There are many terrific topics you can use if you want to start a discussion that rapidly deteriorates into an acrimonious exchange of insults. Reason goes out the window as the stock of knowledge possessed by those in the argument is exhausted. We’ve all been in these situations. Hopefully, the tensions die down and everyone leaves as friends. But not always.
The issue of vaccines, especially those administered to infants, is one of those hot-button topics. And for good reason. We are talking about the health of our children, and evidence that infant vaccines promote autism.
We are also calling into question the integrity of the medical community. If you want something to worry about, consider this: If you believe there are those medical professionals who are distorting the truth regarding vaccines, then what else have we been told that is wrong? These are life and death issues.
Add to that the power that big pharma has, and we have every right to be very concerned. And to demand investigations and answers.
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This was not an easy article for me to write, largely because I’m not convinced of the anti-vaccine argument. Part of that may be that at age 61 I’ve been jabbed so many times that it’s not much of an issue. I still get the annual flu vaccine per doctor’s orders, especially because I am a diabetic. And I’ll probably get the shingles vaccine in a year or so as I recall very well the misery my grandmother went through with that disease, some of the pain never left. I have no kids who might get autism, from vaccines or otherwise. That doesn’t mean I don’t care. I simply neither affirm nor deny the science behind the anti-vax movement. That there are corrupt government agencies acting against our interest in concert with corrupt businesses I accept as a given. It would be a shock if such were not the case given the money involved. Take the military-industrial complex that needs wars to keep the money flowing. I have friends who vaccinate their kids and others who refuse to do so — all in the same extended family. While it doesn’t mean anything beyond the story itself, the ones who do not vaccinate are kooks and the mother’s parents are even kookier. They are ready to believe every single conspiracy theory that comes along. All that said, I recognize that our audience would definitely fall into the “anti-vax” group, so I tried to write it from that angle. Regards, Craig