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Hot on the heels of the announcement that preeminent vaccine educator and medical doctor Larry Palevsky is coming to Chapel Hill (see Dr. Palevsky to Speak in Chapel Hill about VAX), I learn from a friend about a Vaccine Contest sponsored by the Chapel Hill/Carrboro public schools. This blew my mind. If it blows your mind too and you want to take action, please keep reading.
THE ISSUE:
Dr. Neil Pederson, Superintendent of Chapel Hill/Carrboro Schools, has endorsed and promoted a contest encouraging adolescents to vaccinate. You can read about his goals and the contest he is promoting here: http://www2.chccs.k12.nc.us/education/components/board/default.php?sectiondetailid=73134&threadid=7650
Here is some information directly from his website:
“There are 3 vaccines that are especially recommended for adolescents.
• Meningococcal Vaccine is recommended at 11-12 years of age and again at 16-18 (the second dose is a new recommendation). If not received at age 11-12, 13-18 year olds should receive a dose at the first opportunity.
• Tdap (tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis) Vaccine is required for all students who will be entering the 6th grade unless they have had a Td (tetanus/diphtheria) vaccine in the last 5 years. Tdap is recommended for all other adolescents.
• HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) Vaccine (3 doses) is recommended for any student 9 years of age or older who has never been vaccinated.
“NOW…about the contest… To be eligible for the contest, a student will need to receive at least one vaccine, meningococcal vaccine, between 4-1-11 and 5-31-11. The student will need to take proof of the meningococcal vaccine received to the school nurse by 10:00 AM on 6-1-11. The school nurse will then enter the student in the contest. The student will have 2 entries for having received the meningococcal vaccine.
“Additionally, if the student receives a Tdap and/or a HPV vaccine between 4-1-11 and 5-31-11, he/she would receive one entry for each when the record is provided to the school nurse. A student receiving all 3 vaccines would be entered 4 times.”
And what would the winners of the contest receive? And I-pod or laptop computer.
In essence, Dr. Pederson and the school district are bribing children and their families to become vaccinated (even the HPV vax, a non-mandatory vax, is included). These children are not fully informed of the possible risks of vaccination, are underage, and are being bribed to take actions that will possibly injure them. This scenario, while almost certainly not foreseen by Dr. Pederson, but it is still unconscionable and must be stopped.
WHY HAVE THIS CONTEST?
According to the Chapel Hill/Carrboro City Schools website:
“This contest is made possible by a donation from Cora and Paul Harrison in memory and honor of their daughter, Julia, who died of meningococcal disease. The family has chosen to honor Julia's memory by promoting adolescent vaccinations in the hope that no other family will lose a child to a vaccine-preventable disease. Please help honor Julia by making sure your child is fully vaccinated!”
WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
While it is tragic that Julia died and we honor the parent’s motives to protect children from disease, the approach being taken by Superintendent Pederson is completely wrong. Risks of vaccine injury are significant, which is why the federal government created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. With the number of vaccine injuries so high, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court have shielded vaccine manufacturers from legal action.
Bribing children and parents with toys such as ipods and laptops so that they will vaccinate and risk potentially life-altering or lethal results without full disclosure of the risks is unconscionable. This mass bribery and vaccination effort has let a new genie out of the bottle, opened a new Pandora’s box, and it must be stopped. Please take a moment to contact Superintendent Pederson and make your voices heard.
TALKING/EMAIL POINTS
1. Thank you for your many years of service to the Chapel Hill/Carrboro school system. I appreciate your many accomplishments and improvements. I am writing, however, to express my extreme concern about the vaccination contest that was launched on April 26, 2011.
2. While it is tragic that Julia died and I honor the parent’s motives to protect children from disease, the contest approach is completely unacceptable. Risks of vaccine injury are significant, which is why the federal government created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/. With the number of vaccine injuries so high, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court have shielded vaccine manufacturers from legal action.
3. Bribing children and parents with toys/educational tools such as ipods and laptops so that they will vaccinate and risk potentially life-altering or lethal results without full disclosure of the risks is unconscionable. Further, encouraging 16 year old children to make these decisions without the input of their parents is completely unacceptable and it appears to be pandering to the drug companies.
4. There are numerous reports of vaccine-related injury and death and many incidents that are unreported. A simple Internet search will lead to many of the reports. While vaccine manufacturers and government agencies deny the links, they did create the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, and Congress shielded manufacturers from liability. If there truly is no link between vaccination and injury and death, there would be no need to shield anyone from liability, and the number of parents believing that their children are vaccine injured would not continue to grow.
5. As an example of our concerns, please consider these statistics about the HPV vaccine from the Vaccine Adverse Reaction Reporting System (VAERS). VAERS reports that there have been 21,724 adverse incidents, with 77 deaths through March 11, 2011. Further, the U.S. Government website Women's Health states that:
“Human papillomavirus (pap-uh-LOH-muh-veye-ruhss), or HPV, is the name for a group of viruses that includes more than 100 types. More than 40 types of HPV can be passed through sexual contact.
The types of HPV that infect the genital area are called genital HPV. Over half of sexually active people will have HPV at some point in their lives. But most people never know it. This is because HPV most often has no symptoms and goes away on its own.”
6. Risks from Meningococcal disease, a very tragic disease, are also very small, with an average of 1,500 people infected each year from 1998 – 2007. Of those 1,500, 11 percent or 165 people will die (National Meningitis Association). The CDC VAERS database shows that 10,275 people have had adverse vaccine reactions, with 29 deaths through March 22, 2011.
7. For religious reasons, people choose not to vaccinate. This contest discriminates against those whose religion prevents them from vaccinating.
8. Please end the Chapel Hill/Carrboro school district vaccination contest program. There is certainly enough effort put into vaccinating children, and bribery should not be used.
9. If you do not end this program, please make parents and children 16 years of age and older aware of the risks of vaccination.
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Please provide them information about the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and the statistics from the CDC VAERS database, and please let them know that vaccine injury is greatly underreported.
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Please let them know that the vaccine manufacturers are immune from legal action if people do become injured or die.
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Please provide them the efficacy of the vaccinations (many of the vaccinated still contract the disease, such as whooping cough, measles, chicken pox).
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Please provide them with the vaccine ingredients.
Fully informed decisions by children and their parents are a must.
Thank you for your consideration of these concerns.
Sincerely,
YOUR NAME, CITY and STATE
DR. PEDERSON’S CONTACT INFORMATION:
Phone: 919-967-8219 x 28226
PLEASE CC: THE SCHOOL BOARD ON YOUR EMAILS:
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This is just unbelievable. I'm literally speechless. How could anyone think that such a thing is ethically sound? They should be charged with attempted murder.
Posted by: Dru | May 09, 2011 at 11:10 AM
Thank you so much for posting this. What I can not believe is that on top of all this, the girl that died WAS VACCINATED AGAINST MENINGITIS.
http://www.nmaus.org/awareness/north-carolina.htm
"Cora and her husband, Paul, were shocked to hear that Julia died as a result of meningococcal disease, since Julia had been vaccinated against the disease a few years earlier. The Harrison's didn't realize that it was important to be aware of the symptoms of meningococcal disease, because even with vaccination some people may contract the disease."
Posted by: Amy @ Real Food Whole Health | May 09, 2011 at 12:12 PM
The FACT alone that the girl who died from meningococcal disease, was vaccinated two years previously, CLEARLY indicates that vaccines DO NOT work. Injecting disease and toxic chemicals into one's blood stream has NEVER been proven "safe and/or effective"... I would like to know how much this school and it's employees are getting in cash rewards to push this NONSENSE??? Talk about UNETHICAL and practicing medicine without a license...not that it matters anyway... It NEVER ceases to amaze me the levels to which BIG pharma will stoop to make a buck or two. Just paying $800 for an I-Pad is a whole lot more cost effective than the astronomical cost of a life time of serious health problems and family heartache that these vaccines DEFINITELY DO cause...
Posted by: Cee | May 09, 2011 at 01:08 PM
Thank you for reading, and thank you for this information. I am arranging some press around this, and this is such an important thing to know!!
Posted by: Laura Combs | May 09, 2011 at 01:54 PM
I would recommend reading through the information on this site:
http://antiantivax.flurf.net/
There is a lot of misinformation out there & scare tactics used by charlatans pushing "alternative remedies" in place of proven medical science. Get educated.
Posted by: Lawrence | May 10, 2011 at 11:16 AM
Any parent would absolutely out of their mind to let their child be an experiment, and should be charged with child abuse!
Posted by: laura short | May 10, 2011 at 01:28 PM
Swine Flu was also a bribe at school!! The kids got icecream who received these vaccinations containing Thimerosal..omg..I'm soooooooo ticked off right now..Where do these kids stop being experiments? Are we trying to make a superhuman like the Germans tried or what? why do they do this to our kids? This is like the Holocaust!!
The fate of Jewish and non-Jewish children can be categorized in the following way: 1) children killed when they arrived in killing centers; 2) children killed immediately after birth or in institutions; 3) children born in ghettos and camps who survived because prisoners hid them; 4) children, usually over age 12, who were used as laborers and as subjects of medical experiments; and 5) those children killed during reprisal operations or so-called anti-partisan operations.
Posted by: laura short | May 10, 2011 at 01:44 PM
You are objecting to a public health exercise aimed at protecting children from disease? Why would anyone be so irresponsible?
The risk of an adverse reaction to a vaccine is tiny in comparison to the risks of being killed or permanently damaged by one of the diseases they are very (though not 100%) effective against.
Please don't believe the anti-vaccine propaganda that is so common on the internet. Get some reliable information about vaccine safety instead. VAERS is not a reliable source of information about adverse reactions to vaccines. Here's what they say on their website:
"A report to VAERS generally does not provide sufficient basis for concluding that the identified vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine receipt. No proof that the event was caused by the vaccine is required in order for VAERS to accept the report. VAERS accepts all reports without judging whether the event was caused by the vaccine."
I am truly shocked that anyone would start a campaign against a life-saving measure like this. Please reconsider what you are doing. I am sure you are well-meaning, but you have been lied to about this.
Posted by: Krebiozen | May 10, 2011 at 01:48 PM
I have 2 Autistic children and have seen first hand what Mercury does to children..That is a fact..And then to come out with a Swine Flu vaccination and start using Thimerasol again in children?, after being banned in every country but the U.S. by 1980 proves this..I trust no vaccinations that are not totally necessary, and will continue to refuse them for my children..What could the effects be on a child with a learning disability already and or brain damage? You really have to consider that..It is coming out finally after this cover up:
http://www.naturalnews.com/032216_Thorsen_fraud.html
That mercury is to blame..Parents need to be informed on this situation unfolding..
This came out yesterday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXp4hM3eQuI
Posted by: laura short | May 10, 2011 at 02:15 PM
Laura - you really need to read the information provided at: http://antiantivax.flurf.net/
Natural News is not scientific, not science, and certainly not a reliable place to get information regarding the welfare of your children.
The amount of misinformation & outright lies that are being told here is a health hazard all in itself. Your parents had you vaccinated - and you were spared having polio, measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, etc - vaccines have been around longer than almost all other modern medical science (from the first smallpox/cowpox vaccine) & have been vetted in more circumstances than you could imagine.
Try moving to a country where all of these disease are endemic - you'd be surprised how quickly the natives want to get vaccinated, because they've seen whole generations of children either killed or permanently maimed by "simple" childhood diseases.
Did you ever wonder why our past generations had some many kids - it was because 1 in 5 (or more) died before the age of five. You've been mislead by charlatans and woo-pushers who would like nothing more than to sell you their books, their "homeopathic treatments," and god-forbid chemical chelation / lupron protocol (i.e. chemical castration) in the name of "scary" vaccines.
Seriously - please read the link & educate yourself. Don't let those who know nothing about modern medical science put your children at risk of diseases that, by all rights, should have been wiped out already.
Posted by: Lawrence | May 10, 2011 at 02:35 PM