Are vaccines medically necessary

Answer 1

1. Yes, the reason that there is an argument about it is because so many people were vaccinated that we don't see the dire results that these diseases bring.

2. It depends on who you ask. If you asked pharmaceutical company employees (or the person who answered this question first), you would probably hear overwhelming support for vaccinations. If you asked mainstream medical doctors, you may hear support for them publically/professionally, but their private thoughts may be another matter. If you asked parents whose children have died or been afflicted with neurological impairments as a result of vaccinations, you would probably hear an entirely different answer.

In my opinion, most of the diseases against which we are recommended to vaccinate our children are relatively mild diseases and are treatable by antibiotics. Measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, and chicken pox are usually fairly mild and will contribute to a strengthened immune system. Polio is pretty much obsolete. Only one case has surfaced within the last ten years in the U.S., and it was actually caused by the oral polio vaccine. Diptheria is extremely rare. Moreover, children shouldn't be getting vaccines for uterine cancer (especially boys), and they shouldn't be getting vaccines for Hepatitis B, a sexually transmissible disease.

In my opinion, not only do children not need these vaccines, the vaccines themselves carry risks. Google the risks. Furthermore, even if they are successful in conferring immunity (it can be argued that effective hygiene and health habits have been more successful in eliminating certain diseases than vaccines) that artificially acquired immunity has a shelflife. Naturally acquired immunity (strengthening ones immune system through getting mild diseases) does not have a shelflife.

Finally, children have developing immune systems. Why do we as a culture feel that it is okay to inject them with known toxins/poisons in the name of preventing relatively benign diseases; diseases that can actually help them develop strong, mature immune systems? I'll take a stab at the answer: Pharmaceutical companies have a great deal of money and power. They fund the medical schools and participate in curriculum development. They have long been pulling the strings of government at all levels, and the media is very supportive (perhaps because the Boys Club is actually very small). The average consumer believes what (s)he is told, especially when it comes from "reliable" sources like the CDC, a government-sponsored TV ad, or a pediatrician, and has such great faith in those sources (or is just complacent) that (s)he feels that there would be no net benefit in doing his/her own research. Actually, it goes a little beyond that. The average person is terrified that (s)he will be "labelled" as irresponsible (or just plain wacky) by others if (s)he doesn't participate in vaccinating his/her children. This is something that the pro-vaccination campaigns know well, and they are very good at stimulating this natural human social anxiety. That peculiarity, the need to "fit in with the herd", has made trillions of dollars for those associated with the vaccination campaigns. It's really a very lucrative industry. Too bad it's not legitimate because I'd buy stock otherwise.