Vaccinegate

[PaulConventionWV]

Inb4 angelatc wishes death on the children of anti-vaxxers. Any comment, angela? No? Gee, that's strange. Maybe the supposed scientific proof isn't so set-in-stone after all, huh?

[mosquitobite]

Again- correlation is not causation but so far the strongest link they have come up with is age of parents- both of them but particularly the father. People are having kids at later ages in their own lives than they used to. As we age, our genes develop more mutations and those can be passed onto offspring. The older the parent, the more mutations they can pass along.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/aging-da...enia-and-more/

More at link.

So if we know that older fathers may be passing along defective genes - what if the vaccines are an environmental trigger that activates a body's response? What triggers the inflammation (often called encephalitis on the vaccine pamphlets)?

If we know there is something about older fathers that seems to be a correlation - why not do a study that looks at vaccinated vs non-vaccinated kids under that sub-set?

For the record, my son had about 5 risk factors for autism right from birth. Knowing that - I felt strongly I could not risk activating or triggering some underlying DNA defect. My husband's uncle is in a home because he was born mentally challenged. My husband is ten years older than me and we got a late start anyways. My husband and I both have an auto-immune disorder (in case you're unaware - yet another correlation is a mother with an auto-immune disorder). And of course my son is a male.

As the one ultimately responsible for my son's health - I made the decision, with my husband's full support, that he would not be getting vaccines. Tell me I'm uninformed and a baby killer. I don't care. All I know is that my son is NOT a statistic and instead is well behaved, and academically ahead of his peers in school. Perhaps it wouldn't have mattered and the vaccines would not have caused him harm. But once you've injected, you can't take it out. Once the trigger has been set, there is no going back. He can always get them later if he chooses, or I can get him caught up later. But a delayed/selective or anti-vax stance, from my personal research, was the ONLY option for this family. Period.

Isn't that what liberty is all about?

And if we know the possible correlations for autism - shouldn't parents have that information presented to them so they can make a fully INFORMED decision???

My final thought - we don't expect that penicillin is safe for everyone. When someone has a slight reaction, medicine proceeds accordingly. Why is that thought thrown out the window just because it's a vaccine? Why do they INSIST on a one-size-fits-all when we know our DNA is all different?