By Dr. Mercola
Your freedom of thought, conscience and religious beliefs are under
attack, so it is really vital that you listen to the information
brought forth by Barbara Loe Fisher in this interview.
Fisher co-founded the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)
over 30 years ago, and she has been a leader in the field of preserving
your right to make informed medical choices — a basic human right that
has been severely eroded in the U.S. over the past three decades.
"If we don't have the right in this country to make
health care choices, including vaccine choices, that impact our bodies
and the bodies of our children, we're really not free in any sense of
the word," she says.
"I've
seen this evolve over almost 35 years now. It became clear several
decades ago that the goal of public health officials and the medical
trade organizations and industry was to have everyone in the country …
have to get every single government-recommended vaccine …
That is what I saw happening, but I didn't know how long it was going to take."
Unprecedented Attack on Personal Belief Exemptions in 2015
In 2015, American media went berserk reporting an outbreak of
measles at Disneyland. By the time it was all over, there were 131
cases of measles in California; 189 cases nationally.
What was interesting about that outbreak was that 50 percent of the
cases were adults. Only 18 percent were in school-aged children.
Yet that outbreak was used to fuel an all-out assault on vaccine
exemptions in the U.S., specifically the personal belief or religious,
philosophical belief exemptions. As noted by Fisher:
"What
happened in 2015 was unprecedented in terms of the numbers of bills
that were introduced in the States to take away non-medical vaccine
exemptions. There were over 100 bills introduced. There was an assault
in at least 11 states to take away the exemptions.
[P]eople
signed up for our advocacy portal online and we helped them to
preserve the exemption in nine states. But we lost California, which
was a huge loss because that's the biggest state.
The personal belief exemption was eliminated and it
took out both the religious and the philosophical exemption in one fell
swoop …
We have a 94 to 97
percent, sometimes almost 100 percent, vaccine coverage rate with
federally recommended vaccines in the United States … [Yet] in 2015 we
saw the most vicious assault I have ever seen on parents who take
exemptions or who don't give their children all of the vaccines.
There
were calls for these parents to be charged with child medical neglect,
for them to be publicly identified and humiliated online, for them to
be sued, and for them to be jailed.
At
the same time, we saw an assault on doctors; doctors who were critical
of vaccine safety, doctors who were giving children medical vaccine
exemptions, doctors who were taking care of children who were not fully
vaccinated. The rhetoric was over the top in terms of viciousness in
2015.
Again, how many
measles cases did we see in America? 189 cases of measles. Not one
death, not one injury, that I've seen, was reported."
Your Involvement Protected Medical Rights in 2016
This year, yet another 100 vaccine related bills were introduced.
The NVIC opposed about 70 percent of them. Fortunately, only eight of
those bills were actually passed this year, and no vaccine exemptions
were eliminated as a result of them.
The reason for this, Fisher says, is because people saw what
happened in 2015 and started to get involved. People began contacting
their state legislators and showing up for meetings.
I want to express my deep appreciation and gratitude to the large
number of you who participated in this process. Yes, some battles were
still lost, but it is through persistence that we can collectively make
a huge difference.
"It's the only reason we didn't get the medical and religious exemption taken away in Virginia this year," Fisher says. "The only reason was because people got energized and showed up."
Public Health Officials Turn to Militarization
Unfortunately, because we've been successful in stopping these
bills, public health officials are now starting to invoke rulemaking
authority to bypass democratic input altogether.
Rulemaking authority is given by Congress to federal legislators,
and given by state legislators to the people who operate government and
government employees.
On August 15, 2016, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to amend the
Public Health Service Act, which governs public health law.
What they want to do is expand police power. If you travel between
abroad and return feeling unwell, they would have the right to:
Detain you for 72 hours without access to an attorney to appeal the detention
Evaluate you medically
Make you sign a contract that will allow them to vaccinate you or treat you in some other way before you're released
Electronically monitor you after your release
Disease Eradication Efforts Historically Turn Into Militarized Efforts
The same would apply if you travel between states, especially if
you're travelling on an airline. NVIC is vehemently opposed to this.
And while they have not implemented this rule yet, they have the
authority to do so.
"In 2005, they tried this.
They got enough public pushback that they didn't implement. The thing
I'm worried about is that we have a president who's on his way out. He
can issue executive orders. We do not know what is going to happen
between the elections and when he leaves," Fisher says.
"We
don't know if measles is going to be put on that isolation and
quarantine list … They've just declared measles eradicated in the
Americas. If you take a look at the last two years, you'd see this
progression. Clearly it has all been to set up this idea that measles
must be eradicated from the earth.
What
happens when they say "let's eradicate"? Well, we know what happens.
There was a militarization of the public health infrastructure to
eradicate smallpox and polio. This means just what it sounds like. It
means detention, isolation, quarantine and vaccination.
I
am concerned that even if we are successful in protecting state
exemptions, if you have a federal law that allows the militarization of
the public health infrastructure, we're going to be in a very
difficult situation here. What can we do? We have to become involved
in government. We cannot take government for granted and our freedoms
for granted. If we don't hold our elected officials accountable, then
we are going to have laws passed that are going to be oppressive."
Vaccine Roulette and the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986
A major problem today is that industries, and the drug industry in
particular, wields tremendous influence over our federal government,
including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and CDC. Their
presence and influence can be clearly seen just about everywhere.
A perfect example is the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of
1986. Fisher was a young parent of a vaccine injured child when the
documentary "DPT Vaccine Roulette" was aired in the spring of 1982. It
was the first time American parents had been informed that a vaccine
recommended and mandated by the government could brain injure and kill
children.
That film was the catalyst for the formation of NVIC. Within months
of the airing of that film, drug companies declared they would withdraw
childhood vaccines from the U.S. unless Congress indemnified them from
liability.
"We were contacted because we were this new group. There had never been a group like this," Fisher says.
"They said to us, 'We are going to pass legislation to protect the
vaccine supply in this country. You can either come to the table and
argue for what you think the families should get or you cannot come to
the table. But we're going to pass this with or without you.'"
NVIC Helped Put Safety Provisions Into Law
Communication at that time was telephones and snail mail. Messages
could get out via TV or radio, but there was no world wide web and few
had personal computers.
The NVIC had no political power, but they fought as hard as they
could to protect the rights of children and families. One right they
were able to protect was the right to go to court if you could prove
that the manufacturer could have made the vaccine safer or less toxic.
They were also able to get a number of safety provisions in there that
had never existed before, such as:
Doctors would have to give parents vaccine information prior to vaccination
Doctors would have to report vaccine reactions to the federal government
A permanent record of all vaccines given would have to be kept, and
vaccine reactions had to be written into the medical record
Five Years Ago, Vaccine Makers Became Immune to Injury Lawsuits
However, there were no penalties for non-compliance and the safety
provisions were never actually enforced. Then, in 2011, the Supreme
Court heard the case of Bruesewitz versus Wyeth. During this case, drug
companies, the medical trade organizations and government declared
there needed to be an end to any and all lawsuits over vaccine damage.
"The
Supreme Court said, 'Any FDA-licensed vaccine is unavoidably unsafe
and there shall be no more lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers.'
Done. Not even if you could show a vaccine could have been made safer,"
Fisher says.
"On
that same day, the Supreme Court said that seatbelt manufacturers, car
manufacturers, are liable for defective seatbelts, but vaccine
manufacturers are not liable for defective or unsafe vaccines. So here
we are, with the medical trade associations all saying 'no more
non-medical exemptions,' after they have narrowed the medical
exemptions so that no medical condition qualifies for medical
exemption. We have forced vaccines."
Crazy Intimidation Tactics Are Being Used Against Doctors
At present, California pediatrician Dr. Bob Sears is under
investigation and may have his license reprimanded or removed for
"improperly exempting" a 2-year old boy from vaccination.1 According to Sears, the boy should be medically exempt because he had an adverse reaction to a previous vaccine.
However, as noted by Fisher, the medical exemption is so incredibly
narrow, it excludes about 99 percent of all cases — including previous
adverse reactions. What's happening to Sears is sheer harassment and
nothing else, designed to make other doctors think twice before they
suggest a child might be at risk from a vaccine or benefit from less
vaccines.
"The National Childhood Vaccine
Injury Act of 1986 was supposed to be about preventing vaccine
reactions, injuries and deaths. Preventing them so that children
wouldn't have to go to a federal compensation program, or parents
wouldn't have to sue. What has happened? The exact opposite has
happened. It is a betrayal of parents. It's a betrayal of our entire
country.
That law has been
so gutted. We have now called for a repeal of the liability protection.
There should never be liability protection for any industry. Every
industry should be liable for the safety of their products. Why should
[the vaccine industry] get a free pass? …
How
can you mandate a product that can cause injury or death, that some
people are more susceptible to having a reaction to? Basically, [by]
removing the medical exemptions so nothing qualifies. Remove the
personal belief exemption so you can't exercise freedom of conscience
and religious belief, and penalize you if you don't obey the law that
literally could take your life or your child's life.
This is insanity. It's cruel. It is inhuman. You
opened up this interview with the statement that freedom of thought,
conscience, and religious belief is under attack. Absolutely, our bodies
are under attack by laws that are punitive, particularly for those of
us who have genetic or biological reasons for having a greater
susceptibility [for injury]."
Vaccine Injuries Are Real, and More Common Than You're Led to Believe
Vaccine injuries are real. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting
System (VAERS) database, which was created as part of the Vaccine
Compensation Act, shows nearly 350 children have died from the measles,
mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine alone since 1990. Studies have shown this
database underreports by anywhere from 90 to 99 percent, so the real
number may be around 35,000.
Adding insult to injury, the government is not doing a good job on
finding out how many people are actually suffering serious problems
after vaccination. Even when reactions are reported, few are ever
followed up on.
"One of the things that we feel
strongly about at the NVIC is that people who have had vaccine
reactions, whose loved ones have suffered vaccine injury and death, need
to publicly witness. NVIC has had, for more than a decade, the
International Memorial for Vaccine Victims. We were one of the first
websites to really formalize the public reporting of vaccine reactions.
We have a vaccine reaction registry that is 35 years old.
During
Vaccine Awareness Week, we are launching a video reporting edition to
our memorial on NVIC.org. We want people to upload their stories. A
5-minute, no more than 10-minute, description of what happened. This
will live on the memorial for vaccine victims on NVIC.org as long as we
are on the Internet, which hopefully will be always. We call it Project Life: Witness a Vaccine Reaction at NVIC.org …
[T]oday,
most people know somebody who was healthy, got vaccinated, and was
never healthy again. This is what people across the country need to
understand. It can be you. It can be your child, your mother, your
sister, your friend. Everybody is a candidate …
There
is no question there is cover-up going on; that there is failure to do
the kind of scientific research that we need done. They whitewash the
populations that are used to "prove" a vaccine is safe. They don't
mirror the actual population."
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