KBG

There is an issue here with a perceived "emergency" when there is no such thing. The one ADULT who contracted measles in Oregon from the Disney "outbreak" has fully recovered. The Disney measles spread started with an Adult. I don't get where we have to even TALK of mandates for children when it was adults who spread the disease. There are more issues than that: the money from the pharmaceutical companies given to politicians who would vote for the bill, the questionable safety (oral polio), efficacy (mumps), and need (chicken pox/flu) of the vaccines that would be mandated, the issue of informed consent being removed for a medical procedure that carries risk (encephalitis, seizure, fever). If the people of this great country would actually READ the information out there from trusted sources (VAERS, CDC, vaccine inserts), they would see what I see: a real chance to harm a perfectly healthy kid with an injection of a synthetic substance. I am a biologist. I am also a veterinary technician, an herbalist, and a mother. I know vaccines. Yes, vaccines work great for the population of animals however, there ARE risks in the individuals. I injected a perfectly healthy black lab with Merck's Rabies vaccine and it was dead within 12 hours. When cats were dying of cancer, they didn't change the vaccine, they changed the location of the shot so they could remove a leg if it got cancerous. We removed cats' legs (the lucky ones) because of VACCINE-RELATED Fibrosarcoma. I can't tell you how many animals I saw seizure from the Leptospirosis vaccine, so they decided to vaccinate only if the lifestyle required it (hunting dogs). But these are dogs, animals. I feel EVERY child is an individual and are individually important to society. I do not feel a child with a terminal illness should be placed above a child with a healthy immune system. There should be no martyrs in our society of children - no child should HAVE to be vaccinated for the safety of another while risking their own safety. Instead of removing options (Tetanus only vaccine was discontinued in 2014), there should be MORE options to vaccinate. We are not a cookie-cutter people and our vaccine choices should reflect that. There is a great experiment happening right now with the newly approved meningitis vaccine to the students of the U of O. If MY kid were in that college, I'd get them out of the dorm or encourage a semester off instead of encouraging them to be a test subject for the CDC. There ARE things other than vaccination that will keep us healthy: food choices, lifestyle choices,habits to break. I feel that NATURE knows more than we do. There is new research in using VIRUSES to cure cancer - how amazing!! Science is EVER-CHANGING... it is not stagnant and it is not finished in the case of vaccines. Its only just begun.