And this would be why we have "No Child Left Behind." Clearly, we cannot have any child escape the mandatory poisioning--I mean healing powers--of vaccines:
At the end of last year, President Bush signed the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREPA), granting blanket immunity to pharmaceutical companies for vaccine-induced injuries. The measure is a carte blanche for industry, allowing it even to reintroduce mercury in vaccines that are currently clean, and under the behest of the World Health Organization, to continue shipping tainted vaccine to the "developing world."
The federal government has known enough to stop the use of mercury in vaccines for more than a decade. Industry has known of the dangers of thimerosal since at least 1991.[1] But using the preservative made the sale of vaccines more profitable. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has at times seemed just as concerned about these profits as the companies themselves! Cynics have noted the "revolving door" between industry and government that seems to alter the perspective of both.
The next time that someone tells you that without the FDA, we'd all be poisoned by bad food and drugs, show them this and this. When I have kids, I'll be damned if they are going to get any vaccines that have even a trace of themerosal in them. Oh, but it's the government and they'd never, ever knowingly let you get hurt, right? Then why are they allowing the pharmaceuticals to put a known neurotoxin into your kid's vaccines?
My dad got a viral vaccine which probably triggered 'transverse myalitis'. He is now paralyzed from the chest down.
Transverse myalitis is the body fighting a virus and somehow causing the spine to swell. Paralyzation of some type and various duration can result. He might recover some, all, or none of his lost movement.
It makes me think twice before wanting a vaccine for viruses.
But, it does NOT make me want to sue the company that made it. Soemtimes, stuff happens...
Roland,
I would agree with you that chances are, there was nothing they could have done about your dad's case, but that's not really what this is about. They know that there are real dangers to the mercury that they put in those vaccines, that it can cause autism or death in children, but they do it anyway. That is the outrageous part about this. It's not an honest mistake, rather it is something that they know they could avoid.
Granted, I do think the solution would be to get the government out of the vaccine-buying game, except for the military.