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The Following Documents Were Submitted by Members of the Public Prior To, and at the October 1, 2019 Marathon County Board of Health Meeting The following documents were submitted by members of the public prior to, and at the October 1, 2019 Marathon County Board of Health meeting. 13 Reasons Why You Should Question Vaccines: #1. Untested with normal scientific methods. Vaccines are untested by scientific methods that are the accepted methods in all other areas of science. The studies have not been done against unvaccinated populations, but only testing results between people getting one vaccine and people getting another. Accepted scientific research is done with double blind studies comparing those who do use a drug and those who do not. #2. Studies Done by Those who Profit from Vaccines Vaccines are tested and studied by the corporations that stand to profit from the vaccines. The profits are going to be billions of dollars at this time. This is like having the fox guard the hen house holding his knife and fork. Testing has never been done outside of these corporations that has been considered when giving approval. So why should we trust it? #3. Conflict of Interest in Studies Done Those who do studies in corporations about specific ingredients whether it's pharmaceuticals or Monsanto or any other corporate giant, are given jobs in the alphabet agencies (CDC, FDA, EPA and USDA) and given the job to approve the very thing they did the study on. Can you spell conflict of interest? The last head of the FDA was an exec from Monsanto and the current head of the FDA is from the pharmaceutical companies. Julie Gerberding, the former head of the CDC when the fraud was committed about the MMR, left the CDC for a cushy job at Merck in the vaccine division. How safe does that make you feel about your food and your drugs and vaccines? There should be rules forbidding anyone from moving from a company to the alphabet agency or back again, ever, but at least for 10 years or some large number. The woman at Monsanto who did a study on the growth hormone given to cows rBgH, went to the FDA and got a job and is the one who approved it as safe. Where was the independent testing? None done and there is none done in the pharmaceutical and vaccine industry either. #4. No long term studies or studies on the vaccine schedule ever There has been no long term study done ever on vaccines and the ingredients in them, or the large number of vaccines given. It took 50 years and scientific advancements in DNA testing to know that the retroviruses in the Polio vaccine had changed the human genome and were causing havoc. #5. Foreign DNA and Cell Fragments in Vaccines There have been no studies done on the insertion of foreign DNA in vaccines. Monkey, pig, insect, dog, bird and human DNA are all ingredients. Dr Paul Offit, the darling of the vaccine industry owned a patent on Rotateq which is a vaccine for Rotavirus. He made a profit of $40 million dollars on its sale. A 2010 study published in Journal of Virology revealed that his multi-million dollar grossing patent on the Rotateq vaccine contains a live simian retrovirus (with a 96% match of certainty) that has likely infected millions of children over the past few years with a virus that causes great harm. Retrovirus infections are permanent, and can carry on indefinitely into future generations. In other words, once they are inserted into the human genome they cannot be removed. Foreign DNA is changing the human genome. Corporations are playing god for profit. This is definitely not ok. Here is Dr Teresa Deisher, a world renowned geneticist on the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4A- vEfaPKI&t=1432s What is Coming through the needle- Contamination in foreign DNA http://www.rense.com/general32/thrur.htm Deep Sequencing Reveals Viral Vaccine Contaminants http://www.virology.ws/2010/03/29/deep-sequencing-reveals-viral- vaccine-contaminants/ http://www.greenmedinfo.com/sites/default/files/pdf/ML- Hewitson_2014_Advances_in_Virology.pdf #6. Ingredients or Adjuvants The things in vaccines are deadly and there is lots of information on those adjuvants or in another word ingredients, online everywhere from published journals, to Wikipedia, to OSHA and a host of other places. Thank God this is the information age. Some possible adjuvants are: aluminum (considered a neurotoxin), formaldehyde (embalming fluid. Remember biology class and the jars on the shelf with little pigs and frogs being preserved?), Thimerosal (mercury and it has been removed from some vaccines but is still in the flu and HIB and in trace amounts in almost all vaccines), Polysorbate 80 (linked to sterility), Phenoxyethanol (apreservative used in the cosmetic industry), Glutaraldehyde (acleaning fluid used to clean oil and gas pipelines and hospital equipment), and the list goes on. Look up the ingredients on the CDC Website : http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/b/excipient-table- 2.pdf A Glimpse Into the World of Vaccine Adjuvants http://vaccinechoicecanada.com/vacc... #7. Vaccines are being pedaled to pregnant women. There have been NO studies done on fetal development and vaccines. The package inserts of all these vaccines say that specifically. In fact there are a few studies that show a rise of fetal deaths through spontaneous abortion: 16.7% with the DTaP, and in a 3 year period of the flu season, there was a 4000% rise due to vaccinations. We warn women to eat a clean diet and then want to inject them with neuro toxins and foreign DNA which crosses the placenta into their precious babies. Dr. Suzanne Humphries talks about what is wrong with the study about flu shots for pregnant women. http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2012/02/29/3013/ DTaP causes 16.7% miscarriage rate http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22727350 Fluvaccine and 4000% increase in miscarriage http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3888271/ #8 The vaccine companies cannot be sued for injuries or deaths. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 was passed by congress after the vaccine manufacturers: Merck, Wyeth, Lederle, and Connaught threatened to stop making vaccines altogether in the United States. So the law was passed that they can't be sued. Instead a Vaccine Injury Court was set up and a portion from each vaccine (which you pay for), goes to pay for payouts through that court for injuries and deaths. Only about 10% of injuries make it there. Until there is liability, like there is in every other drug on the market, then all the vaccines are suspect. The vaccine court has paid out over$3 billion in damages. It is also holding on to much money that should go to families. It is interesting to note that there are 290 or more new vaccines in the works, including those for acne, high blood pressure, cholesterol, cancer and more. Manufacturers are moving away from drugs and to vaccines because they cannot be sued. Imagine the long lines for the blood pressure vaccine and people start to realize they have developed an autoimmune disorder or asthma or GBS. Imagine when they find out there is no liability. No more bad drug ads. It's a win win for the Pharmaceutical companies and a bad thing for the rest of us. Childhood Injury Act of 1986 http://www.nvic.org/injury-compensa... #9. Doctors receive bonuses at the end of the year from the pharmaceutical companies for the number of patients they have who are vaccinated. This does not stop with bonuses. If a certain number are not vaccinated the insurance company can drop a doctor. A Pediatrician Lays Out the Dollars for you https://www.facebook.com/knowthevax... #10. Whistleblower at the CDC has come forward and given as many as 10,000 documents to congress from the CDC about the link that was suppressed between the MMR and autism.This is just the tip of the iceberg. The lead developer of Gardasil has come forward to say that the vaccine is unnecessary. How many more just haven't spoken out? Corruption, lying, deception being practiced all in the name of profit. The pro vaccine crowd and your doctor's office will say this is debunked, but 100,000 documents say otherwise. We Destroyed Documents Showing the MMR Caused Autism https://sharylattkisson.com/cdc-sci… Congressman Bill Posey addressing the congress- August 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGRjn_gIJw0 #11.The CDC owns the patents to vaccines. The CDC owns patents to Ebola, some Influenza strains, and who knows what else. They make a profit on the disease. If there is a pandemic they can make billions. Why should the government make a profit on sickness? That is just suspect and another reason not to trust what they are doing. CDC List of Patents Owned https://steemit.com/vaccines/@canadian-coconut/patents-that-cdc-owns-for-vaccines- conflict-of-interest-biased-towards-profit-and-not-public-health #12. Doctors and Nurses are not educated on what is in vaccine or reactions. It is apparent that most doctors and nurses giving vaccinations don't read the package inserts, don't study what is in the vaccines and really are not well read about them. They have not read the toxicology of the adjuvants in the vaccines (the extra stuff in them like chemicals and foreign DNA). They tell a pregnant women not to eat too much fish because of mercury, yet try to get her to take a flu shot which has mercury in it. Those we should be able to trust are not trustworthy. When parents call after their child receives a vaccine, because the child is having seizures or has other problems, they are told it's normal.
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