Thursday, April 30, 2020

Robert Rowen, MD

Dr. Robert Rowen, MD (MD from U. of Cal, San Francisco): "See, vaccines give you plastic immunity. They build up only one line of your immune system, the antibody system, and put the main immune system (cellular immunity) to sleep. You need both for fully developed immunity." "Clearly measles vaccine doesn’t work as advertised. In fact, in our own country, outbreak after outbreak has occurred in what has been called a fully vaccinated population. (See: A measles outbreak at a college with a prematriculation immunization requirement. Am J Public Health. 1991 Mar ;81(3):360-4. PMID:1994745.)"

"I don’t agree with the forced vaccine program. Herd immunity is now shown to be a failure. Plastic vaccine immunity wanes with time, rendering possibly a whole generation of vaccine-abused people vulnerable to diseases their bodies might have difficulty handling as adults, while deranging their immune systems for life. Please look to vaccine failure BEFORE condemning moms who rightfully don’t want to place their precious children in harm’s way with Pharma’s now discredited potions."

"If vaccines were the cat’s meow, why would the American government have granted vaccine makers total immunity from liability if the vaccine harms your child or you?"
https://vaccineimpact.com/2015/dr-rowen-measles-spread-by-those-vaccinated/ Dr. Rowen is a graduate of the University of California at San Francisco, which the US News ranks as the 2nd best medical school in the world for immunology. he is also Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University.

https://drrowendrsu.com/our-staff/robert-rowen-md/
https://www.youtube.com/user/RobertRowenMD

Clean books for Satmar schools

The [Satmar] Rebbe was an eminently practical person. But there were principles on which he would not compromise. He had rules for this school. The first rule was about censorship: every year it was, and still is, a whole operation to carefully censor the books. It's hard to imagine the sheer size of the operation -- censoring books for thousand of students. It took weeks to do! Especially when new books came in.

The Rebbe had basic principles concerning what was unacceptable: 

Outright apikorsus.
Any kind of Divrei cheshek
Anything to do with radio or television
Anything that could have a negative influence -- including going to libraries and reading outside materials.

Interestingly enough, if a book had a picture of an X-mas tree, or if a story mentioned children going to church...those things weren't cut out. That wasn't a major issue to the Rebbe. He said it's enough just to put an X through those sections.

He told me, "One thing I'm sure of -- I'm not afraid our girls will, chas v'shalom, shmad themselves. Today, Artscroll and other publishers have begun producing customized readers for yeshivos, but even that is limited. It's the economies of scale. A company selling a few million books can afford to charge less. Those frum text books are expensive, and not every school can afford them. And even those books may not be acceptable by Bais Rochel standards. So just image how it was forty-five to fifty years ago, when there were no Jewish options. 

The Rebbe was very concerned about the whole issue of the books. He recognized that society had changed. Even the general population was more proper a decade or so earlier. The books published back then were not so corrupt. So the Rebbe came up with a plan. He sent me along with the rosh yeshiva, R' Nosson Yosef Meisels (close advisor the Rebbe who later was appointed Satmar Rav of London), to Colombia University Teacher's college to see if we could find some old textbooks that didn't need so much censoring. The pictures would be more modest in the older books.

We did succeed in finding some books that were more kosher. But we had a different problem: the books were out of print, and buying the rights to reprint them on our own was too expensive a proposition.

But the point isn't whether or not the plan succeed. The key point is just how practical a vision the Rebbe had. 

The Satmar Rebbe and the English Principal, Rabbi Hertz Frankel, pp. 46-47

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

It was not the land

It was not the land that Moses had been commanded to proclaim to his people at the outset of his mission as מורשה, as the inheritance they were to preserve (Ex. 6,8). The Law, to be translated into full reality upon that soil, was to be the true מורשה, the one true, everlasting inheritance, the one true center around which the nation and its leaders were to gather as one united community. Herein lay the goal and the destiny, the character and the significance of the people.

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch "The Kehillah," Collected Writings, Vol. VI, p. 62

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Another mother

Another mother who watched her children deteriorate after vaccination.

Watch

Wisdom of the Satmar Rebbe

Excerpt:

And something many people don't understand about the Rebbe -- if to some people he seemed extreme, he was also very practical. He had an unerring vision. He told me he wanted the girl's division to be of good quality, so a balabatisher Yid could send his daughter to our school. The school wasn't one for extremists.

Why did he say "a balabatisher Yid"? Because, the Rebbe told me, "if the girls in the home will go to Bais Rochel, then the boys will also remain in Satmar schools. But if the girls go to other schools, eventually the boys also won't stay in Satmar."

The Rebbe doesn't need me to prove he was right. But I saw it firsthand. In Crown Heights, there was a whole group who sent their boys to the Satmar Talmud Torah. "Their daughters went to other schools. In the end, all the boys endued up in other yeshiovs -- not in Satmar!

Don't get me wrong. They went to other fine yeshivos. But we're talking about building up a community now. And 90 percent of the boys whose sisters did not go to Satmar schools did not continue in Satmar yeshivos. The whole household veered away from the community.

The Rebbe was absolutely right. He wanted a school where a balabitisher person could send his daughter and not say; "My wife doesn't let me send my daughter to Bais Rochel. It's too farchnyukt." 

"The Satmar Rebbe and His English Principal," Rabbi Hertz Frankel, p. 45

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The trend today, particularly in Israeli society is for schools to have extreme entrance standards, even schools for small children. It's like getting admitted to Yale law school. Parents beg sometimes for years to get into schools, which sometimes send spies around town to catch families doing something not approved of. One administator told me openly that he makes parents call dozens of times over months or years in order to be sure they really want to go to his precious school. The game is very unhealthy for the kids who develop a superficial frumkite. So here we see that Satmar, the pinnacle of frum standards, didn't work it that way at all. 

Addressing Parents’ Concerns: Do Vaccines Cause Allergic or Autoimmune Diseases?

Addressing Parents’ Concerns: Do Vaccines Cause Allergic or Autoimmune Diseases?

Paul A. Offit and Charles J. Hackett


Excerpt:

Abstract

Anecdotal case reports and uncontrolled observational studies in the medical literature claim that vaccines cause chronic diseases such as asthma, multiple sclerosis, chronic arthritis, and diabetes. Several biological mechanisms have been proposed to explain how vaccines might cause allergic or autoimmune diseases. For example, allergic diseases might be caused by prevention of early childhood infections (the “hygiene hypothesis”), causing a prolongation of immunoglobulin E-promoting T-helper cell type 2-type responses. However, vaccines do not prevent most common childhood infections, and large well-controlled epidemiologic studies do not support the hypothesis that vaccines cause allergies. Autoimmune diseases might occur after immunization because proteins on microbial pathogens are similar to human proteins (“molecular mimicry”) and could induce immune responses that damage human cells. However, wild-type viruses and bacteria are much better adapted to growth in humans than vaccines and much more likely to stimulate potentially damaging self-reactive lymphocytes. Consistent with critical differences between natural infection and immunization, well-controlled epidemiologic studies do not support the hypothesis that vaccines cause autoimmunity.
Flaws in proposed biological mechanisms that explain how vaccines might cause chronic diseases are consistent with the findings of many well-controlled large epidemiologic studies that fail to show a causal relationship. 
Anecdotal reports and uncontrolled observational studies in the medical literature118 and stories in the news media and on the Internet allege that vaccines cause chronic diseases such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes, chronic arthritis, hay fever, and asthma. Because of these reports, some parents have chosen to delay or withhold vaccines for their children. In response to concerns by parents and health care professionals, the Institute of Medicine recently reviewed studies examining the relationship between multiple immunizations and immunologic dysfunction.19
We will discuss the pathogenesis of allergies, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, and chronic arthritis and the plausibility of biological mechanisms that explain how vaccines might cause these diseases. In addition, we will review well-controlled epidemiologic studies that investigate the relationship between vaccines and chronic diseases.




Monday, April 27, 2020

HPV vaccination

I said “Wait a minute!”, and yes, we found out that everything that happened to our son was aligned to the first and second HPV vaccination!!!

https://hpv-vaccine-side-effects.com/the-hpv-vaccination-can-cause-very-serious-side-effects-2/

Sunday, April 26, 2020

Berlin before and after

Two incredible videos here.

Berlin in 1936 confident and bustling:

Berlin 1936 (in color, OV with english subtitles)

(warning there is some immodesty around 7:00)


In ruins after the war:

Berlin in July 1945 (HD 1080p color footage)


There are many lessons here such as never be in love with your success, never see yourself as invincible. Plus there is severe justice to those who try to destroy the Jewish people. 

Saturday, April 25, 2020

Vaccines can kill

How do I know that? What crazy, anti-science anti-vax person who will not listen to reason told me that? 

GlaxoSmithKline says it. It is the manufacturer of the vaccine. On the insert that comes with the vaccine, the following warning appears:


"Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has occurred in infants following administration of DTaP vaccine. By chance alone, some cases of SIDS can be expected to follow receipt of PEDIACEL." 




Moreover, they tell us elsewhere:

Who should NOT take this medication?

Your child should not receive this medication if they:
  • are allergic to diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, poliovirus, or Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccines, or any ingredients of this medication
  • are allergic to neomycin, or polymyxin
  • have previously had encephalopathy (abnormal brain function) within 7 days of receiving a pertussis-containing vaccine
https://chealth.canoe.com/drug/getdrug/pediacel


Friday, April 24, 2020

Never force. Only through darchei noam - yeshiva world news

https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/1852201/watch-harav-gershon-edelstein-bochurim-are-sleeping-in-never-force-never-criticize.html

Hagaon Harav Gershon Edelstein answered a chinuch question recently that is on the minds of many parents with teenagers at home during the current coronavirus era.
A parent asked. “There are children in the house above the age of 12 who aren’t keeping to a schedule because they’re in the house all the time. They’re going to sleep late and waking up late in the morning. How much should one be makpid with them on zeman tefillah and Kriyas Shema?”
Harav Edelstein answered: “Never force. Only through darchei noam.”
The parent clarified: “To nudge them with darchei noam?”
The Rav answered firmly: “No, no, no -never nudge – only darchei noam. The child knows what’s good for him. You should encourage him so he’ll have cheishek [to daven on time]. Force doesn’t have any influence at all. It causes an opposite effect. It’s assur to force a child – only through friendly means, with love.”
“In general, a child does what his father does,” Harav Edelstein emphasized. “It’s the nature of imitation. But if you force him, you’ll have the opposite effect. Only through darchei noam. He shouldn’t feel at all that he’s being criticized.”
“A child feels the criticism and it hurts him very much. It causes the child to throw off responsibility. The child should never feel criticized – this is an important rule in chinuch.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

To:  Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, House Energy and Commerce Committee

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

Re: Statement federal vaccine mandates

Feb. 26, 2019

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) strongly opposes federal interference in medical decisions, including mandated vaccines. After being fully informed of the risks and benefits of a medical procedure, patients have the right to reject or accept that procedure. The regulation of medical practice is a state function, not a federal one. Governmental preemption of patients’ or parents’ decisions about accepting drugs or other medical interventions is a serious intrusion into individual liberty, autonomy, and parental decisions about child-rearing.

A public health threat is the rationale for the policy on mandatory vaccines. But how much of a threat is required to justify forcing people to accept government-imposed risks? Regulators may intervene to protect the public against a one-in-one million risk of a threat such as cancer from an involuntary exposure to a toxin, or-one-in 100,000 risk from a voluntary (e.g. occupational) exposure. What is the risk of death, cancer, or crippling complication from a vaccine? There are no rigorous safety studies of sufficient power to rule out a much higher risk of complications, even one in 10,000, for vaccines. Such studies would require an adequate number of subjects, a long duration (years, not days), an unvaccinated control group (“placebo” must be truly inactive such as saline, not the adjuvant or everything-but-the-intended-antigen), and consideration of all adverse health events (including neurodevelopment disorders).

Vaccines are necessarily risky, as recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court and by Congress. The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid some $4 billion in damages, and high hurdles must be surmounted to collect compensation. The damage may be so devastating that most people would prefer restored function to a multimillion-dollar damage award.

The smallpox vaccine is so dangerous that you can’t get it now, despite the weaponization of smallpox. Rabies vaccine is given only after a suspected exposure or to high-risk persons such as veterinarians. The whole-cell pertussis vaccine was withdrawn from the U.S. market, a decade later than from the Japanese market, because of reports of severe permanent brain damage. The acellular vaccine that replaced it is evidently safer, though somewhat less effective.

The risk: benefit ratio varies with the frequency and severity of disease, vaccine safety, and individual patient factors. These must be evaluated by patient and physician, not imposed by a government agency.

Measles is the much-publicized threat used to push for mandates, and is probably the worst threat among the vaccine-preventable illnesses because it is so highly contagious. There are occasional outbreaks, generally starting with an infected individual coming from somewhere outside the U.S. The majority, but by no means all the people who catch the measles have not been vaccinated. Almost all make a full recovery, with robust, life-long immunity. The last measles death in the U.S. occurred in 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Are potential measles complications including death in persons who cannot be vaccinated due to immune deficiency a  justification for revoking the rights of all Americans and establishing a precedent for still greater restrictions on our right to give—or withhold—consent to medical interventions? Clearly not.

Many serious complications have followed MMR vaccination, and are listed in the manufacturers’ package insert, though a causal relationship may not have been proved. According to a 2012 report by the Cochrane Collaboration, “The design and reporting of safety outcomes in MMR vaccine studies, both pre- and post-marketing, are largely inadequate” (cited by the National Vaccine Information Center).

Mandate advocates often assert a need for a 95% immunization rate to achieve herd immunity. However, Mary Holland and Chase Zachary of NYU School of Law argue, in the Oregon Law Review, that because complete herd immunity and measles eradication are unachievable, the better goal is for herd effect and disease control. The best outcome would result, they argue, from informed consent, more open communication, and market-based approaches.             

Even disregarding adverse vaccine effects, the results of near-universal vaccination have not been completely positive. Measles, when it does occur, is four to five times worse than in pre-vaccination times, according to Lancet Infectious Diseases, because of the changed age distribution: more adults, whose vaccine-based immunity waned, and more infants, who no longer receive passive immunity from their naturally immune mother to protect them during their most vulnerable period.

Measles is a vexing problem, and more complete, forced vaccination will likely not solve it. Better public health measures—earlier detection, contact tracing, and isolation; a more effective, safer vaccine; or an effective treatment are all needed. Meanwhile, those who choose not to vaccinate now might do so in an outbreak, or they can be isolated. Immunosuppressed patients might choose isolation in any event because vaccinated people can also possibly transmit measles even if not sick themselves.

Issues that Congress must consider:

  • Manufacturers are virtually immune from product liability, so the incentive to develop safer products is much diminished. Manufacturers may even refuse to make available a product believed to be safer, such as monovalent measles vaccine in preference to MMR (measles-mumps-rubella). Consumer refusal is the only incentive to do better.
  • There are enormous conflicts of interest involving lucrative relationships with vaccine purveyors.
  • Research into possible vaccine adverse effects is being quashed, as is dissent by professionals.
  • There are many theoretical mechanisms for adverse effects from vaccines, especially in children with developing brains and immune systems. Note the devastating effects of Zika or rubella virus on developing humans, even though adults may have mild or asymptomatic infections. Many vaccines contain live viruses intended to cause a mild infection. Children’s brains are developing rapidly—any interference with the complex developmental symphony could be ruinous.
  • Vaccines are neither 100% safe nor 100% effective. Nor are they the only available means to control the spread of disease.

AAPS believes that liberty rights are unalienable. Patients and parents have the right to refuse vaccination, although potentially contagious persons can be restricted in their movements (e.g. as with Ebola), as needed to protect others against a clear and present danger. Unvaccinated persons with no exposure to a disease and no evidence of a disease are not a clear or present danger.

AAPS represents thousands of physicians in all specialties nationwide. It was founded in 1943 to protect private medicine and the patient-physician relationship.

Respectfully yours,

Jane M. Orient, M.D., Executive Director
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

Thursday, April 23, 2020

A Brief History of the ‘Antivax’ Movement - theothersideofvaccines.com

A Brief History of the ‘Antivax’ Movement

Excerpt:

It is often assumed that the ‘anti-vax’ movement began with Andrew Wakefield, and ‘that autism study’, or ... Jenny McCarthy’s claims that her son’s autism was caused by vaccination.

But did these two events really cause tens of thousands of parents to begin questioning vaccines and getting embroiled in bitter skirmishes on social media? Personally, I had never heard of Andrew Wakefield, or Jenny McCarthy, when I first began to delve into the vaccine subject, in early 2010.

Opposition to vaccination is not a new phenomenon – for as long as there have been vaccines, there has been fierce opposition. Originally focused in England, that opposition really gained momentum when the Compulsory Vaccination Act was passed in Victorian England, in 1853.

The main pockets of opposition to compulsory vaccination were among the working class, and the clergy, who believed it was ‘un-Christian’ to inject people with animal products [1].

The original Vaccination Act in 1840 had provided free vaccination for the poor, to be administered by the Poor Law guardians. This law, however, was a failure, as the “lower and uneducated classes” did not take up the offer of free vaccination [1].

The Compulsory Vaccination Act of 1853 went a lot further – it ordered all babies up to 3 months old be vaccinated ( to be administered by Poor Law Guardians), and in 1867, this was extended up to 14 years of age, and penalties for non-compliance were introduced.

read A Brief History of the ‘Antivax’ Movement