When our daughter was born in 1977, there was a TV programme on the BBC no less, about the brain damage being caused to children by the whooping cough vaccine. It was introduced by Professor Gordon(?) Stewart, who was I think the Chief Medical Officer. I vividly remember him showing a graph demonstrating how much the death rate from infe…
When our daughter was born in 1977, there was a TV programme on the BBC no less, about the brain damage being caused to children by the whooping cough vaccine. It was introduced by Professor Gordon(?) Stewart, who was I think the Chief Medical Officer. I vividly remember him showing a graph demonstrating how much the death rate from infectious childhood diseases had declined before the introduction of vaccinations. (We were shocked, although a friend had already told us that his milkman's child had died from a smallpox vaccine.) Imagine such information being broadcast today! I honestly thought that I would rather my child died from whooping cough than have their life saved at such a horrible cost to another family. Of course all three grew up perfectly healthily and went through measles, chicken pox with no major problems. I think people avoid facing this problem because it's hard to imagine that the powers that be could be so uncaring and ruthless.
I had a BCG vaccine at age 15 in 1975. I had what was thought to be German measles that late spring, I think not long after the shot. I now suspect the vaccine. I was very ill for 2 weeks, temperature at least 104 F.
I have always been 100% natural person , since birth .. but when i got together with my partner who is a doctor and pharmacist I was amazed that he and his friends were far more cynical and skeptical of medications and vaccines than i was. I was told almost immediately that sanitation etc was the main thing reducing illness but vaxes took the credit. This stuff was the prevailing viewpoint a few decades ago. Now we are entering a communitarian global ethic whereby its more about the collective and nature etc so the individual wellbeing wont be so defended . Its really important to read up on communitarian policy re polio in inda and africa. i keep trying to post about it but lost my twitter each time i tried ... so i think its important !
Wow! At my pre-natal classes 10 years ago, they showed us a video of a baby with whooping cough. It was a very distressing video. The clear implication being: "why would you want to risk your baby getting this? Get him/her vaccinated!". (I can't remember if they actually said that or not, but likely they did).
When our daughter was born in 1977, there was a TV programme on the BBC no less, about the brain damage being caused to children by the whooping cough vaccine. It was introduced by Professor Gordon(?) Stewart, who was I think the Chief Medical Officer. I vividly remember him showing a graph demonstrating how much the death rate from infectious childhood diseases had declined before the introduction of vaccinations. (We were shocked, although a friend had already told us that his milkman's child had died from a smallpox vaccine.) Imagine such information being broadcast today! I honestly thought that I would rather my child died from whooping cough than have their life saved at such a horrible cost to another family. Of course all three grew up perfectly healthily and went through measles, chicken pox with no major problems. I think people avoid facing this problem because it's hard to imagine that the powers that be could be so uncaring and ruthless.
Thank you for sharing this, Sheila.
'Dissolving Illusions' by Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk is an excellent book on the history of vaccination.
Agreed. It really helped me see vaccines differently.
I had a BCG vaccine at age 15 in 1975. I had what was thought to be German measles that late spring, I think not long after the shot. I now suspect the vaccine. I was very ill for 2 weeks, temperature at least 104 F.
I have always been 100% natural person , since birth .. but when i got together with my partner who is a doctor and pharmacist I was amazed that he and his friends were far more cynical and skeptical of medications and vaccines than i was. I was told almost immediately that sanitation etc was the main thing reducing illness but vaxes took the credit. This stuff was the prevailing viewpoint a few decades ago. Now we are entering a communitarian global ethic whereby its more about the collective and nature etc so the individual wellbeing wont be so defended . Its really important to read up on communitarian policy re polio in inda and africa. i keep trying to post about it but lost my twitter each time i tried ... so i think its important !
Wow! At my pre-natal classes 10 years ago, they showed us a video of a baby with whooping cough. It was a very distressing video. The clear implication being: "why would you want to risk your baby getting this? Get him/her vaccinated!". (I can't remember if they actually said that or not, but likely they did).