[FLPERMACULTURE] Fwd: New York Trying to Make ALL Vaccines Mandatory!

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As much as I dislike the government in general and government interference  
in particular, I have to agree with Jon.  We do need to keep an eye on the  
pharmaceutical companies.  However, lets not throw the baby out with the  bath 
water. 
 
My g-g grandmother lost all three of her children in one week in  a 
diphtheria epidemic.  She had other children, but it was something that  she never 
recovered from emotionally as you can imagine.  
 
 
Lee
et si omnes
ego non

 
 
In a message dated 5/31/2008 2:32:51 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
bosak at ibiblio.org writes:

I've managed to  hold back so far on joining this thread, but it's
becoming pretty clear  that some people simply don't understand how
vaccination works or the role  it has played in changing the
incidence of infectious disease in this  country over the last
hundred years.

Chris Eshleman  asks:

> Is my deciding to not be vaccinated going to affect someone  who
> has?

The answer is: YES, IT WILL.  The elimination of  epidemics
requires that VIRTUALLY EVERYONE in a given population  be
vaccinated.  If you don't get nearly 100 percent coverage,  then
the control of infectious disease DOESN'T WORK.  The  elimination
of the diseases that once accounted for the vast majority  of
deaths in this country wasn't the result of some plot by "big
pharma"  -- it was a concerted effort by every state in the union
that succeeded  through UNIVERSAL and MANDATORY programs of
inoculation and  treatment.

One of the saddest developments in this country over the  last few
years is the reappearance of diseases once effectively  eradicated
due directly to the refusal of people ignorant of epidemiology  to
conform to the public health standards that once made us the  most
disease-free population on earth.  We're talking here about  major
scourges like polio and whooping cough.

Perhaps the most  frustrating aspect of this development is that
the mechanism requiring 100  percent coverage of a given population
in order to eliminate disease  epidemics has been established for
over a century.  There is nothing  even remotely controversial
about this.  To believe at this point that  vaccination against
these killers is a matter of personal choice is like  believing
that the earth is flat.

Given the drift of this thread, I  wouldn't be surprised to see
someone come back and insist that it's his  right to believe that
the earth is flat.  But such a belief wouldn't  threaten me
personally, whereas the equally ignorant belief that epidemics  can
be prevented through personal choice does threaten me personally.
If  you want to turn back to a nineteenth-century view of the
universe, that's  your business.  But turning back to a
nineteenth-century level of  infectious disease is everyone's
business.

I abhor the intrusion of  government into our personal lives as
much as anyone, but I have to say  that running into someone who
genuinely believes that diseases like  diphtheria and tetanus can
be controlled by "diet and lifestyle" makes me  oddly grateful that
it's  there.

Jon


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