Analysis of my vaccine history. Cold and wet. Russian brutality.

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Pursuing the thought of vaccines, I looked through my records to find which ones I had gotten. The evidence is that eight decades ago my Dr. Marsh was quite a fan of vaccines. I got everything that was available. Which, compared to today isn’t that much. Here is a list of the CDC’s recommended childhood vaccinations as of 2022, with the ones I got in bold:

o   Dengue
o   Diphtheria, tetanus, & acelular pertussis (DPT)
o   Haemophilus infuenzae type b (Hib)
o   Hepatitis A
o   Hepatitis B (HepB)
o   Human papillomavirus (HPV)
o   Influenza (IIV4)
o   Influenza (LAIV4)
o   Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)
o   Meningococcal
o   Pnemonia
o   Polio
o   Rotavirus
o   Varicella

I got several other vaccinations along the way. The Army immunized me against following more exotic diseases, which are not on the childhood schedule:
o   Typhus
o   Typhoid
o   Plague
o   Cholera

In my travels overseas I was also vaccinated against:
o   Hepatitis A, now on the childhood schedule
o   Typhoid
o   Yellow fever  

When my former father-in-law was with us in the early 2000s I got the flu shot a couple of years.

I also got the smallpox vaccination, which was already known to be dangerous and is now dropped because it is not worth the risk.

They’re talking about dropping polio.  Most modern cases seem to be vaccine-induced.  They have been working so hard to eradicate the disease that it’s hard to give up the program, but many consider that working for total eradication doesn’t make sense.

A comparison of the CDC list and what I got raises some questions. I never contracted any of the diseases for which they now vaccinate.  If anybody I know caught them I didn’t hear about it. I do not think they are that dangerous. What is the risk/benefit balance on each of them?

The CDC considers vaccines the only acceptable preventative/curative measures for most diseases. We now know better about Covid. Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin have been shown to be effective at both prophylaxis and cure. The CDC has approved expensive new patented medicines such as remdescivir and paxlovid after it has become clear that the vaccines do not prevent Covid. The jury is still out on whether or not these new compounds work, but the CDC has validated the notion that you might treat these things with medicines instead of merely preventing them with vaccines.

The mechanism by which ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine prevent and cure Covid is pretty simple. These drugs are ionophores - they help get zinc into your cells - and the zinc hinders viral replication.

Zinc is incredibly simple – a single element. It may well hinder replication of many other viruses. If that is so, the protocol used for Covid it could well be effective in treating measles and other viral diseases.

My bet is that it has not been tried because (1) the theory is that the vaccines, such as MMR, are “safe and effective” and there was no felt need for a pharmaceutical approach, and (2) there is no money to be made in generic medications, so nobody is willing to fund testing.  That’s a major downside of our privately funded “public” health system

The clinical trials for all vaccines are run the same way as they were for Covid. The comparison is between outcomes for vaccinated people versus unvaccinated and untreated people. Effective treatments are never factored into the comparison. There has not yet been a study of the outcomes of ivermectin-treated people versus vaccinated people. The vested interests simply don’t want to ask the question.

A mother with natural immunity to diseases such as measles confers immunity on her baby for the first year or more of its life. It turns out that measles is most dangerous in that first year and later in adulthood.  It is least dangerous in childhood, when most kids get it.  Therefore, in assessing the benefits natural immunity one must consider not only the infected generation but the subsequent generation as well.

Now that Covid has awakened us to the dangers to which Bobby Kennedy and others have long been alerting us with regard to a great many of the vaccines, it makes sense to look for drugs to treat childhood diseases in addition to inoculations to prevent them.

The discussion about Covid has brought out that there is an additional advantage to treating the disease rather than vaccinating against it. Lifelong immunity. People who get Covid have good long-term immunity. The shots, as Joe Biden demonstrates, offer immunity that is measured only in months.  Same is true, though with different timeframes, for most vaccines.  I got boosted with the standard childhood vaccines, above, when I went overseas again in 1998. 

The MMR provides longer duration immunity than Covid vaccines, but there is still a need for boosters into adulthood. Moreover, there are certain diseases such as mumps, chicken pox and measles that are more damaging if you get them as an adult. If we invest in finding pharmaceutical approaches to cure diseases rather than vaccinating against them, we may achieve better long-term results.

Instead of calling us names, please consider us “anti-vaxxers” advocates of the scientific approach. Let’s continue the search for optimal methods of prevention and treatment of disease, independent of the financial impact on vested interests such as pharmaceutical companies.  In my mind the evidence is that none of the vaccines on the childhood schedule are justified.  Nonetheless I have an open mind. If the CDC can produce evidence for any of them using a transparent, unbiased approach I will consider it.

Advocates say that vaccines supplanted centuries of superstition about disease. I would say that it is high time that we apply scientific methods to investigate a century of Rockefeller, Bill Gates, drug company-sponsored superstition about vaccines.

It is August and my lawn is still incredibly green. It has been a cold, wet year. We have not watered it more than about five times.

At Eddie’s suggestion we got smart and bought some netting to put under the cherry plum tree to catch the fruit. I wrote last week that it look like a small harvest this year. Perhaps, but we still get quite a bit. One harvest the size of this one is already in the freezer, and I have a pot full that I took out of the net last night waiting to go into an apple pie. It is as tart as lemon, tastes just as good, and it is free.

Marianna is finding her own mind. Yesterday at dinner I was eating some of the moussaka I had made yesterday morning to greet Oksana when she came in the door. Marianna came and asked to sit on my lap, indicating she wanted some. Grandmother Nadia disapproved – she does this all the time – saying in this instance that the meat would be bad for the baby’s stomach. I ignored grandmother and Marianna went on eating happily. Grandmother scornfully took her off my lap to feed her a proper dinner of baby yogurt. I had to smile as Marianna very emphatically turned her head to indicate that she didn’t want it. Hooray Marianna! I am convinced there is nothing special about baby yogurt except the elevated price, and that she will do just fine eating such adult food that she likes. With the exception of course of too many sweets.

In War news, just as European enthusiasm for the war here in Ukraine starts to flag, Russia does more stupid things. There is a video floating around of Vitaly Aroshanov, a Russian soldier castrating a Ukrainian prisoner of war. They killed about 50 Ukrainian POWs in shelling their own POW camp at Olinevka about 10 miles southwest of the city of Donetsk and blaming it on the Ukrainians. How stupid can you get? At any rate the French and Italian press are up in arms about the inhuman brutality of the Russians. No matter that their own economies are in trouble, I think that the weapons will continue to flow our direction.

That’s the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the strong man welcomed the good-looking lady of the house with open arms, and the battle of the sexes continues unabated. Fortunately, with good humor.

Graham