Unvaccinated Kids Put Vaccinated Kids At Risk? Not So Fast!

Persuaded to Vaccinate

Vaccines. The media is doing a brilliant job at making sure we believe they are:

1. safe
2. effective
3. the only protection from disease.

In magazines and doctor’s office packets we are fed propaganda that is generally under-researched and contradicting. Here is an example I found just yesterday in Parenting Magazine.

They state that unvaccinated kids put vaccinated kids at risk. There are three problems with this fear tactic:

1. Vaccinated kids are supposed to be immune. That should mean they won’t contract the disease even if they come into contact with it. So, either the vaccines don’t work or the statement is just false.
2. Vaccines don’t require that 100% of the population is vaccinated in order to eradicate a disease. This is called herd immunity.
3. Some vaccinations lose their effectiveness after a few years, pertussis being the most recent example, yet unvaccinated kids are still blamed for the outbreak. (The author spent the whole article villainizing the parents of unvaccinated kids and added this tidbit as an end note.)

Herd Immunity

The entire population does not actually need to be vaccinated in order for a vaccine to be effective. According to the CDC,

“The theory behind the development of herd immunity is: in diseases that can be
passed from person to person, it is more difficult to pass that disease easily when
there are those who are immune to it. The more immune individuals there are, the
less likely it is that a susceptible person will come into contact with someone who
has the disease” – from slide 16

For example, percentages of the population which needs to be vaccinated in order for a vaccination to be effective are as follows for various diseases:

So, why do we see this no-tolerance mentality, then, if unvaccinated kids aren’t hurting anybody? Two reasons.

Compliance

The first is that reaching those percentages is very important for the vaccine to eradicate a disease (if the vaccine is actually responsible for eradicating it at all – in many cases the disease was on its way out [diseases have a life cycle] at the same time that the vaccine was released). So how do you get such a large percentage of the population to comply? Put it in their faces constantly and scare them into believing that it is absolutely necessary.

Big Business

The second reason is because vaccines are big business now. There are billions and billions of dollars being made on sticking needles in us. In the article How Vaccines Became Big Business (it’s long but well worth the time) you’ll see how what was once a money losing business became a multi billion dollar monopoly. Fear of pandemic and a chance scientific discovery (adjuvants) made large scale vaccine production not only necessary but possible.

The three big vaccine players Glaxo, Novartis, and Sanofi-Aventis started looking for ways to gain consistent revenue, rather than periodic spikes in revenue whenever a disease scare hit. So that’s what they do now. They find diseases to vaccinate for and they create the vaccine. They tell the population that they need it and we believe them. But it’s not a whole lot different from believing that we need prozac for depression or Ibuprofen for headaches. We don’t need their drugs. They need our money.

Later this week I’ll be posting some more thoughts on vaccinations and what you should be doing to boost your child’s immune system if you don’t vaccinate.

How to be a Responsible Parent of Unvaccinated Kids by Boosting Natural Immunity