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Could we stop the anti-vaxxers if we said measles contains gluten?
The Globe and Mail ^ | February 6, 2015 | TABATHA SOUTHEY

Posted on 02/09/2015 11:34:33 AM PST by rickmichaels

At the time the British government announced the Longitude Prize, shipwrecks were a grave problem – many people died, ships and cargo were lost. It was decided that a reward in the form of what would be millions in today’s dollars should be given to the person who devised a method by which a ship’s longitude could reliably be determined – making accurate navigation possible.

Ultimately, the prize was successful. Many lives were saved. Faced as we are now with alarming outbreaks of measles and whooping cough, we need a similar competition.

Who, 50 years ago, would ever have imagined we’d need to promise a reward to the person able to persuade wealthy, educated parents to do this small thing for their own children – of whom they seem quite fond – and for those who come into contact with those children, about whom one hopes they’d give a damn.

Yet here we are. There are schools in the wealthiest parts of Los Angeles where the vaccination rate is on a par with that of South Sudan – fashionable tinder boxes of measles waiting to go up. Pertussis (the far-less-fun-than-it-sounds “whooping cough”) is making a dramatic comeback.

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To: IYAS9YAS; AppyPappy

Note, it says “Some inactivated flu vaccine contains a very small amount of a mercury-based preservative called thimerosol.”


21 posted on 02/09/2015 12:12:16 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: AppyPappy
I read the part where it said it was harmless. Is that what you meant?

Nope, I get the shot, my kids get the shot or nasal mist. I was just pointing out that the sheet says mercury-based thimerosol. It's actually on the "label" for my shots.

22 posted on 02/09/2015 12:14:00 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: Justa

My understanding is that there are people with immune system disorders for whom vaccines are either less effective or are ineffective.

That means that if they come in contact with a carrier, they aren’t really immune PLUS if they catch the disease it poses a significantly higher health risk. The only way to protect them is to protect all the kids around them.

That being said, I don’t believe in forcing parents to vaccinate their kids. I DO support denying those kids access to many public facilities (including schools), as well as giving private citizens and organizations complete latitude to demand proof of vaccination and to deny service or entry to those who either refuse to provide it or don’t meet predetermined standards.


23 posted on 02/09/2015 12:17:20 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: Justa
Didn’t their families get the vaccines and are therefore immune?

Bingo.

I don't smoke. Go ahead.

I don't eat refined sugar or grains. Go ahead.

I really hate these big government types who think they know what is best for me.

24 posted on 02/09/2015 12:18:49 PM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: FatherofFive

“But why do you want to inject mercury into your child? “

Millions have. No problemo. However, your comment is false, not to mention downright ignorant of the fact about Mercury in vaccinations and the fact that immunizations for children under 6 don’t contain it and haven’t for years. But, hey, why let science and facts get in your way. Let you kid get polio or measles or any other disease because mommy is an ignorant idiot that reads crap on the Internet and thinks that makes her a scientist.

Did you know feeding your child a banana is feeding them radiation? Why would you feed your child radiation? That’s right, due to your ignorance of science you didn’t know that Potassium contains radioactive isotopes and that the human body also contains radioactive isotopes.

Wow. I guess you’ll stop feeding your child bananas, won’t you?


25 posted on 02/09/2015 12:30:51 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: tanknetter
> I DO support denying those kids access to many public facilities (including schools), as well as giving private citizens and organizations complete latitude to demand proof of vaccination and to deny service or entry to those who either refuse to provide it or don’t meet predetermined standards.

You know full well that'll never fly. Gonna make that hold for the illegal alien invaders' kids from over the border?

Can't do it.

Because it's RAAAAASSSSSIST....

26 posted on 02/09/2015 12:30:54 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: CodeToad
Wow. I guess you’ll stop feeding your child bananas, won’t you?

Yes, we have no bananas. Too much sugar.

From the CDC:

Type of Ingredient Examples Purpose
PreservativesThimerosal (only in multi-dose vials of flu vaccine)* To prevent contamination

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/vaccine-decision/ingredients.html

27 posted on 02/09/2015 12:43:17 PM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: FatherofFive

I used to play with mercury in my hands. Don’t be a pussy.


28 posted on 02/09/2015 12:55:08 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: I cannot think of a name

“I begin my days as I believe every woman should: by showering naked with 25 or so other naked women. I can’t begin to tell you the difference that this can make in a woman’s life. After a few years in the locker room, everything seems okay, much seems beautiful and nothing surprises me at all.”

This most certainly qualifies her to lecture us all on vaccines.”

It does not qualify her to speak of vaccinations. But it makes her a very wide woman. And not guilty.


29 posted on 02/09/2015 12:58:02 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino

Oops,, make that wise. I like the girl already. All 26 of them can stop by anytime.


30 posted on 02/09/2015 1:01:35 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: skippyjonjones

Kids can’t get the vaccines until they are 12 months old. So when your unvaccinated mongrels bring measles to daycare, it puts the young ones at risk. try to keep up.


So your wife was vaccinated as a kid and couldn’t give immunity to her child with her milk?? That’s why your baby got measles at daycare. He wouldn’t have caught it if he were drinking breast milk from a mommy who was genuinely immune for life.


31 posted on 02/09/2015 1:06:01 PM PST by Yaelle (No Cruz? Then "I'm Ready for Hillary; What Difference Does It Make?")
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To: Teotwawki

You get it.

Too many freepers think they are intelligent and consider the truth and freedom but not where vaccines are concerned. No grey areas, no thought to how imperfect today’s vaccines are.


32 posted on 02/09/2015 1:07:48 PM PST by Yaelle (No Cruz? Then "I'm Ready for Hillary; What Difference Does It Make?")
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To: CodeToad

You have quite the attitude but you are wrong. The flu vaccine is recommended for under 6 and even for pregnant women (whose babies are definitely under 6) and it still contains Mercury. Also, many child vaccinations are full of aluminum.


33 posted on 02/09/2015 1:11:36 PM PST by Yaelle (No Cruz? Then "I'm Ready for Hillary; What Difference Does It Make?")
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To: rickmichaels
Like Ebola. We wouldn't have it so much if we didn't import it.

The 600 lb gorilla in the room is the invasion of undocumented people without any medical workup, and the distribution of them and their pet diseases and parasites far and wide without regard for the indigenous residents.

Must be another VJ "payback" for the white man bringing novel diseases to the New World.

34 posted on 02/09/2015 1:15:52 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Yaelle

I think people like you have the attitudes. You think anyone that doesn’t believe in the same stupid nonsense that you do is not only wrong but has an attitude. Stupid people should just shut up. I hate liberals.


35 posted on 02/09/2015 1:18:13 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: FatherofFive

I bet had shots and any kids you have had shots. I don’t see you dead.


36 posted on 02/09/2015 1:19:41 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: AppyPappy
Thimerosal has been removed from or reduced to trace amounts in all vaccines routinely recommended for children 6 years of age and younger, with the exception of inactivated influenza vaccine (see Table 1).

http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/VaccineSafety/UCM096228

I guess y'all had best let the FDA know.

Now, how does that compare with the trace amounts in the average light bulb?

37 posted on 02/09/2015 1:20:37 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: DesertRhino
I used to play with mercury in my hands. Don’t be a pussy.

Clearly, playing with mercury has affected your thought process.

38 posted on 02/09/2015 1:45:47 PM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: Justa
...why do they feel the need to force them upon others?

Yeah, exposing measles to an infant that hasn't had their shots yet.....what could possibly go wrong? At that age, they don't even have an immune system. But the anti-vax numb-skulls have no problem allowing their unvaccinated children to inflict disease upon the most vulnerable and innocent of society. Nothing like an infant in the ICU fighting for his life because some parent is too stupid to vaccinate their kids.

39 posted on 02/09/2015 1:47:41 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mmogamer
I believe some flu shots still do use thimerosal. Beyond those, however, it is no longer used in this country. I wonder if those who fear it know the difference between ethylmercury and methylmercury.

I also wonder if they prefer bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus in their vaccines rather than a preservative.

40 posted on 02/09/2015 1:54:19 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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