{"id":193077,"date":"2019-08-12T07:11:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T07:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193077"},"modified":"2019-08-14T05:50:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T05:50:17","slug":"i-avoid-giving-parenting-advice-except-on-infant-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193077","title":{"rendered":"I avoid giving parenting advice \u2013 except on infant vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction \u2013 Aug 11, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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We post the following because it demonstrates how, despite claims to \u2018even-handedness’ and \u2018journalistic impartiality\u2019, the mainstream media is being used to propagate the establishment\u2019s narrative. In effect our supposedly \u201cfree press\u201d has become a propaganda mouthpiece, staffed in the main by artful liars.<\/h5>\n
Of course, this has become increasingly apparent since 9\/11 and the media campaign to convince the public of the existence of Saddam Hussein\u2019s mythical Weapons of Mass Destruction.<\/h5>\n
Contrary to what may have been intended however, this has contributed to mounting public scepticism toward the media. Nor is this scepticism confined to a single-issue. Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth<\/span><\/a>, the anti-GM campaign and the growing anti-vaccination movement<\/a> <\/span>are part of this.<\/h5>\n
So on the one hand the following warns us about the \u201csurging number of measles cases to countries where populist parties have become prominent\u201d, while on the other hand we are told about the \u201cfeelgood message\u201d in infant vaccines.<\/h5>\n
Seriously. You might think that S\u00e9amas O\u2019Reilly was trying to be humorous when he writes:<\/h5>\n
\u201cEven if you don\u2019t share my fondness for the actual injections, I hope I can spread my enthusiasm for vaccines.\u201d<\/h5>\n
But it all becomes clear by the fourth paragraph where he continues:<\/h5>\n
\u201cOtherwise reasonable parents, people who balk at flat earthers or 9\/11 truthers, have somehow bought into scare stories about vaccines\u2019 harmful metal content or links to disease.\u201d<\/h5>\n
So O\u2019Reilly is suggesting those who question vaccines or what really happened on 9\/11 are on par with those who believe the earth is flat. Which is another way of saying that they are stupid and gullible.<\/h5>\n
To which we can only add that it\u2019s now all too evident that most mainstream media \u201cjournalists\u201d are no more than intellectual whores doing the bidding of moneyed media owners and S\u00e9amas O\u2019Reilly is among them. Ed.<\/h5>\n

I avoid giving parenting advice \u2013 except on infant vaccines<\/h2>\n

S\u00e9amas O\u2019Reilly \u2013 The Guardian Aug 11, 2019<\/h3>\n

This week my son had his MMR vaccine, stressing us all. No one likes injections. Except me. I\u2019ve always enjoyed them. I think it\u2019s from watching Ivan Drago in Rocky IV<\/em> when I was small, which made me think of them as power-ups. Each childhood needle-sting thrilled me a little. It was like I felt some ominous Soviet liquid coursing through my veins, allowing me to dish out, and eventually receive, a beating so hard it ended communism. I thought everyone felt this way at first but quickly learned that of the millions of people who watched that movie, I alone took home a feelgood message about needles, and how sweet it must feel to receive a Cold War dose of performance-enhancing drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even if you don\u2019t share my fondness for the actual injections, I hope I can spread my enthusiasm for vaccines. I\u2019ve been writing this column for a year, and have never proscribed any practice. There are a million other organs willing to make you feel bad about your parenting choices. But vaccines aren\u2019t one of those choices, and I refuse to be anything but strident.<\/span><\/p>\n

The UK ranks third in high-income countries for the number of children unvaccinated for measles, and global rates of that disease \u2013 vaccined against since before Teletext was invented \u2013 have doubled since 2017. For its part, the government could do more to spread awareness of their efficacy and, with the NHS, make it easier for parents to book return appointments. But from my experience it\u2019s also true that parents are subject to worrying levels of anti-vax propaganda spread by charlatans and frauds. It is not hyperbole to say this is killing children.<\/span><\/p>\n

Otherwise reasonable parents, people who balk at flat earthers or 9\/11 truthers, have somehow bought into scare stories about vaccines\u2019 harmful metal content or links to disease. Never mind that we harmlessly <\/strong><\/span><\/a>consume<\/a><\/strong><\/span> much more than a vaccine\u2019s worth of aluminium every single day, or that no reputable study has demonstrated a link to autoimmune disorders, nor autism. As UK citizens, they\u2019re also probably vaccinated themselves, meaning they\u2019re denying their child the same inoculation they enjoy. It is this same inoculation that will leave those parents healthy to grieve over their child should a measles outbreak come his or her way.<\/span><\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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