Put a dime in your shoe, in case you need to call." A quaint memory from another time, before technology. Several months, ago, I was training in our dojo (karate school) and I found a dime in the most impossible place on the floor. "Hi, Dad!"

He knew my life was difficult. (None of us have easy, lives, from this I know!) But not just because of the girls' autism. He knew. And he'd always ask me, "Kimbo, are you OK?"

Dad, I'm better than OK. Your girls and your Kimbo are thriving. We miss you. On this Father's Day, 2019.

Jiminy Cricket, you'd think an illustrious paper like the New York Post could spell their headlines better. Madonn'.....

Here's their headline after Governor Cuomo and the Democrats jammed through the removal of the religious exemption in the Empire State on Thursday.

Anti-vaxxers lose minds after religious exemption bill gets pushed through

The article then goes on to paint Orthodox Jewish citizens as crazy men - in classic narcissistic gas-lighting style. "These people are religious?"  Yes, and they are angry and they stood up for the rights of EVERY citizen in the state of New York.   Mark our words - adult mandates are coming down the Hudson river.  New York is now vying with California for the most heavy handed, jack booted medical thuggery in the nation.

Sports fans take to the streets lighting cars on fire and looting stores after a big win. Aw, heck, they're just fans letting off steam.  Riots have taken place over the decades for equal rights - Stonewall as one example. In New York City. THIS is how America was formed - not by complacency. And yelling is HARDLY an example of violence.  Swears?  Oh the delicate ears of New York politicians!  What an insult to the Jewish Community and ALL of our friends and neighbors and advocates who spent time to fight this travesty.

New Yorkers just lost the right to say no to any school mandated vaccinations. Their kids will not be educated. How is this remotely American? Stay tuned.

Anti-vaxxers lose minds after religious exemption bill gets pushed through

“And these are the religious people?!”

The state Capitol turned into a chaotic scene Thursday as both houses of legislature — and eventually Gov. Cuomo — passed a bill that will end New York’s policy of allowing religious exemptions from vaccine requirements.

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, the bill’s sponsor, got cursed out and flat-out threatened at one point by opponents of the legislation after it got passed and sent to the Senate floor.

“We’ll be back for you Jeffrey!” shouted one man in Orthodox religious garb, who was fuming in the gallery with others, many of whom had children with them.

“Motherf–ker!” screamed another person. “Shame!”

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed legislation Thursday to end religious exemptions for vaccines.

The legislation comes as the U.S. grapples with one of its worst outbreaks of measles in years. Cuomo signed the bill almost immediately after the New York state Senate and Assembly advanced the measure."The science is crystal clear: Vaccines are safe, effective and the best way to keep our children safe. This administration has taken aggressive action to contain the measles outbreak, but given its scale, additional steps are needed to end this public health crisis," Cuomo said in a statement.

Governor Cuomo, we have countless disabled children who prove otherwise. The measles outbreaks were a Trojan Horse to remove freedom of medical decisions. Healthy children will be banned from school from The Hamptons to Buffalo. The USA now has bookend states, New York and California, where one party has trounced the freedoms of the entire population for pharma's gain. This isn't about measles. Never was. It's about the state controlling your health and healthcare so that industry profits.

Read more at The Hill.

Protest March and Press Conference

March Starts: 12 pm

San Francisco Chronicle
901 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Press Conference: 1pm
City Attorney's Office
1390 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

CITIZENS UNITE TO DEMAND THE SUBPOENA AGAINST DR. KEN STOLLER BE WITHDRAWN THAT DOCTOR PATIENT PRIVACY BE UPHELD and SB276 BE VOTED OUT

Our Call to Action:

1. Demanding that San Francisco City Attorney, Dennis Herrera, withdraw the subpoena he issued against Dr. Ken Stoller, requiring that he turn over medical records containing sensitive genetic information of his patients who are medically exempt from vaccinations. The City Attorney’s actions are an affront to the rights of all patients worldwide and must be stopped. If not, we can expect other government entities to follow in his steps.

2. To stand UNITED in defeating SB 276 which if passed, would eliminate a physician's expert-based authority to write medical exemptions for patients he/she deems vaccine-fragile. This protocol would instead be placed in the hands of government bureaucrats who are not required to ever examine our children and are complete strangers to the patients and their families. Some may very well not have a license to practice medicine.

Members of the American Medical Association voted this week to support state policies that would allow minors to override their parent’s objections to vaccinations.

Moving forward, the AMA will encourage state lawmakers to institute comprehensive vaccine and minor consent policies, according to a news release. The policy recommendation came Monday during the group’s annual meeting in Chicago. Read more here.

Really AMA? Not sure why the AMA is doing the AAP's work for starters. And then there's this: kids have to be 21 to choose other behaviors/products with risk - like cigarette smoking and drinking.  One drink or one cig will not kill or harm a 14 year old. But one Gardasil shot can. 

Remember friends, the AMA is like the AAP but for grown ups, they are the UNION for doctors. A UNION. A union's job is to protect the financial well being of its members. Unions are sometimes what one might call..... oh let's see, hmmm, (mumbles Jimmy Hoffa) less than a lily white bride on her wedding night pure.

My response to the suggestion that MINORS should make their own medical decisions for vaccination is this:

1) Fine! As long as the doctor and every nurse in the practice are held legally liable - by  name, address and social security number. Signatures on every sheet of paper. A paper trail as long as a CVS receipt.

2) Great! There must be a print out of every vaccine insert blown up and on the wall of every room and waiting room, preferably on Team Umizoomi background paper.

3) Before the child can say, "Boy Howdy! Gimme that DTaP!" he must undergo a full neuropsych evaluation and IQ testing, and an MRI.  Parents must be provided with the results. These tests cost thousands, the practice will happily pay the costs to allow Janey and Johnny their medical freedom of choice.  Each child must also have a speech and OT evaluation to determine baseline status.

3) After vaccination, the doctor's office must agree to FREE follow up visits at 1 month, 2 months, 4 months, 6, months, 9 months, 12 months, 24 months, 36 months, 48 months, and 60 months to review any changes to neurological, IQ or emotional status. Man, these will be LONG visits, not the 8 minutes allotted by insurance. None of these visits will be billable to insurance. Sorry Doc! We'll call them "WELL we warned you," VISITS. If the doctors want to make sure the kids are vaccinated, lost income is a small price to pay.

4) Malpractice insurance will have to be increased to cover the liability.

Any other suggestions, clever readers?

NOTE:  I've had a very good relationship with the school nurses over the years. Their job has become 1000x more challenging than they ever imagined. I've never been shamed or bullied when it comes to my girls' health. But I'm deep into the trenches of vaccine rights warfare. And a loud mouth.....  Other parents are not in this position. Like this Mom in the Bronx.

Welcome to 2019 in New York.  News 12 in The Bronx reports that a boy was given intrusive questions about his family  life AND an HPV vaccination after going to the nurse's office for an ice pack. School nurses must NOT become "Vaccilantes (vaccine vigilantes.)  Where is the sanctity of parental rights? This boy was up to date on his school required vaccinesm per his Mom. And STILL the nurse took it upon herself to vaccinate him withthe first of  a THREE dose shot that has known and serious side effects. Heck, the vaccine was first "sold" as a shot to prevent cervical cancer in GIRLS only. "One Less," was the slogan. A SLOGAN FOR A VACCINE - like it was Pepsi Cola. "Pepsi Cola hits the spot but not has much as this great shot!" Lord help us.  New York - BACK OFF.

In Albany, the New York Capital TODAY, A2371a, the bill to remove the religious exemption to attend school will be on the agenda for the Assembly Health Committee this Thursday, June 13. New York's religious exemption is on the line. Advocates for civil rights are in Albany today.

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Read and watch Video at News12

RIVERDALE -

A Bronx mother says her 11-year-old son was given an HPV vaccination without her permission during a routine trip to the school nurse’s office.

Roxsanna Gautreax says she was told over the phone by the nurse at The New School for Leadership and the Arts that her son had been accidentally injured and needed ice for his face.

When her son came home from school, she noticed a bright green Band-Aid on his arm. The boy then explained that the nurse gave him a shot.

By Anne Dachel

On May 21, 2019, Business Insider published a piece entitled, The anti-vaxx movement is fueling the measles epidemic by deliberately targeting communities most affected by the disease.

Hundreds of people, mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews, gathered at a rally in Rockland County, New York last week to listen as speakers ticked off a slew of unverified claims about vaccinations.

The story included prominent critics of the mandated vaccine program: Robert Kennedy, Jr. Del Bigtree, Barbara Loe Fisher, and Dr. Andrew Wakefield via Skype. Also in the gathering was an outspoken leader in the Orthodox Jewish community from Brooklyn, Rabbi William Handler. Brooklyn is an area where the measles outbreak is especially acute.

Readers were told that most of the attendees were “ultra Orthodox Jews,” and that these are “people who are mostly isolated from the outside world and have limited access to the internet or scientific research, can be particularly vulnerable to anti-vaxx rhetoric.”

At a May 14^th  rally in Albany Handler joined other activists in attacking a bill that would remove the right to a religious exemption from vaccines. “We have come here today to protest this latest desecration of God in culture to take away the religious exemption.” 

Handler has received coverage by such well-known vaccine defenders as the Washington Post and the New York Times.  A hit piece by Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura at the Times with the headline, Despite Measles Warnings, Anti-Vaccine Rally Draws Hundreds of Ultra-Orthodox Jews,  sounded more like an editorial than standard journalism.  Anyone questioning vaccine safety and calling for the right to exempt children were blamed for “the spread of misinformation.”

Handler was featured saying that his community has recently been demonized.  "We Hasidim have been chosen as the target... the campaign against us has been successful,” but the Times accused him of having  “falsely described the measles outbreak among Jews as part of an elaborate plan concocted by Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York to deflect attention from ‘more serious’ diseases brought by Central American migrants.”

There was of course no mention of any risk involved with mass vaccination with multiple vaccines at once, or the fact that the people making and giving the vaccines can’t be sued for injuries resulting from the shots.

(To understand the attitude at the NY Times, one need only to look at the 2011 story where in attacking the movie, The Greater Good, reporter Jeannette Catsoulis made this stunning statement:

“But while the film acknowledges that science has so far been consistent in its refutation of a vaccine-autism link, it fails to point out that even were such a link proved definitively, all that matters is that its victims number significantly fewer than those of the diseases vaccinations are designed to prevent.”)

While the real fear mongers warn about measles outbreaks, Rabbi Handler continues to call attention to individual civil rights along with questions about the safety and efficacy of the measles vaccine.

In this 4 minute video from June 4^th, Rabbi Handler explained his views.

Note: Our Anne Dachel has been cataloguing the demise of the pediatric brain for over a decade at Age of Autism. Our children are sicker than ever and increasingly incapable of functioning in a traditional American classroom. Behavior plans replaced weekend plans with friends.  Detention is a quaint remnant of another era, as arrests and calls to "211" have become the norm. Teachers find themselves needing to learn how to block, place a student into a submission, and restrain as if the classroom as become the Octagon.

Here in Connecticut, we have "PMT" training for educators.  It's supposed to support safe interactions during a behavior. But when there is violent aggression, staff are woefully unprepared. The result is more injury to staff in school. And that's never acceptable. At the same time, as a parent of three daughters with special needs, I know that restraints and submissions can maim, wound and even kill - think sleeper hold. It happens.  I teach martial arts. My Sensei and I have a class called ASD - Autism Self Defense, for families. The problem in schools is that teachers and staff can not use techniques that really work - that send a message. Stop. And let's face it, as parents we do not want them to touch our kids - not on a bet.  The answer isn't martial arts training for staff - that's ridiculous and would take years for any training to take affect.

But training is an issue - and discussed heavily in the article for Oregon which is part of a series. However, the real problem is this: 

“Have mental health people, have counselors so we don’t have to pull staff from other assignments,” said Winters. “Because that’s what happening right now. Principals are being pulled, other assistants.” 

Why the increase in disruptive behavior?  

There are several theories on why disruptive incidents are on the rise in Oregon classrooms but no in-depth research on what’s causing it.

Teachers say more trauma at home and less support in schools are the most obvious factors.

I call horsepucky and I know you do too. Trauma at home? Chances are the parents and siblings of these students are the ones facing trauma. Less support in schools? Nonsense - kids have 1 to 1s, lunch bunch, social worker teams, school psychologists, counselors and far more mental health support than any school ever imagined necessary. What's changed:

0 Food - it's chemical garbage

0 Vaccinations - more than 72 before first grade today with more in the queue

o Toxic chemicals everywhere, including school classrooms and grounds

o Tampering with the brain in utero with vaccinations, ultrasounds, medication and interactions at birth

o Tylenol at the first sign of any and all discomfort, including at vaccination visits

o Electromagnetic Frequencies

o Screen time

o Reduction in parental authority

o Changing the power structure from parent overseeing child to child bossing parent

And I'm sure there are many more suggestions. Feel free to share them.

Here's an article that is part of an excellent series from Oregon.  Thanks to Laura Hayes for sending it to me. Teachers are not working with teachable material, "normal" children, like their predecessors who taught our parents and grandparents and yes, most of us. Education is Ore-going, going, gone.

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From KGW-8 NBC TV in Portland, Oregon:

Classrooms in Crisis: Verbal, physical, sometimes violent outbursts plaguing Oregon classrooms

The situation has gotten so dire that the Oregon Education Association – the union that represents 44,000 teachers across the state – plans to release a report this week calling classroom disruptions a “significant and growing problem in Oregon classrooms.”

By Katie Wright

Who exactly was sitting at home thinking to themselves, “I cannot decide whether or not to vaccinate my child until Joe, Kerry and Kathleen Kennedy tell me what to do!!!!” Neither Joe, Kathleen nor Kerry is a vaccine expert, an autism expert, a published author on vaccine science and neither one has spoken at length with parents of vaccine injured children. Nevertheless, these three self styled vaccine science and autism pros felt compelled to weigh in on the subject in which they have no expertise, shamefully disparaging their brother in the process. 

I know a little about this. Many years ago my parents, Bob and Suzanne Wright, publicly denounced me and my concerns about vaccine safety. It was a big mistake and it lives forever. Siblings, colleagues, board members, friends and family members were horrified. Many disagreed, some vehemently so, with my vaccination concerns but all agreed a public condemnation of a family member is a base betrayal of what family means. We reconciled but was long, long, road getting there. 

In the case of Joe, Kathleen and Kerry Kennedy the needless and shameful public betrayal of their brother is impossible to understand. Did they actually believe they would convince anyone to vaccinate? Could they be that self important? Who knows? But I guarantee you that their sloppy op -ed, filled with errors, did not convince ONE parent to vaccinate their child. The gist of their post is that in many countries (notably not the USA) many children suffer and die from communicable disease. Neither Joe, Kathleen nor Kerry did their homework. Bobby Kennedy speaks about the American system of checks and balances in vaccine safety and the lack of independent oversight in the vaccine approval process. In what way does Americans asking for independent vaccine safety oversight create a measles catastrophe in third world countries? It is the same kind of ridiculous logic applied by those who argue against the teaching sex education in schools “because it will make children have sex.” Untrue and flat out dumb.

Joe, Kerry and Kathleen are all emotion and no logic in their post. They go on and on and on about the history of measles, smallpox and the “dedicated professionals” at “WHO” and the NIH. I know, I know, it's both funny and sad. First of all, WHO is basically employed by Pharma! WHO never meet a vaccine they didn't like! WHO still actively campaigns for the continued use of mercury in vaccines because it’s cheap. The fact that mercury is a well known and potent neurotoxin bothers them not in the least. Think about this...the Soviet Union banned thimerosal in 1990! The Soviet Union, a nation that doesn’t exactly have high consumer safety standards, banned thimerosal 30 years ago! But in countries and entities owned by Pharma, like the USA, the subject of mercury in vaccines is off limits. If one dares to question vaccine safety in the USA and one is immediately labelled a flat earth, anti science heretic whose only goal is to see the maximum amount of children die from contagious disease! And they call us emotional! The great irony is that ALL research on the subject shows that parents who have concerns about vaccine safety are the most highly educated. So education is the enemy?

From the Classic Sunday children's show Davey & Goliath: Davey Has the Measles

Hello, dear readers. Cat has the day 0ff for not one but two graduations in her family - 8th grade and high school! Cat has five children, and  you know them all thanks to her beautiful, sharing posts each Sunday. Ronan's siblings take such good care of him. The Jameson family is truly blessed. Cathy is a devout Catholic, who brings her faith to her writing in an open way that anyone, no matter their religion can relate to and appreciate.

Then there's Kim. 

I was on Twitter last week, and threw myself into the morass of vaccine Tweets. The true believers (think vats of Kook Aid and a space trip to the Mother Ship) are often so nasty to us, mothers of vaccine injured children. They are dismissive, cruel and taunting. We're the only group that people can beat on with impunity and the grace of the media.

First I tweeted this: Pharma loves me this I know. For my doctor tells me so.

Then I was struck by what could only have been divine intervention and channeled our version of the Child's bedtime prayer.

Now My child is on my lap. MMR, polio and DTaP. If his brain should catch on fire. The doctor will scoff and call me a liar.

World without end. Amen.

Prayer is meant to be shared. Share away.

Kim XOX

Please join us at  AutismAges.org - a forum based site to discuss the issues of autism and aging. If school is this tough on children, it's hard to think about what our not so cute full grown adult children will face as adults. We need to get busy now. Please join the site and start talking! 

By Kim Rossi

My God, everything is upside down and wrong today. Have you read about the piece of poop teacher in Indiana who gave a boy - preverbal with autism - like my Bella - a trophy for Most Annoying Male?  This "teacher"CHOSE HIS OR HER JOB (why don't any articles tell us his or her name???) and still found a student "annoying" and actually made an award for him. The cruelty is shocking. This is like pouring a bucket of blood on Carrie after making her Prom Queen - a hideous, evil joke.  I can only imagine the treatment the boy received during the school year - from the teacher and OTHERS. This kind of personality doesn't go unnoticed or unsupported by others. Bus drivers, aides, teachers, paras - turning violent and nasty on disabled children because they can not handle the job they took is unacceptable. QUIT. Go work at Target. Go work at the local dump. GET OUT OF THE SCHOOLS.

GARY, Ind. – An Indiana father says he was “blindsided” after a teacher gave his 11-year-old son, who has autism, an award for “most annoying male.”

“We just weren’t expecting it,” dad Rick Castejon told The Times of Northwest Indiana. “As a principal or teacher, you should never let this happen to any student.”

Castejon said a special education teacher at Bailly Preparatory Academy in Gary handed out the awards in May during an annual end-of-year ceremony and luncheon for fifth-graders. Read more at FOX 59.

I'm an upbeat woman, despite the serious challenges in my life and my daughters' lives.  But stories like this shake my faith. People are often surprised when I say, "We are happy!"My girls are safe and smiling in the life that I have been able to create and secure for them. And I am gloriously content and proud of myself for being able to make ends meet (stretched like Yoga masters!) and that I can take care of myself and my girls 100% on my own. Well, to be exact, around 331 days and nights a year.  I did not choose the autism life. But my girls have autism. I chose to be a single parent. And for those of you who are also single, divorced, widowed or widowered, you know that it's a never ending responsibility and it's tough. But we are tougher.  Sure, sometimes my girls frustrate me, worry me, exhaust me and dare I say "annoy" me - like EVERY child. Ours with autism do it with a particular skill, and for a very long time, (like forever for most of us.) I can't get fired. I can't fade from the girls' lives. I gave them life. And it's up to me to protect their lives. And when we send our kids to school, we expect the teachers to protect and keep our kids from harm as well. We do not expect them to publicly shame then, which lets all of us know that they treat our kids far worse when no one is is looking.

Join us at a new site called AutismAges.org - a forum based site to discuss the issues of autism and aging. If school is this tough on children, it's hard to think about what our not so cute full grown adult children will face as adults. We need to get busy now. Please join the site and start talking!

Note: American children are regressing into a primal state of dysfunctional mental health. They are not naughty. They are not unloved. They are not possessed by demons. Screen time alone isn't destroying their ability to have empathy and control. One could say that even our poorest children living in abject poverty have more luxuries that our grandparents could have imagined. Kids are pathologically unwell. But they don't have the chicken pox, so teachers can be grateful for that as they dodge chairs and fists. Meanwhile, teachers, aides and bus drivers are also cracking up and being violent toward students with special needs. Children are not supposed to need psychiatric care at age 7. Schools nurses are supposed to hand out band aids to boys with scraped knees and feminine pads to frightened 7th grade girls and put cold compresses on a feverish child whose mother has been called. Today's school nurses might as well work under MASH tents for the trauma the see each day. Social workers used to facilitate lunch bunch and counsel children whose parents were in the process of a divorce. We have a monstrous problem on our hands. 

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By Anne Dachel

Reporters endlessly tell us about INCREASES/CHANGES in the population of disabled children in our schools everywhere in the English speaking world. Despite the serious things they tell, these same reporters just move on to the next topic. There’s never an in-depth follow-up asking critical questions and searching for real answers.

One recent story immediately got my attention, and I felt I had to highlight it.

May 31, 2019, Des Moines, IA, CBS13: Extreme & Violent Student Behavior Pushing Iowa Teachers to Breaking Point 

Iowa teachers tell Channel 13 they are so overwhelmed by extreme violent behavior they have reached a breaking point.  They asked us to share their stories so people will understand what happens inside classrooms.

Ashlee May teaches second grade in Des Moines.  She said, “Most people, I don’t think, realize kind of what’s happening.  We get screamed at and cursed at daily.  I’ve been stabbed with a pencil before.”

Police reports back her up.  They contain stories of children ages 10 and younger throwing chairs, punching teachers in the face, and leaving bruises on instructors.  May considers herself lucky.  “In terms of what other teachers deal with, I think I’ve been kind of blessed because I’ve never had to go to the hospital.”

A teacher whose identity we concealed based on her fear of retaliation from administrators for speaking out told us children “get in the faces of the teachers.”  She said she hears things like, “Get out of my way, you (expletives).  You can’t do anything to me.  I’m not going to get into trouble.  You’re going to get into trouble.  All kinds of intimidation.”

May said, “There just comes a point where you’re just so worn out emotionally, and physically, and mentally that you just can’t do it anymore.”

We’re told, “Teachers have been sounding the alarm privately about extreme behavior for years.”

We hear about “room clears” where a child becomes so violent that other students are in danger and they have to be removed to the hallway. A single student is then left to trash the room.

So why have (elementary) students recently become so disruptive and out-of-control?

The 7 minute news video didn’t have much to say about it except that there are ‘gaps in our social fabric’ and insinuate that parents are at fault. 

“Teachers are tasked with types of nurturing that have never been asked of them, that they weren’t trained for, and state lawmakers haven’t budgeted for.”

Nurturing?

Children seemingly aren’t being nurtured outside of school.

In addition, there is a lack of mental health services that children need.

The interview with a district administer went like this:

“All the gaps in our social fabric that schools are more and more expected to take on, whether that’s private service providers or access to private service providers.”

“Or moms and dads.”

Study Underscores Need for More Research to Determine Whether Vaccines Are the Source

From The Weston A. Price Foundation.

Washington, DC—June 4, 2019—High concentrations of aluminum characterize the brains of autistic children, according to a 2018 study published in the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology.[1]

Researchers from Keele University in the U.K. examined brain tissue from deceased individuals with a diagnosis of autism, finding some of the highest values for aluminum in human brain tissue yet recorded. The research investigated brain tissue from ten donors, representing all donors available at the Autism Brain Bank, and a standout observation was the location of aluminum in primarily inflammatory, non-neuronal cells with evidence of these cells moving from blood and lymph into brain tissue.

Sources of ingested aluminum include infant formula, foods in aluminum packaging, and foods cooked in aluminum pans or foil. However, in general less than 1 percent of dietary aluminum is absorbed.[2] A highly probable source of aluminum in the brains of autistic children is vaccines. A fully vaccinated child receives almost 5,000 mcg aluminum by 18 months of age.[3] The amount of aluminum in the eight doses given at the two-month baby check-up is 1,225 mcg.3 By contrast, the maximum allowable aluminum per day for intravenous feeding in children is 25 mcg.

U.S. vaccines containing one or more types of aluminum include diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (ST, DTAP, Td, Tdap); influenza type b (Hib); hepatitis (A and B, A/B); the meningococcal and pneumococcal vaccines; and human papillomavirus (HPV). All of these vaccines are on the CDC vaccine schedule. Babies routinely receive the hepatitis B vaccination on the first day of life.

Aluminum compounds in vaccines include aluminum hydroxide, aluminum phosphate, “aluminum salts,” amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate (AAHS), and potassium aluminum sulfate.[4] Merck’s proprietary AAHS adjuvant (added to the Gardasil Hib and Hepatitis A and B vaccines) was not safety tested and is among the components blamed for the adverse reactions to the Gardasil[5] as well as hepatitis vaccines.

“Government assurances that vaccines don’t cause autism cannot hold up to this new discovery,” says Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation. “Parents are right to hesitate before injecting neuro-toxic aluminum into their children.”

California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat,  really put his neck out and bucked his party line when he expressed opposition to California's strangling vaccine laws.  See below.

Dan Olmsted was adamant that AofA is apolitical. And as a non-profit entity we have to be. But we are humans. And most of us (waving to John Stone) are American voters. I grew up in Massachusetts and am a New Englander. It has broken my heart to watch liberal states, blue states like my home,  ignore, belittle and crush those of us who want vaccination choice. My daughters need so many services.  As a generalization, the Democrats pay for social services more willingly than Republicans. But the Republican party has been more amenable to healthcare choice over the years. It's a real quandary for me every time I step into the voting booth. I hope that more politicians follow Governor Newsom's brave lead.  Maybe he just followed his heart? May others speak out for AMERICAN rights which know no party.

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

Gavin Newsom signals opposition to tightening California vaccination rules

From the Sacramento Bee

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Saturday he’s concerned about having government officials sign off on vaccine exemptions, arguing those decisions should be made between patients and doctors without government involvement.

“I’m a parent. I don’t want someone that the governor of California appointed to make a decision for my family,” he told reporters after his speech at the California Democratic Party Convention.

Although he didn’t mention the bill explicitly, his comments indicate he doesn’t support a bill by state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, that would require the California Department of Public Health to sign off on doctors’ medical exemption requests. If the Legislature passes the bill, it would need Newsom’s signature to become law.

The MMR vaccine has failed again, putting Florida college students at risk for complications including meningitis. Mumps in early childhood is uncomfortable. Mumps in the adult years carries far more risk.  When I was a kid, Fram automotive air filters had a slogan in their ads - "You can pay me now. Or you can pay me later."  The MMR vaccine has backfired.

From Johns Hopkins: Complications of mumps happen more often among adults than children, and may include:

• Meningitis or encephalitis. Inflammation of the membrane that covers the brain and spinal cord or inflammation of the brain.

• Orchitis. Inflammation of one or both testicles.

• Mastitis. Inflammation of breast tissue.

• Parotitis. Inflammation of one or both parotid glands.  (THIS IS THE NAVY SHIP SITUATION!)
  

• Oophoritis. Inflammation of one or both ovaries.

• Pancreatitis. Inflammation of the pancreas.

• Deafness

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (FOX 35 ORLANDO) - The Alachua County Health Department is warning of an unusual outbreak of the mumps. Department spokesperson Paul Myers said 12 cases of the illness have been reported to their office.

That number may seem small, but the department said the county’s baseline is between 0 and 2 cases; making this about a 500 percent increase. However, Myers stressed that the cases are easily traced in this outbreak.

"This is an outbreak between a very close knit group of individuals,” said Myers. “They probably shared utensils, they may have shared drinking vessels."
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The health department says that’s the primary means for transmission of the illness. Leaders at the University of Florida confirm they have between 10 and 12 cases of the mumps reported among the students at their Gainesville campus.

"We're currently in the process of reaching out to students to communicate to them through emails and social media to let them know about this,” said University Spokesman Steve Orlando.

Myers said the county does occasionally see outbreaks of the mumps, but this situation is more unusual because the patients are vaccinated.   Read more from Fox 35 Tallahassee Florida here.

Note: So, in this California Whoopsieing Daisy Cough outbreak, the small number of unvaccinated children do NOT have the w hooping cough. but 30 vaccinated students do. Ergo, the unvaccinated children are healthier. Meanwhile, the unvaccinated face expulsion based on their school year thanks to SB277.

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Officials at a Los Angeles high school said Tuesday that a lack of vaccinations does not explain an outbreak of whooping cough.

From John Gilmore of Autism Action Network

We are having a press conference on Monday, June 3rd at 10 am in the LCA Press Room in Room 130 in the Legislative Office Building in Albany featuring congregation leaders who are opposed to Senate Bill S2994 and Assembly bill A2371, bills that would repeal the religious exemption from vaccine mandates to attend school.

Speaking will be Rev. Tom Mahairas of the Manhattan Bible Church, Rev. Walter Sotelo of Citivision, Rabbi Henry Morse and Kevin Barry of First Freedoms, with more congregation leaders to be announced.

Among the many lies told by Sen. Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz, is that there are no religious reasons to object to any vaccine or vaccination in general.

Please come, and join us afterward in educating the legislators about the many religious conflicts posed by vaccinations. On Monday there will be only 16 days left in the legislative session so every day counts.

By Cathy Jameson          

They’re desperate.  They have to be.  Why else would we see even more American representatives working so hard to protect liability-free products?  In light of how many state legislators were successful in stripping parents’ rights during the 2019 legislative season, Products Over People! should be the new political motto. 

The latest attempt to safeguard pharmaceutical products comes from the federal level to the people with a cunning title: 

V.A.C.C.I.N.E.  The Vaccine Awareness Campaign to Champion Immunization Nationally and Enhance Safety (VACCINES) Act: The Vaccine Awareness Campaign to Champion Immunization Nationally and Enhance Safety (VACCINES) Act will give the Center for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) resources it needs to understand what drives vaccines hesitancy and barriers to immunization. They will also be able to better track where there are changes in vaccine confidence or refusal rates. With this information, they will be able to predict where an outbreak might occur because of low immunization rates and target vaccine education campaigns to those areas before an outbreak occurs.


When I first saw that, I couldn’t help but laugh.  The title.  The smiling lab-coated doctor.  The reference to the “settled science”.  The V.A.C.C.I.N.E. Act read just like a pharmaceutical ad!  I had to look twice to make sure it wasn’t a satirical piece like from The Onion.  It was absurdly laughable.  Rereading it, I realized that it was not fake. 

Schrier’s bill, which was filed in May as H.R. 2862, comes with all sorts of pharmaceutically-driven statements, which can also be found on the CDC and FDA websites including that vaccines are safe, effective and save lives.  The introduction of it, besides what one would read on pharmaceutical-funded documents, also comes with a complaint from one of the representatives in support of it:

As a medical professional for over 30 years, I find it absolutely ridiculous that we are seeing illnesses that should not be a public health concern now making a comeback.  I sense a great deal of frustration from this doctor, but as a mother of a vaccine-injured child, I find it absolutely ridiculous that a growing number in the medical community, and now in the political arena, are so quick to dismiss informed parents.  Informed parents look beyond Science.  They have to because it failed their child.  Doctors, and now doctors-turned-politicians, don’t want to listen to the parents.  They’ve turn their attention away from those parents and their valid concerns about the safety and efficacy of liability-free vaccines.  Simple questions, like asking why vaccines are being mandated when they contribute to outbreaks of the illness that the vaccine was supposed to prevent, aren’t allowed to be asked.  Doctors could choose to educate their paying customers, but they kick parents from their practices instead of address parents’ concerns professionally.

Note:  Excerpted from NVIC.
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This year, the fear mongering about measles has reached epidemic proportions in America. A day doesn’t go by without media outlets publishing angry articles and editorials spewing hatred toward a tiny minority of parents with unvaccinated children, who are being blamed for measles outbreaks. 1 2 3 The remedy is always a call to track down, persecute and punish any parent whose child is not vaccinated. 4 5 6

Some state and federal lawmakers are reacting to the relentless fear mongering by proposing to severely restrict the medical vaccine exemption and eliminate all religious and conscientious belief exemptions in state vaccine laws. 7 8 9 10 These exemptions, which help prevent vaccine injuries and deaths, also protect parental rights, civil liberties and the ethical principle of informed consent to medical risk taking. 11
Government, WHO, Medical Trade, Pharma, Media Say MMR Vaccine Is Safe & Effective
measles outbreak

The U.S. government, the World Health Organization, medical trade associations, the pharmaceutical industry and multi-national communications corporations all agree that the measles virus is extremely dangerous, the MMR vaccine is very safe and effective, and all children must get two doses of MMR vaccine to meet the goal of eradicating measles from the world by 2020. 12 13 14 15

While most of the public conversation in the past two decades has been focused on children, who have suffered convulsions, encephalitis and encephalopathy after MMR vaccine reactions and become chronically ill and disabled, 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 there hasn’t been much discussion about measles vaccine effectiveness or what measles was like before and after the vaccine was licensed in the mid-20th century.

This is a special report on measles vaccine failures based on evidence published in the scientific and medical literature that is not being discussed in public conversations about measles vaccine policies and mandatory vaccination laws. READ MORE HERE.

Important news from New Hampshire. The MMR vaccine itself is helping to fuel the panic that mandates the MMR vaccine. From NECN News:

New Hampshire Child Didn't Have Measles, But Vaccine Reaction

Additional lab work indicated the child's symptoms were likely due to a vaccine reaction from the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine — also known as MMR.

New Hampshire public health officials say additional testing suggests a child initially diagnosed with measles actually had a rare reaction to a vaccine that resembled a real measles virus infection.

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services said in a news release the child was diagnosed with measles and may have exposed others to infection at three locations in Keene.

But on Thursday, the department said the public is not currently at risk for measles from the child. It said there is no contagious measles known to be circulating in the community.

Additional lab work indicated the child's symptoms were likely due to a vaccine reaction from the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine — also known as MMR. The child had been vaccinated several days before starting to show symptoms.

By Anne Dachel

While California politicians focus on removing vaccination rights from healthy citizens, its schools face unheard of budget pressures from ever mountain special education costs.

On May 12 the Los Angeles Times  reported that local school districts were “hitting the panic button” over costs despite a huge 21% increase in the state’s special education budget.

Reporter John Myers pointed to “the rapid growth in expenses for special education.” He wrote, “More children are qualifying for additional services, particularly those diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.”

MORE CHILDREN ARE QUALIFYING

Many of these kids have really severe and costly needs. ‘When you look at the dollars that reach the actual schools, the increase in overall funding is being outstripped by the increase in mandated costs.’

Back in March, the Marin County Independent Journal  had a similar story. It seems that while enrollment in the district is going down, special education costs are rising. This makes for a big money problem and they have to make budget cuts of $1.8M.

“ ‘This $1.8 million is just the beginning,’” said trustee Ross Millerick, referring to continuing challenges from rising pension costs, declining enrollment and flat per-student revenue from the state.” …

“Hawkins said another significant factor this year was a steep rise in special education costs. … ‘The costs for special education are up over $750,000 this year,’ Hawkins told the board on Tuesday. ‘This is the largest increase in over 20 years.’”…

No one seems willing to ask the obvious in these stories: Why are special education costs and numbers increasingly a problem, especially if enrollment is down?

by John Stone

Seth Berkley, the director Gavi, who led the call for a clamp down on vaccine criticism in social media two years ago in the British mainstream journal the Spectator had a few months before been named in the Mail on Sunday as the worst charity fat cat. Ian Birrell had written  an article entitled 'The fattest charity fat cat of them all: Foreign aid boss made Millions out £1.5  billion handed to his charity by British taxpayers' (actually nearly £2.5 million, heading for $4million). He reports:

"Seth Berkley has taken home more than £2 million over the past four years as chief executive officer of Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi), which has been given £1.5 billion by Britain...Another official at the Geneva-based group collects a pay package of more than £500,000 a year...Incredibly, Dr Berkley was given a housing allowance on top of his £623,370 pay package... Like others at Gavi, he is also offered help with school fees and is exempt from paying Swiss income taxes under a deal struck by the organisation."

In November 2017 I wrote in evidence to the UK House of Commons media committee (DCMS) inquiry into Fake News: 

"In this regard it is disquieting to look at the global campaign by vaccine lobbyists which reached these shores this summer advocating compulsory vaccination, having scored recent successes in Australia, Italy, France and parts of the United States. The British Medical Association jettisoned its traditional opposition to compulsory vaccination... – dismissed only a few years ago by a former chairman, Hamish Meldrum, as “Stalinist” ... -   and called for the matter to be discussed. Just a few days before an article appeared in the on-line Spectator by the CEO of GAVI, a global agency promoting vaccination, calling for “anti-vaxxers” to be excluded from “social media”... It must be emphasised that anyone remotely critical or informed about the vaccine lobby and its products, is placed under the general pejorative label “anti-vaxxer”: it is the vaccine/pharmaceutical lobby that polarises the debate – anyone who is not in favour of their entire open-ended agenda is subject to opprobrium and ad hominem attack. Complex health issues are being reduced in the mainstream arena to “Four legs good, two legs bad” type arguments."

Gavi's partners include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF, the WHO, the World Bank and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (notably Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co., Novartis, Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi-Aventis and Pfizer), a network which surely leads back to the Global Health Security Agenda launched in the White House by Barack Obama in September 2014 in the wake of the William Thompson affair.

We have to ask whether it was ever the welfare of humanity which was at stake, or just the welfare of a certain class?

John Stone is UK Editor for Age of Autism.

Note: Ted Kuntz is a valued contributor to Age of Autism. Below, we share his letter to CBC, (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.)  The response, is a polite refusal to budge. Please visit the Vaccine Choice Canada site for information from our friends to the North.

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Ted Kuntz writes to CBC – their response and Ted’s reply are below:

To the Attention of:

Mr. Jack Nagler, CBC Ombudsperson ombud@cbc.ca

Dear Mr. Nagler

I’m writing to you because I’m very concerned about what the CBC has become to many Canadians.

I am the parent of a vaccine injured child, now deceased. I have spent more than three decades investigating the science which is purported to be the foundation for our current vaccine program and government policies pertaining to childhood vaccination. I’ve learned that the reality is much more complex and different than we have been led to believe.

In my efforts to bring awareness to this critically important topic, what I have experienced is that vaccine safety is one topic that is not permitted to be discussed at the CBC. When the topic is vaccine safety, informed consent, or vaccine injury the CBC is no longer willing to host dialogue and honestly debate ideas. Amongst my fellow parents, the CBC has lost its value and its purpose and has become obsolete. This is most unfortunate for the media that purports to be “Canada’s broadcaster”.

Can the CBC be a force to help heal the divide?

On March 29, 2019 I reached out to Charlie Cho, the Associate Producer of ‘The Early Edition’. My goal was to invite Charlie and the rest of the CBC to help me create a safe space where ideas could be shared, information exchanged, fences dis-mantled, and relationships mended. This is what I wrote Charlie:

“Good Morning Charlie

First of all, I want you to know that we are wanting the same thing.
I trust that  both of us are here to be of service.
I trust that both of us are interested in healthy children. You, and others, are fighting so children don’t die of infectious diseases.
Thank you for your efforts with this.
I’m fighting so children don’t die from vaccines.
Both are real.
I’m simply asking the question – Is what we are doing working?
This is an important question to ask over and over. We should never stop asking this question.

The medical industry is advocating for policies that mean:

• The loss of informed consent
• The loss of parental rights
• The loss of therapeutic choice
• The loss of the freedom to discuss this issue

I’m advocating for:

• The right to informed consent
• Parental rights to medical decisions

Talk about your Bronx cheer.

Thank you to John Gilmore of Autism Action Network for this report.  The level of derision for families who want to keep their right to vaccine exemptions has never been worse. Politicians have no problem expressing violence, anger and complete dismissal of a huge bloc of voters. This is appalling.

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Behold  New York Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz, author of Assembly Bill  A2371a, a bill to eliminate the right to a religious exemption from vaccine mandates to attend school, a right New Yorkers have ALWAYS had. Here, he displays the depth of his intellect to members of the public who were excluded from a press conference on the bill this morning at 250 Broadway in Manhattan.  He was in the lobby of the building, and constituents who were expressing their America right to protest this bill took video and this photo from outside the building - only "credentialed" press were allowed inside.

There was a joint committee meeting of the Senate and Assembly Health Committees going on in Albany during this press conference. Seems like both Assemblyman Brad Hoylman and Dinowitz blew off the hearing on New York's proposed Single Payer Health Plan to get some press in NYC.  And we are more than happy to oblige him by sharing this disgusting photo of this most UNcivil servant.

Please share to your New York Assemblymembers and State Senator's Facebook pages.

Note: This story below Junk' DNA can cause autism, groundbreaking study finds was published just yesterday. Feel free to read it, and share your thoughts. "With no family history of autism, the genetic cause of these individuals' conditions was probably spontaneous, not inherited, mutations, researchers said."

I have 3 children with autism, I had to look up the word, SPONTANEOUS.  It means "spur of the moment," something that doesn't happen in my home unless it's cleaning up a crapisode (kidding, we no longer have those, so take heart younger parents.)  Spontaneous out of the blue oh my golly gee what could have done this genetic mutations may have caused this RAGING epidemic.Groundheartbreaking. 

Junk DNA appears to be scientifically controversial - which may mean that it's existence serves a purpose for industry, profit, etc.  From Futurity.org.  Researchers have determined how satellite DNA, considered to be “junk DNA,” plays a crucial role in holding the genome together. Their findings, published recently in the journal eLife, indicate that this genetic “junk” performs the vital function of ensuring that chromosomes bundle correctly inside the cell’s nucleus, which is necessary for cell survival. And this function appears to be conserved across many species.  Read more here. "Futurity features the latest discoveries by scientists at top research universities in the US, UK, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The nonprofit site, which launched in 2009, is supported solely by its university partners (listed below) in an effort to share research news directly with the public."

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Junk' DNA can cause autism, groundbreaking study finds

Disorder doesn't appear to be caused by specific genes, but by "regulatory DNA'

Mutations in so-called "junk DNA" can cause autism, according to a groundbreaking study published Monday.

The study, which used artificial intelligence technology, is the first to link such mutations to the developmental disorder. Researchers have been looking for specific, autism-causing genes since 2003, when the human gene was first mapped.

The research, led by Olga Troyanskay, deputy director for genomics at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Biology (CCB) in New York City and a professor of computer science at Princeton University, in collaboration with Robert Darnell, the Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor of Cancer Biology at Rockefeller University and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, was published Monday in Nature Genetics.

Researchers used machine learning to conduct analysis on whole genomes of 1,790 individuals with autism, as well as their unaffected parents and siblings, according to a news release from the Simons Foundation, via Eureka. The Flatiron Institute is the research division of the Simons Foundation.

With no family history of autism, the genetic cause of these individuals' conditions was probably spontaneous, not inherited, mutations, researchers said.

According to the foundation:  Read more here.

By Anne Dachel

I often say that regular ed today is really special ed with all the kids who have individual plans and different learning needs.

In the same sense, special ed should actually be called behavioral ed because of what things are like in the modern school setting.

From therapy dogs, to the use of restraint/seclusion and increased mental health services, academics is no longer the sole focus of schools. Education has to change because kids today cannot function normally. It's that simple.

Here are some examples from recent news reports. Taken as a whole they should be scaring everyone. How much time do we have left to fix things?

The content quoted below can be found among the recent stories on LossOfBrainTrust.com

Delaware, OH: Two full-time and two part-time therapists are assigned to Delaware City Schools, she said….

The district also partners with other [mental health] agencies as part of its overall effort to maintain student wellness, she said.

Florida: Florida has an estimated 400,000 children who need behavioral-health services, but 55 percent of them don’t get any treatment, members of a health-care panel were told Thursday.

That translates to 220,000 children across the state, or about one child in every classroom…

Lawmakers this month approved a 2019-2020 state budget that includes $75 million for mental-health services at schools, a boost from the $64 million given to school districts for the current year.

Dublin, Ireland: She is one of a number of Dublin parents who will take part in a protest on Saturday in the city centre, about the lack of school places for their autistic children.

Fairfax County, VA: But last March, a WAMU investigation revealed hundreds of cases in which elementary students in schools designed to serve students with special needs were secluded and restrained. In some cases, children were as young as six. One child was isolated more than 100 times in a school year. …

Thank you.

By Cathy Jameson

Just when I think we can breathe a little sigh of relief, attacks against our community make headlines again.  I expect it more nowadays, but it’s pitiful how much corporate media despises parents in our community.  Who are we?  We’re those who thought to question liability-free vaccines.  We’re also people who stand up against forced liability-free vaccines. 

Image source: Screenshots of headlines

Part of me is in disbelief that our efforts have achieved national spotlight.  But the other part of me thinks, well, it’s about time!  With all of the media’s energy and effort on drumming up vaccine sales and supporting vaccine policy, it’s hard to escape the topic.  Once a private matter, all sorts of platforms have taken on the subject.  Vaccine consumers would normally benefit from having platforms to talk about how their government supports pharmaceutical products that can fail.  But not anymore.  When former pro-vaccine parents in our community speak up, it’s become bad for business.  Unless you’re all for vaccines, even the ones that cause the illness officials claim they will prevent,  it’s not wise to speak up.  Social media giants  are making sure to shut us down, too.  

That’s too bad because it was another parent who took time to take me aside to talk to me about vaccines and the adverse events that can follow vaccination, not any of the medical professionals my son was seeing.  Those professionals wanted me to keep on vaccinating, even though the illnesses and medical problems he was having presented post-vaccination.  When I tried to point that out, I got a sympathetic look and one of these pat responses:  Vaccines are best.  They’re for his health.  We believe they’re for the greater good.  And hey, he needs them to get into school, too.  I got nowhere with medical people.  Other parents, who were never judgmental and who were always willing to share their time even though they, too, had a child with special needs, were quick and happy to help me.   It’s through their knowledge and guidance that made me realize I how little I knew about vaccines, including that they could cause serious issues.   

Sadly, some parents are still very late to the party and are only now being made aware of table injuries,  of Vaccine Court, and of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP).  But ironically, thanks to the media perseverating on vaccines, those aspects of vaccines are finally part of the conversation.  Parents who’ve reached out to me privately recently are none-to-pleased that they have never been made by aware by any medical person that injuries are possible.  Never have they been informed that the NVICP exists either.  Imagine their shock when they realize that our government has paid out over $4 billion to families for vaccine injury and death.  These parents might not get the whole picture from their doctors, but with the media’s incessant vaccine postings, at least new parents are beginning to learn what several of us did not learn in time – that not every vaccine is safe, and not every vaccine provides benefits. 

Thank you to The F'ed Up Democrat blog for this excerpt.

May 17, 2019 — NY State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky voted YES to allowing children as young as nine years old consent to being vaccinated with the dangerous Gardasil vaccine without parental consent or knowledge. This is a horrible, horrifying bill that must be stopped as it destroys parental rights and may very well be responsible for injuring or killing children. In the past 13 years we know for a fact a minimum of 480 people have died after receiving the Gardasil shot. That data comes directly from the CDC’s website.

Yet Stavisky believes 9 year old children can make that decision without a parent.

The below comes from a friend and Warrior Mom who I respect greatly in Queens. She won’t stop fighting for the religious and health freedom rights of her and her family. Stavisky wouldn’t even make eye contact with her when she came into her office or say hello to her Autistic son. This is dedicated to all the Warrior Moms fighting the good fight for their families and their children. If you have a similar story to tell, send it to me here at this blog. We cannot let good constituents be treated this way without a light being shined on such reprehensible behavior.

Here are the details of the Stavisky visit. Stavisky is not the only one who deserves to be exposed in this negative light; she is just the first to be.

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It took many attempts, but a planned meeting with NYS Senator Toby Ann Stavisky was finally set for May 10, 2019. The organizers spent a long time and made great efforts to secure this face-to-face.

The time offered for that day was then rescheduled – to when most parents are picking up children at schools dismissing: 2:30pm, for *fifteen* minutes. Senator Stavisky represents District 16 in Flushing, Queens. My mother has been a constituent there for almost her entire life. I wanted to attend the meeting with her and the others, however work obligations kept me from going. I knew that I was not going to make it in time, but I was hoping that maybe it would run long as I raced out of my job just before it began.

My mom picked up my son early from his special-needs school. Together they went to the office in downtown Flushing to represent our family. Senator Stavisky is on the NYS Senate Health Committee. Along with nine other Democrats and five Republicans, that panel of fifteen cast votes about legislation in the early stages. Some bills die in committee, while others move on.

On Tuesday May 7, Senator Stavisky voted that she believes that minors – as young as the age of nine – should be able to consent to risky medical procedures without consent of their parent(s). I strongly disagree with that.  Read more at The FedUpDemocrat blog.

Note: Perhaps you missed this bit of swamp draining on the evening news earlier this month. Despite President Trump's lack of progress regarding vaccination safety or choice, he has made some inroads when it comes to Big Pharma. Drugs over $35 per month will have to share their costs in direct to consumer ads. "Ask your Doctor if this drug costs more than your monthly mortgage...."  Transparency is part of informed consent. Wouldn't it be nice if we had some in the vaccination arena - or should I say the Coliseum, where our rights are the Christians and Pharma and Public health are the lions.  Keep the faith, friends.

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Excerpted from Cortical Chauvinism a site discussing autism issues, by Dr. Manuel Casanova. We invite you to bookmark the site:

From Medical News (Physicians First Watch) published May 10, 2019

by Ginger Taylor, MS

Today Governor Janet Mills, after promising Mainers that she would protect their exemptions, signed LD 798, "An Act To Protect Maine Children and Students from Preventable Diseases by Repealing Certain Exemptions from the Laws Governing Immunization Requirements."

The new law removes religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions from everywhere in Maine law. Children will lose the right to attend daycare, preschool, and k-12, if they do not comply with Maine's vaccine mandates. The measure applies to both public and private school, and will apply even to children with IEPs or 504s.

In addition, adults will no longer be allowed to attend colleges, universities or trade schools, and health care practitioners will loose their jobs, if they do not vaccinate according to Maine law.

Legislators have noted that in their tenure in the Maine Legislature they have never encountered a stronger public outcry against a bill, and opponents inside and outside the lawmaking body have vowed to continue to fight against forced vaccinations in Maine.

The crowd of Mainers gathered at the Maine State House for the final vote chanted, "WE WILL NOT CONSENT!"

The new measure will not go into effect until September of 2021, giving Mainers two years to challenge the law, and even elect a new legislature to repeal the LD 798.

Gov. Mills signs bill eliminating religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions

WAKE UP ARKANSAS! The end is near.

In the midst of a flurry of coverage in the media about the threat posed by measles outbreaks in the U.S., I found a truly frightening story from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

State autism-treatment options scarce, but growing was all about how the state government fails children with autism. It seems that in Arkansas, autism is a real problem.

The Democrat Gazette gives readers real things to worry about. It’s the inevitable position every state in the U.S. will be in the next few years.

To summarize: the epidemic of autism shows no signs of slowing down, and there simply aren’t enough services to address it.

Reporter Alex Golden uses the example of a 2 year-old who stopped talking and was diagnosed with autism. Incredibly, Golden says nothing about why a child would regress. It’s just autism.

From there he goes on to talk about THE PRICE TAG OF AUTISM.

Autism costs an average of about $60,000 a year through childhood, with the bulk of the costs in special services and lost wages related to increased demands on one or both parents. Costs increase with the occurrence of intellectual disability.

And it isn’t just the cost of care, what’s worse is the absence of help for these children.

It's also a struggle in Northwest Arkansas to get treatment for children who are on the autism spectrum, a problem that parents and professionals attribute to a lack of services and professionals in the field. …

Golden cites one service provider who just can’t keep up with demand.

From Corvelva, in Italy. Please note, this is a translation from the Italian.

Read the full analysis here.

In analyzing the Gardasil 9 papillomavirus vaccine, from a metagenomic and chemical point of view, we found many non-conformities that, to our opinion, they should require the authorities to re-analyze at least the lots analyzed by us, the immediate withdrawal if our data are confirmed and a wider re-evaluation of the analysis to be performed on all the vaccines on the market.

From what we could see the problems were, under the metagenomic profile, the presence of adventitious genetic material presents such as bacteria, human and mouse DNA, adventitious viruses like phages and retroviruses and yeasts.
What most impressed us was the presence of L1 fragments of the genome of papillomavirus. These fragments should not be present in the vaccine because the papillomavirus is carcinogenic and their presence together with the aluminum adjuvant is believed to be the cause of some of the serious adverse reactions in the injured.

The same chemical analysis, even if shocking due to the number of potential non-residual contaminants found, had left a huge question mark. The analysis with the technology used in the laboratories we identified, gave us 338 signals of which only 22% are known. What has seemed to many unbelievable, that is the list of the probably identified compounds, in reality, to us, it created enormous interest the remaining 78% not known.

A study of this unknown 78% started a further study and, after repeated analysis carried out in two different laboratories and with two different instruments, we can now tell you that a signal we found, compared to three databases consulted, leads us to determine that in some lots of Gardasil 9, especially in lot R009338, there is a contamination corresponding to an amazing drug called APDB.  Read more here.

Americans, New Englanders in particular, do NOT like having the government tell them what they CAN and CAN NOT do. Liberty is the reason the United States of America exists. Religious freedom is at the core of our liberty. Vaccination has become an Orthodox religion in this country. Measles is the sin. The VaxEducated (formerly known as anti-vaxxers) are the sinners.  Pharma is God. Public health officials and Politicians are the Cardinals. Pediatricians are the Parish priests. Nurses are the Nuns. And our kids are the altar boys and girls..... serving on the altar of Merck... with their pants around their ankles.

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AUGUSTA, Maine —

The Maine Senate is expected to take a final vote Thursday on a bill that would end most nonmedical exemptions for childhood vaccines.

Hundreds of people opposed to the bill were protesting Thursday morning at the State House.  Read more here.

The bill would end the state's religious and philosophical exemptions to vaccines.

The House voted 79-62 Tuesday to enact the legislation. If approved Thursday by the Senate, the bill will go to Gov. Janet Mills.

Note: Time to bring back Jocko Homo and DEVO - which stood for de-evolution. Happening right under our injection sites.... Are we not men?

By Anne Dachel

Thanks to a friend who passed this on to me, we have some really scary info that raises lots of questions. For a long time I've said, "We'll vaccinate ourselves right back to the Stone Age."

May 22, 2019, NBC News: IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries and that doesn't bode well for humanity

An intelligence crisis could undermine our problem-solving capacities and dim the prospects of the global economy.

People are getting dumber. That's not a judgment; it's a global fact. In a host of leading nations, IQ scores have started to decline. ...

As yet, the United States hasn’t hit this IQ wall — despite what you may be tempted to surmise from the current state of the political debate. But don’t rush to celebrate American exceptionalism: If IQs are dropping in other advanced countries but not here, maybe that means we’re not really an advanced country (too much poverty, too little social support).

Or — just as troubling — if we are keeping up with the Joneses (or Johanssons and Jacques) in terms of national development, that means we are likely to experience similarly plummeting IQs in the near future. At which point, the U.S. will face the same dangers of intellectual and economic stagnation. ...

These days, however, Flynn himself concedes that "the IQ gains of the 20th century have faltered." A range of studies using a variety of well-established IQ tests and metrics have found declining scores across Scandinavia, Britain, Germany, France and Australia.

But the broad pattern has become clearer: Beginning around the turn of the 21st century, many of the most economically advanced nations began experiencing some kind of decline in IQ.

California's SB276 has moved forward through the Senate. (See excerpt below.)

Doctors are a needle’s width away from losing the right to make recommendations for their patients vis a vis medical vaccine exemptions in the state of California. From the bill ...require the State Department of Public Health, by July 1, 2020, to develop and make available for use by licensed physicians and surgeons a statewide standardized medical exemption request form, which, commencing January 1, 2021, would be the only medical exemption documentation that a governing authority may accept. The bill would require the State Public Health Officer or the public health officer’s designee to approve or deny a medical exemption request...

Dr. Richard Pan, pediatrician turned Merck's salesman of the year, pushed the plunger deep on this law.  No matter your stance on what is full or partial vaccination, what is "anti-vaccine," or not - medical decisions should never be taken away from a personal physician and given to a state bureaucrat. This is similar to what has happened in American healthcare - where someone at a desk at an insurance company can make life and death pre-approval decisions against your doctor's best advice and recommendation. This is the state taking over your body.  Meanwhile, the country is up in arms over the state taking control over women's bodies in the abortion debate. Democrat and Republican. Both sides claiming the moral high ground.

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SB276 Read the full text here:

Note: For Dr. Moskowitz's original, formatted document, please Download Some Thoughts on Vaccination.

By Dr. Richard Moskowitz

In Vaccines: a Reappraisal, my intention was to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject, including some politics and history as well.  Now I want to focus more narrowly on those parts of the book that address the science of the vaccination process in general.  Many years of practicing medicine and studying the scientific literature have convinced me that all vaccines pose a serious threat of chronic disease and death, and that these most dreadful outcomes are neither rare aberrations nor unrelated coincidences, but direct consequences of the physiological mechanisms by which vaccines achieve their intended and seemingly laudable goals.  In what follows, I will briefly mention what is and isn't known about those mechanisms, what clinical observations have led me to this hypothesis regarding them, what scientific evidence appears to support it, and what kind of research will be needed to validate or refute it.  

Immunity, True and False.

            In the early years of my practice, a deep misgiving led me to stop vaccinating before I could say why.  Reviewing basic immunology reminded me that acute febrile illnesses like the measles are essentially the concerted effort of the immune system to expel the offending virus or bacterium from the blood, requiring an elaborate array of defense mechanisms, namely,

1) inflammatory sensitization of the epithelium lining the nasal, oral, and pharyngeal cavities through which it entered,
as preparation for expelling it, by sneezing and coughing;

2) activating and signaling macrophages and monocytes, wandering phago-cytic cells that detect, engulf, and digest
invading viruses (or neutrophilseosinophils, and basophils, in the case of bacteria, allergens, and toxins, respectively);

3) activating the complement system, serum proteins that attach to and fragment them;

4) releasing interferons, interleukins, and other inflammatory cytokines, peptides that direct the phagocytes to where
they are needed;

5) synthesis of specific antibodies by lymphocytes and plasma cells in the thymus and bone marrow, which clump the viruses together, render them insoluble, and initiate phagocytosis; and

6) encryption of a permanent "memory" of the infection within the genetic material of these cells, to help them recognize and respond to viruses even more promptly and efficiently in the future.¹

            In sum, it seems reasonable to conclude that natural immunity requires the removal of foreign viruses and bacteria from the blood, a collaborative project of the immune system as a whole, and cannot be achieved by any of these mechanisms acting independently of the others.

            For most healthy people, the immunity that results is absolute, lifelong, and profoundly health-giving, in two important senses. It is specific, in that virtually everyone who recovers from the measles will never again be susceptible to it, even if large-scale epidemics are active in their neighborhood.²   But it also involves a nonspecific priming of the cellular immune mechanism to respond acutely, vigorously, and in concert, to whatever other infections it may encounter in the future.³

            Since vaccination is intended to substitute for this splendid outpouring and indeed render it unnecessary, it's easy to forget that coming down with and recovering from such illnesses represent a huge net gain for the general health of individuals, their descendants, and ultimately of their communities, their country, and of human life on the planet, indeed that they are the formative experiences by which natural immunity, a fundamental prerequisite of good health, is achieved and maintained throughout life.

By Ginger Taylor

Religious vaccine exemptions?  She was for them before she was against them.  

6/22/18

Let's be serious.  Maine Governor Janet T. Mills' sister Dora Ann is a pediatrician with a Masters degree in public health who has been the primary vaccine promoter in Maine for more than a decade.  Mills never had any intention of preserving the rights of Mainers to choose what vaccines they can get.

Watch this story by NBC 6 that shows her lie to Mainers.

Interviewing silence: In conversation with the Autism Community
Participations Journal of Audience and Reception Studies
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Jonathan Rose,
Drew University, New Jersey, USA

Abstract:

Collecting an oral history of autism presents extraordinary challenges. A third of all autistic individuals are nonspeaking, many others are seriously speech impaired, and their parents are often so overwhelmed by the burdens of caring for disabled children that they have little time to reflect about their experiences. Moreover, the mainstream media likes ‘happy news’ about autism (e.g., fundraisers, job training programs) and prefers not to dwell on the dark side (neurological damage, unemployment, violent outbursts, suicide). Here I explain the methodology behind my article ‘The Autism Literary Underground’, published in the journal Reception. I conducted interviews by email, in part because scheduled audio-recorded interviews are likely to be interrupted by the daily crises that autism families face, such as meltdowns and elopements. I specifically interviewed a small cohort of autism parents about their reading and how it shaped their attitudes toward the disorder, and I compared their responses with the results of larger scale studies. What emerged was a self-portrait of the autism community that is very different from what the mass media presents.

Keywords: Email interviews; autism; reading; controversy

The blind and the deaf have always been with us, and over the centuries we have learned how to communicate with them. But autism is a relatively new (and increasingly common) disability, and we don’t yet understand it or know how to deal with it. The symptoms vary enormously from individual to individual. Severity can range from barely noticeable to totally debilitating. The condition often impairs the ability to read but can also result in ‘hyperlexia’, a syndrome which involves precocious reading at a very early age but also difficulties in reading comprehension.