{"id":3968,"date":"2016-09-15T01:55:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T08:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2016-09-15T09:57:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T16:57:49","slug":"and-now-a-word-about-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=3968","title":{"rendered":"And now a word about vaccinations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"deerhome\"<\/a>Autism wasn\u2019t a thing when I was in school. Neither was ADD or Dyslexia or Power Rangers. Does that mean they didn\u2019t exist? Well, except for Power Rangers, of course they did. If a child was severely challenged physically or mentally they went to special schools or were bunged away in hospital wards. Autism did exist but was diagnosed\u00a0 <\/span>at the far end of the spectrum, only differentiated from Childhood Schizophrenia by age of onset. Both were considered equally untreatable and placed in those special hospitals with minimal care and no future.<\/p>\n

The one thing they knew for sure about autism was that, because there weren\u2019t many, it wasn\u2019t caused by vaccines.<\/p>\n

Nope, we had to fall back on the tried and true cause of all the ills of society: bad mothers.\"dancing<\/a> Incompetent mothering caused over-active boys who couldn\u2019t sit still or concentrate. Bad moms caused girls failing in school because they didn\u2019t apply themselves. Flunked grade 5? Bad mom. Homicidal maniac? Bad mom.\u00a0 <\/span>Wearing make-up in grade 9 and suddenly going off to spend 8 months with Aunt Cecelia in Saskatoon? Bad mom creating a new generation of bad moms\u2026.<\/p>\n

But that was then and this is now.<\/p>\n

Now we are enlightened and understand so much more about diagnosing and treating impediments to learning like\u00a0 <\/span>ADHD and Dyslexia. We understand children may learn in different ways to the standardized school model and that even the most severely mentally challenged individual is still alert to the world around them. We see the person and not the ability or impediment.<\/p>\n

Then along comes this new movement. The anti-vaccination movement is an emotional bomb. The is no reasoning with the people who have taken up this cause because of this\u00a0emotional commitment. You are threatening their children. Because someone took their child in for a vaccination and within days that happy, healthy responsive child became autistic.<\/p>\n

\"Girl-with-a-Balloon-by-Banksy\"<\/a>The need to place blame is irresistible. Especially to new mothers trying to sort out what is best for their baby. It is important to stress here they are not the ones responsible for this misguided campaign.<\/p>\n

Instead, blame the people who have made a career out of promoting the idea a child develops autism because of receiving a vaccination. An\u00a0idea that is wrong on so many levels, partly because it exploits this emotional vulnerability \u00a0but mostly because it is just a brand new way of\u00a0 <\/span>telling the mom it\u2019s her fault.\u00a0 <\/span>Her child is like this because she listened to her doctor instead of experts like Jenny McCarthy, Bill Mahr. Jim Carrey and Robert Kennedy Jr. .<\/p>\n

The trend over the past few years has been to back peddle somewhat on the anti-vaxxer rhetoric. The current cart and pony show theory is not that vaccines are unsafe but that we give too many shots to our children in too short a period of time. It overwhelms their little immune systems. Also, we\u2019re seeing more things like ADD and asthma because our bodies aren\u2019t being allowed to develop resistance naturally. A dose of measles is just the thing to whip a 5 year old\u2019s immune system into shape. Maybe a touch of Typhus or good old fashioned Diphtheria?<\/p>\n

\u00a0 <\/span>Science and statistics don\u2019t work like that. The simple truth is more people are being \"rookeries-hogarth\"<\/a>diagnosed with these illnesses because more people have access to doctors. And doctors are getting better at differentiating between a rambunctious lad and ADHD. I\u2019m pretty sure there were people suffering from asthma and colitis in the St. Giles Rookeries of the 1800\u2019s but no doctor ever saw them. Besides, if you weren\u2019t killed in a mine accident, got sucked into a cotton gin or run over by a Hansom cab on its way to a ball, you could look forward to a short life filled with consumption, scabies and gin.<\/p>\n

If someone were to start talking about race relations and the dangers in miscegenation you would quite rightly show that person the error of their ways while vigorously assisting them them down the stairs.<\/p>\n

\"eugenics\"<\/a>Phrenology, eugenics and miscegenation are all based on the same not-science as anti-vaccination. We don\u2019t hesitate to tell a racist they\u2019re racist. Why then hold back from\u00a0enlightening\u00a0someone who promotes exposing\u00a0<\/span>children and adults to illness, miscarriage, physical deformity and emotional scarring because they read a study somewhere by some guy that said the science isn\u2019t really complete on this.<\/p>\n

Ever since Dr. Lister first clapped eyes on a milk maid, there have been people claiming vaccinations are poison. The sad thing is, after all these years, the people promoting this nonsense can still\u00a0gather an audience.<\/p>\n

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