Questions about vaccines
I have reviewed a great many books on vaccines. None of them are comprehensive – no single book can approach answering all of the questions. The biggest question is whether or not to get yourself or your children vaccinated. Answering that question requires analysis of the answers to a vast number of other questions. Nobody can even name all the questions, and there is certainly no agreement on which questions ought to be included. The purpose of today’s blog is to at least enumerate most of the questions, in outline format, so they can be examined systematically.
Alex Berenson recently mentioned the rising number of measles cases in the United States and tried to put it in perspective. The number of cases may be rising, but it is very low compared to the last supposed epidemic of 1989 – 90. It may be attributable to people being unvaccinated, true, but it is not because people have not been being encouraged to get shots.
Two groups of immigrants, Venezuelans and Ukrainians, are largely unvaccinated. I made a comment to the effect that Ukrainians remain unvaccinated in large part because they don’t trust the vaccinations and that I do not in Kyiv hear about a number of the complications attributed to vaccination in the United States. Since the comment was widely liked, I went back through my reviews of books on vaccination to see which ones substantiated my observation.
I have read more on vaccination than anybody I know, but yet I had a hard time locating one particular book. There is so much written on vaccination! There are so many aspects to the question! I started to write them down.
Here is what I have so far. I would hope against hope that some of you would tell me, in the comments, what could be added to the list. However, the conclusion I want to draw is that the subject is too vast to admit any simple answers.
My next steps would be to
Keep this list handy, adding entries as they come to mind.
Put together a matrix, with book titles across the top and checkmarks to indicate whether the particular book addresses the particular topic.
Refer to the matrix as issues come up, recommending where to look for expert opinion
I do not have high hopes for the project. I think the vaccine topic has been beaten to death.
Here is the mind-numbing extent of vaccine topics as I see them now.
..."I do not have high hopes for the project. I think the vaccine topic has been beaten to death."...that may be better than being poisoned to death by vaccines. "Turtles All the Way Down" is an excellent source for understanding how little vaccines have been tested for safety and efficacy.
I have read dozens of vaccine related books and probably not even half of the topics you list are covered. But as not having any vaccinations since the 1960's (that I can recall), being in relatively good health in my mid 70's provides me first hand proof that I require no vaccines and no drugs.