Read on for the conclusion of Rick Schaff's article, "Vaccine Dangers". Make sure to check out the previous two installments to catch up: Vaccine Dangers - Part 1 and Vaccine Dangers - Part 2.
My Personal Thoughts
I grew up like most of us, believing that vaccines have saved the world from every dreaded disease since smallpox. However, as I dug deeper into naturopathic studies, holistic medicines, and alternative methods of healing, my mind opened to include other ways of thinking. As I learned about nutrition, the human body, and the immune system I began to realize that vaccines did not seem be the best options for optimum health in many situations. I’ll never forget the day I was studying graphs that tracked the rise and decline of many different diseases. In every one of them it showed diseases at their height and how they naturally began to decline as sanitary living conditions improved. All the graphs showed the same thing over and over; when vaccines were introduced during the history of a disease’s path, they had virtually no effect on the natural decline path of the disease. In fact, most graphs reflected a small spike in disease regeneration upon the vaccine introduction. What the graphs showed me was that vaccines have been given way more credit than they deserve throughout history. That information, coupled with the previous data I have shared was enough for me to re-think my position on all vaccinations and to examine more closely what specific vaccinations may be truly beneficial. I started asking myself questions like, “what’s so wrong with chicken pox or measles?” If a child has a strong immune system, it seems to me like these uncomfortable bouts of illness will only serve to help build up their immune systems naturally. The alternative is to try and vaccinate our kids against every known illness and inadvertently put them at a greater risk by overloading their systems with toxins. Jenny McCarthy brought up this exact point on Larry King Live and said, “I’ll take measles any day over autism.”
