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
presented by Barbara Loe Fisher in this interview with me.
Fisher co-founded the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) in
1982 and she has been a leading health rights advocate defending the
human right to informed consent to medical risk taking, including the
legal right to make voluntary vaccine choices — a 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 Beliefs in 2015
In 2015, the American media went berserk reporting an outbreak of measles at Disneyland.
By the time the media hysteria hyping irrational fear of measles and
demonizing parents with unvaccinated school children was over, there
had been 131 cases of measles reported in California and only 189 cases
of measles reported nationally for the whole year.
What was interesting about the 2015 measles outbreak that started
all the fear mongering, was that when you looked at the California
cases with vaccine records, it became clear the outbreak was not about
unvaccinated school children at all:
Fifty percent of the reported measles cases were adults and only 18
percent were in school-aged children. Yet that measles outbreak in
2015 was used by industry and medical trade lobbyists to fuel an all-out
assault on personal belief exemptions in state vaccine laws.
It was an assault that specifically targeted the non-medical
exemptions for religious, conscientious or philosophical beliefs filed
by parents so their children can attend school. 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 [NVIC] 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? One hundred
wighty-nine cases of measles. Not one death, not one injury, that I’ve
seen, was reported.”
Your Involvement Protected Health Rights in 2016
This year, yet another 100 vaccine related bills were introduced and
most tried to either add more vaccines to state mandates or restrict
or eliminate vaccine exemptions.
The NVIC opposed about 70 percent of them. Fortunately, only eight
of those bills were actually passed this year, and none of the bills to
eliminate vaccine exemptions passed.
The reason for this, Fisher says, is because people saw what
happened in 2015 and started to get much more involved in the political
process in 2016.
Whenever NVIC put out an Action Alert through the online NVIC
Advocacy Portal, more parents, grandparents, health care professionals
and other concerned citizens personally contacted their state
legislators and showed up for committee meetings and public hearings to
make their concerns known.
It is so important for you to know that you can make a difference
when you take action to protect your freedom and, together, we are
making a difference. This can be seen from the fact that many bad
vaccine bills were defeated this year because people stood up for their
rights.
I want to express my deep appreciation and gratitude to all you who
worked with NVIC and participated in the legislative process in your
states this year. 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 [vaccine] exemption taken away in Virginia this year,” Fisher says. “The only reason was because people got energized and showed up.”
Public Health Officials Militarize Vaccine System Through Rule Making
Unfortunately, because we’ve been successful in stopping these state
bills trying to take away your freedom, public health officials are
now starting to invoke rulemaking authority to bypass the democratic
process 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) published a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) in
the Federal Register to amend the Public Health Service Act, which
governs public health law. We warned you about this several months ago
in this newsletter.
What the CDC wants to do is expand the use of police power to detain
and involuntarily quarantine you if you are traveling by airplane into
the U.S. If you have a cough, rash, low-grade fever or other minor
symptoms of illness, they want to enlist airline personnel to report
you to the CDC.
Then, if public health officials think you might be infected with or
could get infected with measles or another communicable disease, they
want the legal authority to apprehend and:
Detain you for 72 hours without access to an attorney to appeal the detention
Evaluate you medically
Offer you a contract to sign that will allow them to treat you, such as vaccinate you, as a condition of being 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 or by ship, bus or train. NVIC is
vehemently opposed to this and submitted a public comment on Oct. 14,
2016, calling on the CDC to withdraw the NPRM.1
The CDC has not implemented this rule yet but they have the authority
to do so, even though CDC officials received more than 15,500 public
comments by Oct. 14 — most of them opposing the NPRM.
“In 2005, they [CDC officials] 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’ll 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 Before Pharma Blackmailed Congress
A major problem today is that major profit-making industries, and
the drug industry in particular, wield tremendous influence over our
federal government agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) and CDC. Their money, presence and political influence can be
clearly seen on Capitol Hill and just about everywhere.
A perfect example is the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of
1986. Fisher was a young parent of a DPT vaccine injured child when the
television 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 ground breaking investigative report was the catalyst for the
formation of the non-profit charity known today as the National Vaccine
Information Center (NVIC) that Fisher co-founded with other parents of
vaccine injured children.
Within months, drug companies declared they would stop producing childhood vaccines
recommended and mandated by government unless Congress indemnified
them from liability. Congress jumped into action and proposed
legislation to restrict vaccine lawsuits.
“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
parents had personal computers.
Parents of vaccine injured children had no political power, but
NVIC’s co-founders networked with families and fought as hard as they
could to protect the rights of children and families. They preserved
the legal right of parents to sue vaccine manufacturers when there was
evidence the company could have made the vaccine less toxic, and they
got vaccine safety informing, recording and reporting provisions into
the 1986 law — even though the safety provisions have never been
enforced.
Five Years Ago US Supreme Court Banned Vaccine Injury Lawsuits
Then, in 2011, the Supreme Court heard the case of Bruesewitz v.
Wyeth. Vaccine manufacturers, medical trade organizations and the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services declared that all vaccine injury
lawsuits should be banned.
“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.”
Intimidation Tactics Are Being Used Against Doctors
During the measles outbreak of 2015, doctors criticizing vaccine
safety and mandatory vaccination laws or giving children medical
vaccine exemptions were publicly attacked. This year, the state Medical
Board charged California pediatrician Dr. Bob Sears with “gross
negligence” for “improperly exempting” a 2-year old boy from
vaccination.2
Dr. Sears gives vaccines in his practice but allows parents to make
the choice about whether or not to vaccinate their children. He has
been an outspoken supporter of flexible exemptions in mandatory
vaccination laws and now his medical license may be on the line simply
because he wrote a medical vaccine exemption after a child had an
adverse reaction to a previous vaccination.
As noted by Fisher, the medical contraindications that CDC officials
consider an official reason to grant a child a medical vaccine
exemption have become so incredibly narrow that about 99 percent of all
children, including those who have had previous vaccine reactions, do
not qualify for a medical exemption. 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 high risk for suffering a
vaccine reaction. Fisher asks:
“How can you mandate a product that can cause injury or death
that some people are more susceptible to having a reaction to,
basically removing the medical exemptions so nothing qualifies [and
then] 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 [Dr. Mercola]
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 vaccine injury].”
Vaccine Injuries Are 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 that about 71,000 reactions and nearly 350
deaths have been reported following receipt of the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine alone since 1990.
Studies have shown that doctors and other vaccine providers are
massively underreporting injuries and deaths that follow vaccination,
perhaps fewer than 1 to 10 percent of serious adverse events are ever
reported to VAERS, 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 health
problems after vaccination. Even when reactions are reported to VAERS,
health officials rarely follow up on vaccine reaction reports.
NVIC’s Video Vaccine Reaction Reporting on Memorial for Vaccine Victims
This month, NVIC has expanded its online International Memorial for
Vaccine Victims by adding a video vaccine reaction reporting feature
called Protect Life: Witness A Vaccine Reaction at NVIC.org. You can
post a video description of a vaccine reaction that you, your child or
someone you love has experienced, where it will be archived permanently
and accessible to millions of people who visit NVIC.org.
“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.
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 …
I encourage everyone who has had an experience with a vaccine
reaction to participate because when you publicly share your vaccine
reaction story with others, it can turn the terrible tragedies that
have occurred from vaccine injuries into saving lives by making others
aware that vaccines can cause serious harm.
You can take your story, record it on your cell phone or computer
and post it on NVIC’s Memorial for Vaccine Victims. You could save 100,
1,000, 10,000, 1 million people’s lives because they were so inspired
by your story that they understood the truth, finally. If more people
do this, the more compelling the evidence becomes.
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