Held Hostage by Government Drug Dealers

We have all seen the advertisement that if we do not get vaccinated against whooping cough and we are grand-parents we could kill our newborn grand-children. What facts do they actually have that will happen? Is it a real threat or is it just another way the pharmaceutical companies have of selling their wares?

I am not one to jump up and fly to the nearest doctor's office to get vaccinated simply because I see it on a television commercial, but because my son asked me to before I came to visit my first grand-child, I thought it wise to do so. He had the same misgivings I had (was it really necessary?). I had not been sick nor had I been around anyone who had whooping cough, ever.

Getting the injection was no problem. Finding someone who had it in stock was a problem in my area.
Apparently us silly southerners do not keep in stock that which is not necessary. I almost did not get it, but then I might have to lie to my son and that was not even in my thought processes. I would rather do something unnecessary than lie to him.

What got me all fired up about this nonsense was getting the bill. $155.00 for a shot that is apparently not covered by either insurance, but I cannot say that for certain as the EOB's (Explanation Of Benefits from the insurance companies) have not arrived.

Is it necessary? Maybe not. Almost 20% of fully vaccinated children with a persistent cough have whooping cough.

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“In the US, from January 1 to June 16, 2014, there have been nearly 10,000 cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, confirmed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This is a 24 percent increase compared to the same time period in 2013.1 The CDC maintains that the best way to prevent pertussis is to get vaccinated, but this deserves a closer look.
CDC data shows 84 percent of children under the age of 3 have received at least FOUR DTaP shots and yet, despite this high vaccination rate, whooping cough still keeps circulating among both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.
The vaccine is clearly ineffective, and it's not just failing to prevent whooping cough in the US. In the UK, researchers similarly revealed that nearly 20 percent of fully vaccinated children still contracted whooping cough.” (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/07/08/whooping-cough-outbreak.aspx)

Four Reasons Why Pertussis Epidemics Persist

With high vaccination rates, many people would assume (and the government would lead you to believe) that disease outbreaks would be prevented. This clearly is not the case with pertussis, and Peggy O'Mara, the former editor and publisher of Mothering Magazine, recently shared four reasons why:

1. Pertussis Is Cyclical by Nature

Whooping cough is a cyclical disease and natural increases tend to occur every 4-5 years no matter how high the vaccination rates are in a population. According to the CDC:7

"Since the early 1980s, there has been an overall trend of an increase in reported pertussis cases. Pertussis is naturally cyclic in nature, with peaks in disease every 3-5 years. But for the past 20-30 years, we've seen the peaks getting higher and overall case counts going up.

There are several reasons that help explain why we're seeing more cases as of late. These include: increased awareness, improved diagnostic tests, better reporting, more circulation of the bacteria, and waning immunity."

2. Pertussis Vaccine Immunity Wanes Over Time

Pertussis vaccine loses much of its effectiveness after just three years. This is much faster than previously believed, and could also help explain the recent whooping cough outbreaks in the US. The CDC acknowledges that waning immunity is common with the DTaP vaccine:8

3. Vaccinated Individuals May Still Spread Pertussis

The pertussis booster vaccine for adolescents and adults is called Tdap. The Tdap vaccine is recommended for children aged 7 years and older, as well as adults, parents, and close family members of babies under age 2 months, who are too young to receive a pertussis-containing vaccine themselves.

Known as "cocooning," this controversial practice is being promoted by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and government health officials as a way of protecting babies from whooping cough by vaccinating their parents and other adult caregivers.

However, there is little evidence to show that this works! In fact, research shows that vaccinated individuals may still transmit the disease. In an animal study, while whole cell DPT and acellular-pertussis-vaccinated baboons did not develop serious clinical disease symptoms—such as loss of appetite and cough—when they were exposed to the B. pertussis bacteria, they still colonized B. pertussis in their throats and were capable of transmitting the infection to other baboons.9

The study's lead author Tod Merkel also explained that when exposed to B. pertussis after recently getting vaccinated, you could be an asymptomatic carrier and infect others, saying:10

"When you're newly vaccinated, you are an asymptomatic carrier, which is good for you, but not for the population."

A Canadian study also investigated how many parents would need to be vaccinated in order to prevent infant hospitalizations and deaths from pertussis using the cocoon strategy, and the results were dismal. They found the number needed to vaccinate (NNV) for parental immunization was at least 1 million to prevent 1 infant death, approximately 100,000 for ICU admission, and >10,000 for hospitalization.11

4. Tdap Booster Is Only Moderately Effective

With the short-lived immunity of pertussis vaccine apparent, the Tdap booster shot is recommended for older children and adults. But research has shown that the booster shot is only 53 percent to 64 percent effective, which the researchers described as "moderate."12 There is also concern that the mass use of pertussis vaccines has already led to vaccine-resistant strains (so-called "escape mutants") that are evolving more rapidly and may become more virulent due to the overuse of the same vaccine strains.

The new mutation, which some researchers are calling "P3," is a strain that produces more pertussis toxin (PT).13 Another reason why whooping cough cannot be entirely eradicated is the fact that there's another Bordetella organism – parapertussis – that can also cause whooping cough. The symptoms of B. parapertussis, while often milder, can look exactly like B. pertussis, but doctors rarely recognize or test for parapertussis. And, there is NO vaccine for it.

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If the vaccination actually causes a person to be a carrier, are we doing the proper thing in creating an environment of fear; rushing older people to the doctor or pharmacy to get a vaccine that makes them a carrier in the short term and causing the very thing in that newborn grandchild that we were trying to avoid?  

In our quest to be protected by the government from all contagions, are we giving them far too much power over our lives?  Are we really to believe everything that comes out of the mouths of professional advertisers and pharmaceutical shills?

Shalom!  Pray for the PEACE of Jerusalem!