The United States of America is often heralded as the “greatest country on Earth” by many hopeful immigrants and by a vast majority of her native sons and daughters. Indeed, the very establishment of this nation was built upon the idea of freedom of choice. It should come as no surprise that the idea of mandatory vaccination seems to be at odds with this very fundamental principles of what it is to be American. The fact that government may possibly try and exert their collective authority to force medical intervention upon our children is something that our founding fathers would likely roll over in their graves at the very idea of such a notion. Why is it then that in this, the most modern time in our nation’s history that the government and
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Let us not forget that disease such as diphtheria pertussis and tetanus are hardly ever seen medically anyway, so what is the case for vaccinating children against disease which is so rare in America to begin with? Any one person with a rational mind can see that multiplying list of vaccinations is just a scheme between pharmaceutical companies and corrupt politicians! Even “Dr. Marcia Angell, the former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine” realizes that big pharma just manufactures medications for profit rather than its intended purpose of discovering novel drugs and treatments, an opinion she makes clear in an article published in CQ Researcher by author Jane Lemons (Lemons, 2016 p. 175). “Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry [the pharmaceutical business] uses its wealth and power to co-opt every industry that might stand in its way” (Lemons, 2016 p. 176). Furthermore, even if one was pro-vaccination, the cost to keep one’s child current with all these unnecessary vaccinations is incredibly expensive, even with insurance with cost tipping the scales at over two-thousand dollars. If this is not enough to convince you of the true motivations of vaccination at least consider the fact that the cost of keeping up with vaccinations for a single child has increased “over 500% since 2000” alone according to the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (astho.org,
Let us not forget that disease such as diphtheria pertussis and tetanus are hardly ever seen medically anyway, so what is the case for vaccinating children against disease which is so rare in America to begin with? Any one person with a rational mind can see that multiplying list of vaccinations is just a scheme between pharmaceutical companies and corrupt politicians! Even “Dr. Marcia Angell, the former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine” realizes that big pharma just manufactures medications for profit rather than its intended purpose of discovering novel drugs and treatments, an opinion she makes clear in an article published in CQ Researcher by author Jane Lemons (Lemons, 2016 p. 175). “Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry [the pharmaceutical business] uses its wealth and power to co-opt every industry that might stand in its way” (Lemons, 2016 p. 176). Furthermore, even if one was pro-vaccination, the cost to keep one’s child current with all these unnecessary vaccinations is incredibly expensive, even with insurance with cost tipping the scales at over two-thousand dollars. If this is not enough to convince you of the true motivations of vaccination at least consider the fact that the cost of keeping up with vaccinations for a single child has increased “over 500% since 2000” alone according to the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (astho.org,