“Dissolving Illusions”A History of Vaccination.

I was totally pro vax, I got my kids vaccinated, no problem- In 2016,  just out of curiosity, started reading the literature on both sides to determine what was going on– What I found is that while the very principle of vaccination has been debated since its inception, the actually of the present vaccines and their contents- and their delivery schedule- which is one size fits all- is bothersome, and I started thinking this is interesting-we need to look at this. I was still pro vax.

I wondered:

1. Why isn’t there a big effort to develop alternate vaccination methods, without toxins or allergens? How about that guy who grows vaccines in mushrooms? Where is our ingenuity? Where are our problem solving skills? That is just a bad business practice.
2.  Why can’t we publicly rethink the whole vaccination process? Herd immunity is no longer working for mumps; in the recent outbreaks in PA, there was 97% vaccination compliance in the ones who got sick.
3. Where is the vaccine science that can give us lifelong immunity? I got all the childhood diseases between 1950 and 1959, including the Asian flu. I have lifelong immunity without getting repeated doses of mercury or aluminum in a vaccine shot.

I was pro vaccines, but see so many problems with them, that I wonder-

• Why not get creative since there is such an uproar?
• Those guys who hate them are potential customers and they are not satisfied.
• Vaccines are a big money maker for pediatric doctors; why not upgrade stuff about them all the time?

After I read the book “Dissolving Illusions” by S. Humphries, http://www.dissolvingillusions.com/graphs/ , I must tell you that the history of vaccination is very factual and has a lot of gov’t statistics in graphs. You don’t even have to read the book- you can get the whole story from the visuals.

The story:

Vaccination has been around since the 1600’s when infected smallpox  pus was scratched into the skin by several experimenters. There is a graph to show you how dangerous this was to the’ vaccinated’. Anti-vaxxers arose almost immediately and noticed that a lot of the “vaccinated” people got the disease anyway.

The Believers would not let go of the idea- which is actually homeopathic in philosophy. (A small amount of the toxin now, will inoculate you against the ill effects of the larger exposure to the disease later).

Pro-vaxers in the past have already used the government to enforce vaccinations and fine or imprison anti-vaxers.

Anti-vaxers demonstrated in many big cities that cleanliness and garbage and sewage removal did more to prevent infectious diseases than vaccines did. In fact hygiene had started a downward trend in every infectious disease many years before each vaccine went to the market. (Lots of charts showing this) Smallpox was already almost gone before its vaccine arrived. Same with measles, and every other disease, except polio, which turns out not to be the disease we always thought it was- there are so many sub-versions of infantile paralysis that did not have the polio virus in them…..

The text is dense with cited facts, but the charts tell the story in a way prose can’t.

I believe this book is a factual, non-emotional, history and science of vaccination.It is written by an MD who followed the party line until, the “Powers That Be”would not even flex a bit in giving vaccinations to the very ill old folks who went into hospitals when the doctor asked not to give them. How could a patient’s choice be taken away like that?

Politics, of course.

I hope Christian Scientists who leave the church to get medical help will not leave their brains at Patent Medicine’s door. Yes, all those medicines are either patented or out of patent. They are patent medicines. There is a lot to learn about the medical establishment before you accept its total authority. The practice of Medicine is not like it was before big insurance came in from the 50’s to the 70’s.

Buyer Beware.