There have been 101 cases of measles that have been reported in 10 states since the beginning of 2019,1 hardly a public health emergency in a U.S. population of more than 320 million people where 94 percent of school children have received two doses of MMR vaccine and only two percent of children have a vaccine exemption for any reason.2 In what looks like a repeat of the “measles in Disneyland” media feeding frenzy that stampeded California state legislators into eliminating the personal belief vaccine exemption in 2015,3 4 the tiny minority of parents who have made a conscious choice not to give their children every one of the dozens of doses of federally recommended and state mandated vaccines are being once again relentlessly stereotyped, demonized and bullied.5 6 7 8
In what appears to be another well-orchestrated campaign to pressure state legislatures to remove all personal belief vaccine exemptions in the U.S. and further restrict already narrow medical exemptions to vaccination,9 10 11 12 13 forced vaccination proponents are whipping up irrational fear to justify attacking human rights, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience.14 15 16 17 18 It is a spectacle unworthy of a nation where human rights19 and civil liberties have been valued since the ratification of the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution in 178920 and the informed consent principle became the anchor for medical ethics after World War II.21 22 23
During this time of discrimination and oppression, the nonprofit educational charity, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), is back up in Times Square with NVIC’s “Vaccinations: Know the Risks and Failures” and “No Forced Vaccination” animated digital message. Displayed on a giant 56 foot by 29 foot electronic screen in the heart of New York City’s Times Square Plaza at 1500 Broadway (where the ball drops on New Year’s Eve), NVIC’s 10-second spot celebrating the human right to freedom of thought and conscience will be broadcast a minimum of three times per hour for 20 hours per day from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. through April 2019. More than one million people pass through Times Square daily. View the digital ad on NVIC’s referenced Vaccinations: Know the Risks and Failures page on NVIC’s website here.
During the past decade, NVIC has sponsored national vaccine education campaigns to encourage well-informed, voluntary vaccine decisionmaking. In 2011, NVIC sponsored a digital vaccine education billboard in New York City’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve24 and produced a flu prevention video for Delta Airline’s in-flight programming.25 In 2013, NVIC launched a national vaccine education billboard and ad campaign that featured billboards on highways and buses New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Illinois, Texas, Georgia and Colorado, Vermont and other states.26 In 2015 and 2016, NVIC’s message advocating for vaccine education and choice was up in Times Square, as well.27 28
Founded by parents of DPT vaccine injured children in 1982 to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public education, NVIC has steadfastly defended respect for the informed consent principle and its protection in vaccine policies and laws because vaccines are pharmaceutical products that carry a risk of injury or death. More than $4 billion has been paid by the government since 1988 to children and adults who have been harmed by FDA licensed and CDC recommended vaccines under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.29 Some people are biologically more susceptible to suffering vaccine reactions but doctors are unable to reliability predict who will be harmed before vaccination.30 This fact makes protection of personal belief vaccine exemptions even more important, as does the fact that Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court have shielded vaccine companies and vaccine administrators from liability for vaccine injuries and deaths.31 32
In a population of more than 320 million people, a few hundred cases of measles is not a public health emergency and should not be used to justify eliminating the legal right to exercise informed consent to vaccination, which is protected by the inclusion of flexible medical, religious and conscientious belief vaccine exemptions in public health laws.33
The human right to freedom of thought, speech, religious belief, conscience and informed consent will be preserved if Americans stand up for human rights that protect against tyranny. Only if we elect and support lawmakers who protect human rights will human rights be protected in government policy and law.
Whether it is in the states, on Capitol Hill or in Times Square, our mission continues: No forced vaccination. Not in America.
References:
1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Measles Cases in 2019. Feb. 1, 2019.
2 CDC. Vaccination Coverage for Selected Vaccines and Exemption Rates Among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2017–18 School Year. MMWR Oct. 12, 2018; 67(4)): 1115-1122.
3 Fisher BL. The Vaccine Culture War in America: Are You Ready? National Vaccine Information Center Mar. 8, 2015.
4 Richardson D. Fallout from California SB277: What Happens Next? NVIC Newsletter Aug. 5, 2015.
5 Editorial Board. How to Inoculate Against Anti-Vaxxers. New York Times Jan. 11, 2019.
6 Cohen E, Bonifield J. Some states allow parents to get out of vaccinations. Then this happens. CNN Jan. 29, 2019.
7 Keneally M. Parents who don’t vaccinate kids tend to be affluent, better educated, experts say. ABC News Jan. 29, 2019.
8 Cáceres M. Media Takes Low Road by Pitting Children Against Their Parents To Promote Vaccines. The Vaccine Reaction Feb. 13, 2019.
9 National Vaccine Information Center. NVIC Advocacy Portal: 2019 State Legislative Session Vaccine-Related Bills.
10 CBS. Hundreds rally to preserve right not to vaccinate children amid measles outbreak. Feb. 8, 2019.
11 Douglass J. Oregon lawmaker wants to end non-medical exemptions to school vaccine requirements. KATU2 Feb. 11, 2019.
12 MacReady N. Questionable Medical Exemptions for Vaccines Up After New Law in California. Emedicine health Oct. 29, 2018.
13 CDC. Recommendations and Guidelines of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP): Contraindications and Precautions. Table 4-2. Conditions incorrectly perceived as contraindications or precautions to vaccination (i.e., vaccines may be given under these conditions). Jan. 10, 2019.
14 Fisher BL. The New Internet Police Protecting You From Freedom of Thought and Speech. NVIC Newsletter Dec. 3, 2018.
15 Ad Age. Google, Facebook Queried on Anti-Vaccine Information by Democrat. Feb. 14, 2019.
16 Najera RF. Measles Epidemic Continues and Grows in Washington State, New Cases in Houston, Texas. History of Vaccines Feb. 6, 2019.
17 Newsday. End the religious exemption for vaccines in New York. Editorial Feb 8, 2019.
18 Fisher BL. Forced Vaccination: The Tragic Legacy of Jacobson v. Massachusetts. National Vaccine Information Center Nov. 2, 2016.
19 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. United Nations General Assembly Dec. 10, 1948.
20 National Archives. America’s Founding Documents: The Bill of Rights.
21 Annas GJ, Grodin MA. The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code. Oxford University Press 1992.
22 U.S. Library of Medicine. Informed Consent – Adults. Medline Plus Jan. 28, 2019.
23 Fisher BL. Why Is Informed Consent to Vaccination a Human Right? National Vaccine Information Center June 28, 2017.
24 National Vaccine Information Center. NVIC Educates One Million Plus in Times Square on New Year’s Eve. NVIC Newsletter Dec. 26, 2011.
25 National Vaccine Information Center. Flu Prevention Video. November 2011.
26 National Vaccine Information Center. NVIC Launches National “Know the Risks” Billboard Vaccine Education Campaign. Mar. 12, 2013.
27 National Vaccine Information Center. NVIC’s “No Forced Vaccination” Message in Times Square, Philadelphia and New Jersey. Apr. 13, 2015.
28 National Vaccine Information Center. NVIC Back in Times Square for Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Dec. 17, 2015.
29 DHHS. National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: Vaccine Injury Compensation Data. Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) Feb. 1, 2019.
30 Institute of Medicine Committee to Review Adverse Effects of Vaccines. Evaluation of Biologic Mechanisms of Adverse Effects: Increased Susceptibility. Chapter 3 (p. 82). Washington, D.C. The National Academies Press 2012.
31 NVIC. National Vaccine Information Center Cites “Betrayal” of Consumers by U.S. Supreme Court Giving Total Liability Shield to Big Pharma. NVIC Press Release Feb. 23, 2011.
32 National Vaccine Information Center. NVIC Position Statement on National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. May 2018.
33 Fisher BL. Guide to Reforming Vaccine Policy and Law. National Vaccine Information Center 2014, Revised 2017.
47 Responses
KUDOS to you! People should know their rights, give informed consent and KNOW exactly what is in these vaccines and the consequences from these vaccines before sticking theirs or their kids arms out for them.
This is great!
More staged cases yo whip up a frenzy like gun grabbing laws. Hold the rabid Nazi Hyenas back or every parent will have to descend on DC.
This is such a huge issue for my family that we are ready and willing to forego a pension and move to another state over it. It is difficult to believe that in an age where I have the right to “choose my child’s gender” (harm to another) or abort my term baby (murder of another) that I may no longer have the right to refuse harmful chemicals injected into my child’s body for the sake of “another” (harm to my child is fine in this case).
Read the package inserts and learn more about the immune system before you decide to use your voice to encourage forcible vaccine mandates over CHILDHOOD DISEASES that many of us have already had. Would you have others force you next? Where will the line be drawn? Shame on you. This country was founded on INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY not collectivist “public good.” I should not be forced out of my state after you erode its laws, YOU should leave now.
-RN
Keep up the good work of keeping people informed throughout the whole world. I am a concerned grandmother from the UK.
Amen
The truth can’t come out in the open quick enough! …. absolute disgrace that all the Governments world wide know the real truth and risks these toxic life damaging vaccines do to people and our kids everywhere… how dare ‘THEY’ think they have the right to do as they want,regardless of the consequences for the disgusting evil dollar….how dare they make these mandatory……and ruin lives and families …..”gobsmacking!”
WOW!!! WOW!!! WOWEE!!!!!
I am deeply appreciative of your contribution to the fight for our freedom to make vaccine choices. As Chairman of the Board of Michigan for Vaccine Choice, I know I speak for all Michigan Citizens who share your mission.
Thank You
Informed consent is the right of every human being on this planet. Thank you for reminding people that evidence-based information and critical thinking should be the clarion call of any enlightened society!
It’ll be condemned as “anti-vaccine.” Count on it.
Very well written, factual, true and non-hysteric. I had the Measles, all my friends and relatives safely had the measles, and my 4 children safely had the Measles with hygienic and professional supervision. There is more to the purpose of illness and fever than meets the eye.Thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I try diligently to educate via FB and comments to my friends. We cannot ever stop!!
Lets please continue to pray so that this good that is being spread will continue.
Get involved. Know what laws are happening in your state. Make your voices heard. Call all of your state legislators. NOW, before it;s too late.
Debbie Ann McAlister,
How did you get your children to have “the Measles with hygienic and professional supervision”??
Do you mean that somehow they got the virus and were supervised by a medical doctor?
AGAIN.. BULLYING by our government. Where is the FREE choice in our FREE(?) Country?
Mandating vaccines only tell me they are not safe. IF they were would you choose to subject ourselves. When BIG PHARMS are making BILLIONS and we are FORCED it certainly makes me wonder why I must be MANDATED immunizations. Let’s get back to reality … not every germ is a bad germ. Not every vaccine is a good one.
They are trying to pass an abortion law allowing a parent upon birth to decide if a newborn will be terminated or not. To me pure murder. So why shouldn’t a parent that has given life to their child have the RIGHT to decide if their child should receive vaccines? Obviously by giving them life they are looking out for the child’s well being. More & more info continues to come out about the dangers of vaccines and let’s not forget how many they now want a child to receive. Ludicrous, it’s just that the Big Pharma would lose out on a lot of money. Many parents believe in vaccines and that’s fine, HOWEVER, there are many that DO NOT and they should have the right to refuse. After all We are still in America aren’t we??
You guys are amazing. Thank you for your hard work. We support you, and will keep donating financially. We have 3 healthy vibrant children whom I was able to protect due to my own personal knowledge and experience w mercury toxicity as a young woman. Thank you thank you ??
Wonderful! No sense in Natzis taking our rights away!
Your work is so heartening! Thank you! As a mother who chose not to vaccinate my 3 children back in the early 80’s I have been long concerned for and committed to the freedom for all parents to protect their children against forced vaccination. Now I have a grandson whose parents also have chosen to raise their child free from vaccines. I am greatly encouraged this movement is quickly gaining momentum and strength! Thank God.
Melanie I also chose not to vaccinate my three sweet baby boys in the early eighties long before the age of google and the internet.By the grace of God and common sense and seeing the babies I vaccinated become deathly ill something was not right A trip to the library opened my eyes to DPT A Shot in the Dark and our lives were changed forever.I don’t have any grandchildren but I pray they are not vaccinated.My boys thank me for not vaccinating them as I am sure your family appreciates your stand for them.
Thank you for all of your work to keep our right to choose what is right for the health of our children.
Maybe the focus should be on educating people that the pharmaceutical companies do not have any financial responsibility what so ever if their vaccine hurts or kills you…most people have no idea that they have NO incentive whatsoever to make at the very least a safe vaccine…
Like a previous comment above, its mind boggling that in this world of “choice” we can’t choose to not inject harm into our children’s or eventually our bodies.
That more than anything says what we truly are to the rulers of our countries – slaves. Slaves do not have the right to refuse and must do what the master says.
That is more the truth than the illusion that we are free.
If people don’t want to immunize their children or themselves, that is their right. However, they should not be allowed to attend schools, daycares, public functions where their actions could spread very contagious disease to people who if they caught the disease could put their health at risk. Families whose children had measles, pertussis, varicella, bacterial meningitis, epiglottis or any of the diseases vaccines prevent and came out unscathed are lucky. How would they feel if their kids didn’t?
If you trust vaccines, then why are you so scared of being around diseases that you have been vaccinated against?
What you say is completely false. It is unconstitutional to prevent a child from getting an education because they have not been vaccinated. There is absolutely NO proof that vaccines are safe and that vaccination is effective. IN FACT it’s just the opposite. Science had now proven that people who get the flu shot are three times more likely to get a flu like virus for two years post shot AND people who get the shot SHED the virus for up to three weeks afterward. In other words getting the flu shot SPREADS the flu. FACT. These shots are pure poison and no one should be mandated to get them. People have DIED from them and autism is spreading like wildfire due to these neurotoxic injections. PROVEN FACT.
Dear PCP Vaccines do not prevent diseases, they spread them. Are you aware of all the damaging injuries and deaths directly due to vaccines? Most of those diseases are not remotely deadly, if handled with commonsense healthcare. In fact, it’s better to get the disease naturally, heal and have real lifelong true immunity, plus protection from other diseases. The vaccinated spread the diseases! They are the dangerous spreaders of diseases and need to be quarantined. If vaccines work so well, how can the unvaccinated be a supposed risk? Obviously vaccines do NOT work! There are more injuries and deaths directly due to the vaccines than any of the diseases they purport to protect against. We are a masterfully manipulated society, fan the frenzy of IGNORANT fear, then control. There have been over $4 billion paid out in injuries and deaths directly due to vaccines. From January of this year, only six weeks, $73 million have been paid out on injuries and deaths directly due to vaccines. Keep in mind that only 1%, I repeat 1%, make it to the vaccine court. That means there are millions of others damaged. The pharmaceutical companies lobbied our government not to hold the pharmaceutical companies liable for injuries and deaths to do vaccines. Who pays? We the taxpayers, who because of fascist not free, mandatory vaccine laws, cannot refuse the toxic, damaging jabs.. There have been three immune compromised people since 2000 that died from measles., in a country of 350 million! There have been over 400 killed by the vaccine. Any intelligence left in America? It’s all about money honey, population, mind control, perhaps even chips. What a naïve society we are. Just can’t fix stupid. Unfortunately the blind followers will wait until an injury or death strikes them, before they get a clue and start researching. By then it’s too late. Sad that people cannot figure it out. http://www.learntherisk.org, http://www.nvic.org,
Mind Control says ‘You Must Get Your Shot’ and of course the zombies rush to obey – Madness
Spend time taking care and growing your natural immunity and if you have kids – NO SHOTS til age one, and NO BS HEP B Shot at birth! Grow that awesome immune system til a minimum age one and then just 1 shot at a time with the least amount of preservatives
To PCP’s comment above – if my unvaccinated child attends the same school that your vaccinated child attends, and my child contracts a disease for which your child has been vaccinated against, why are you afraid for your child? Are you implying your child’s vaccination is not effective against the disease?
BRAVO NVIC! Vaccination is an assault with a deadly weapon and a crime against humanity. ALL vaccines destroy innate immunity while causing inflammatory reactions within the body. Aside from autoimmune disorders, shock, and allergic reactions some people have died after receiving them. Some ingredients are carcinogenic. They should be outlawed.
Bravo, NVIC! Our medical system has gone very sadly astray in so many ways, and you are one of the few beacons of light. Shine on.
There is no evidence that the vaccines protect against these diseases. In fact look at all the immunized children who are still getting measles after getting the vaccine. That is vaccine failure. Also, I have had measles and I am fine. There are many scare tactics going on here. If your children get the vaccine then why would anyone be concerned about being around unvaxed children? The whole idea of the vaccine is to provide immunity so that should protect them from children who don’t even have the disease. This is madness.
Cindy: The fallback argument that vaxxers always use in this case is “protecting those that cannot get vaccinated”. This has also been debunked repeatedly. Why? Because vaccine-induced (artificial) immunity does not provide lifelong protection. Its the reason you have boosters. Most adults DO NOT get boosters. MMR is just one example. Therefore, by definition most adults are walking around Unvaccinated.
Add to the fact that today’s CDC vaccine schedule contains 150% more required vaccines than existed some 30,40,50 years ago and *NO* adults are required to follow it (yet). It then begs the question of why they are so laser focused on *kids* being unvaccinated!
If a parent ever tells me that my kids are not allowed to play with their kids because of their vaccination status, I’ll remind them that THEY are not vaccinated.
YAY NVIC!!!
PCP, get educated by studying this site before sharing your uneducated comments.
God bless you, Miss Fisher, for all you do. I hope you don’t mind that I plagiarized part of this article to write to my legislators regarding house bill 1638. I live in Washington state.
Write and call often and plagiarize away…. register with http://www.NVICADVOCACY.org to receive alerts for bills in your state with talking points and contact information. We must all think globally but act locally! It’s your health. Your family. Your choice.
Please keep up the work of keeping people informed!! Mainstream media is failing us. News like yours is the only way to make sure the unbiased truth is heard!!
PCP, epiglottis? That is a little flap of skin at the back of your throat, NOT a vaccine preventable disease. Your spew about essentially limiting the mobility of people not vaccinated to your (or the CDC’s) standards is not credible, given that NOT ONE PERSON IN THE UNITED STATES, OR THE ENTIRE WORLD, HAS BEEN VACCINATED AGAINST EPIGLOTTIS. Put a cork in it until you actually understand what you are writing about.
PCP ??? if my kid has a cookie, then my kid can give u a cookie… If my kid DOES NOT HAVE A COOKIE, THEN MY KID CAn NOT GIVE U A COOKIE!!! same goes for a disease!!!
matter of fact vaccine shedding should be when children should not be able to be in the public shedding the disease!!!???
Dear PCP Vaccines do not prevent diseases, they spread them. Are you aware of all the damaging injuries and deaths directly due to vaccines? Most of those diseases are not remotely deadly, if handled with commonsense healthcare. In fact, it’s better to get the disease naturally, heal and have real lifelong true immunity, plus protection from other diseases. The vaccinated spread the diseases! They are the dangerous spreaders of diseases and need to be quarantined. If vaccines work so well, how can the unvaccinated be a supposed risk? Obviously vaccines do NOT work! There are more injuries and deaths directly due to the vaccines than any of the diseases they purport to protect against. We are a masterfully manipulated society, fan the frenzy of IGNORANT fear, then control. There have been over $4 billion paid out in injuries and deaths directly due to vaccines. From January of this year, only six weeks, $73 million have been paid out on injuries and deaths directly due to vaccines. Keep in mind that only 1%, I repeat 1%, make it to the vaccine court. That means there are millions of others damaged. The pharmaceutical companies lobbied our government not to hold the pharmaceutical companies liable for injuries and deaths to do vaccines. Who pays? We the taxpayers, who because of fascist not free, mandatory vaccine laws, cannot refuse the toxic, damaging jabs.. There have been three immune compromised people since 2000 that died from measles., in a country of 350 million! There have been over 400 killed by the vaccine. Any intelligence left in America? It’s all about money honey, population, mind control, perhaps even chips. What a naïve society we are. Just can’t fix stupid. Unfortunately the blind followers will wait until an injury or death strikes them, before they get a clue and start researching. By then it’s too late. Sad that people cannot figure it out. http://www.learntherisk.org, http://www.nvic.org,
I am truly scared for myself and my children. The hate and evil that has come out against us ‘pro-education’ and ‘pro-vaccine safety’ types is really disheartening. We live in the very area that has received the most media attention. I shouldn’t have to listen to people say they wish we would die so that they can be safe…i.e., if us non-vaxxers don’t get the MMR vaccine, then we’ll contract measles and die and they’ll be truly safe from harm. What has this country come to? This is how we love and care for others?
Far greater numbers ill and one death but not big news like the measles is.
https://patch.com/california/castrovalley/s/gml7q/deadly-salmonella-outbreak-continues-to-spread
It’s unbelievable that we have to worry about our freedoms being stripped in AMERICA. We elect representatives to represent us, but instead they go to Washington DC to represent Big Pharma and sneak behind to figure out ways to justify taking our freedoms away. Why the hell do we even have elections if they have no intention of protecting our freedoms? What are people worried about who choose to vaccinate? They are protected (so they think) My son-in-law didn’t get the measles until he was vaccinated. Some protection there. Take your vaccines – that’s your freedom to decide. Leave the rest of us the hell alone.
Thank you for all you do. Vaccines should never be forced upon anyone. Flu shots are are getting out of control in are public health. No one should ever be forced to get a flu shot or wear a mask as the alternative for months at a time! I feel like we are living very close to a Hitler society, with our rights hanging by a thread. Soon people will be forced into exercise and dieting, which seems rediculous, but that is what I think of mandatory vaccination. Keep up the great work of fighting for our freedoms.
If the government wants people to trust vaccines they must overturn the law that protects drug companies from being sued for the harm these vaccines cause. The CDC, FDA and many other government agencies are in bed with big Pharma and are getting huge payouts. That is a conflict of interest when it comes to the will of the people and the people’s rights. More people need to stand up for their rights. Forced vaccinations should be unconstitutional. The United States could become like communist countries that force their people to do things against their will. This is just the beginning. Our children are forced to take ridiculous amounts of vaccines. Unneeded vaccines. These one size fits all forced vaccines are lining the pockets of big Pharma at the detriment to our children’s health.