Showing posts with label CDC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CDC. Show all posts

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Flu Shots for Everyone!

Article from the Denver Post: Flu Vaccine Plentiful This Fall

Read the article and come back. It's ok, I'll wait on you.


You're back? Great! The Center for Disease Control recommends flu shots for 86% of the population. They are even recommending children 8 and younger get TWO shots!

But Ed, aren't they just wanting to protect everyone from the Flu?

Last season, flu killed 86 children.


The flu shot is not free, it costs anywhere from 12 to 25 dollars depending on where you get it. I don't know what the profit is per shot, but let's use an arbitrary number like $5. If all 145,000,000 doses are sold, it would mean a profit of 725,000,000, which is a very conservative estimate.

Any time a child dies it is a tragedy, but lets put this in perspective. 9.2 million children died in 2007 world wide due to various causes. One in one hundred and fifty children in the U.S. have autism.

Thimerosal, the Mercury based preservative that is widely believed by some to be the culprit behind the autism epidemic is still in most flu shots. Thimerosal was (suposedly) removed from all vaccines in 2003. It is still in the vaccines, but only in trace amounts. The flu vaccine was the exception. I don't know why they didn't remove it from the flu vaccine, but my guess would be that it comes down to money.

So what is the best way to get people to do what you want? To scare the shit out of them of course!



From the Denver Post article

Over the past decade, flu seasons have been sporadically marred by shortages or excesses of vaccine and, in the case of last year, relatively poor protection against the strains of influenza causing illness.

None of those problems is anticipated this year, said Julie Gerberding, the CDC's director.

"I have a smile on my face this year because we are looking at a wonderful supply of flu vaccine," she said.


Thanks Julie. But didn't you recently admit Thimerosal can cause autism?



(Note, I didn't make this video, but the information in it is good.)

So if she knows Thimerosal can trigger autism, why is she smiling about the abundance of flu shots? This behaviour is morally reprehensible and possibly criminal.

For those who think after reading this still think they need a flu shot, be aware you can ask for a non-Thimerosal shot. If the nurse doesn't know what that means, ask to see the insert box.

Friday, July 18, 2008

Mercury and Autism

Ok, there is something I need to write about and get out of my system. The preservative called Thimerosal, once commonly used in childhood vaccines and still used in flu shots is directly related to the Autism epidemic.
When most of us over the age of 30 were vaccinated, three shots were all that was required. Now I think it is something like 36 shots. This loaded up the Mercury in the kids system, 125 times what was suggested by the EPA.

http://www.909shot.com/Issues/HgCalculator.htm


A panicked CDC held a conference in Simpsonwood Georgia, and invited representatives from the pharmaceutical companies. IN their original findings, there was a statistically significant link between thimerosal and developmental disorders. The final study wasn't released until three years later, after the link had been watered down and the studies author was working in another country for a vaccine manufacturer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Simpsonwood_CDC_conference


Since that time, every government sponsored study has been slanted to show there is no link. Oh, and by the way, every government sponsored study has been epidemiological, meaning it uses statistics. They can't do a scientific study showing Thimerosal to be safe, because they can't fake it and hold any credibility.

They say it has been removed, but it hasn't. It is still there in "trace" amounts, although they don't define what a trace amount is. I remember at the time they said it had been removed from vaccines in 2001. True, but they did not recall the vaccines still on the shelves, most of which did not expire until 2003.

Recently, the head of the CDC had to admit to the link, but she did it in a soft and melancholy voice, and the admission has garnered no mainstream media attention. See for yourself.



If anyone thinks this is just a bunch of crap dreamed up in order to profit from a lawsuit, think again. The federal vaccine court has a limit of 3 years from the time the vaccine is given in order to file a lawsuit, thus giving big pharma long term liability protection.

Ok, those are the facts, now its time for a little rant. Why in the hell was pharma reps invited to a conference and the public was not? Isn't government supposed to serve the public? And why is there a vaccine court? Why do they get more protection than any other type of company? How the hell can the CDC publish a study and not say the author worked for a pharma company?

Ok, rant over. I had to stop thinking about this stuff for a long time, because my anger wasn't helping anyone. But I do believe in Kepler's law, that every action causes an equal and opposite reaction. I believe that god is just and things will eventually be put right.