Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread
The first thing that strikes me about this warning is the fear of mercury poisoning. It's true that there are microgram doses of thiomersal, but that dose is far below the level known to be harmful. Governments (and presumably the WHO) set acceptable exposure levels below one percent of the lowest level at which harm has been seen or can be extrapolated. Moreover, the mercury in thiomeral is converted to ethymercury, which has a clearance half-life on 14 days. It might be longer in older people, but since it is via feces (and thus, the liver) renal problems won't be the reason.
The next thing that strikes me is that the article says "don't get the flu vaccine this year" but their arguments apply, however weakly, to all vaccines.
They argue that the vaccine isn't 100% effective. No vaccine is. All vaccinations rely on herd immunity. Even if you prefer the risk of the flu yourself, you're exposing other people to it ... and some of them may not be able to survive it.
They also argue from the number paid out in liability claims. Liability claims in the USA are notoriously unreliable--and the trial lawyers' lobby pays millions of dollars a year to keep it that way, and many more any time the words "tort reform" are named.
If one person in a million falls seriously ill after the vaccine, that does not mean the vaccine has a one-in-a-million risk. To find the actual risk, you must subtract from that one-in-a-million the risk of falling seriously ill without the vaccine, a risk that is surely at least one in a million. For true statistical accuracy you have to control for the likelihood that a person with a certain risk of illness will get the vaccine.
Oh, and the link of vaccines to autism was a fraud. Literal and exact fraud, and the authors of the one study have been prosecuted and found guilty. What's more they have admitted their guilt; their motive was to sell a vaccine without thiomersal.
