Fwd: Racism, genetics and everything else

[Guest guest]

I noticed that the letters from Desmond and Dr Bobby

Tsang have appeared in a number of community newspapers

recently, promoting the measles vaccination campaign.

Published in a South African medical journal - and in other

studies - shows that just one single dose of vitamin A given to

children under the age of 2 years old reduced the morbidity and

mortality in measles by 30 and 50 percent respectfully.

At around $85 each for a vaccine, with a population of 3.8 million,

it's no rocket science to work out which is the cheaper health

option.

However, vaccination remains big business, the success of

which depends on sales. Those who research and develop

vaccines, doctors, and providers, are monetarily rewarded for

pumping them into our children from birth to prevent normal

childhood illnesses developing.Those multi-national

pharmaceutical companies which promote immunisation at the

beginning of our lives and cures at the end, profit the most.

The Ministry of Health has prioritised vaccination for Maori

children. There is significant funding for those who deliver these

'services'. Iwi health providers hold 'tamariki ora' contracts that

require them to fulfill the service to a set number of tamariki.

Comments in government documents such as " parents need to

have all information to make an informed decision to immunise

their children and to have children immunised as recommended

by the well child / tamariki ora schedule " show that there is an

embedded assumption that immunisation is not under debate.  

The question is that while our own health providers may have the

best interests of our babies at heart, they are 'informed'‚ from a

single source (ie government). So that the question is not

" should we immunise? " ‚ but " of course immunisation is right so

HOW do we get all our tamariki immunised? "   There is also no

discretion between one innoculation and another as the

government has created a package deal‚ as part of it's 'well child'

strategy and that again assumes children have the whole range

of vaccinations rather than a selection. The well child book (or

plunket book) that is handed out to new mothers clearly

facilitates the innoculation of babies and children through the

whole range.

How many of you are aware that in order to fulfill his contract,

Tamihere chose an 'opt off' method of vaccinating children

who attended Waipareira Health in Auckland? This meant that

unless a care-giver expressly said their child should NOT be

immunised, the tamaiti got the jab anyway. The opt off

method was a shrewd way to get the job done because many of

our people don't answer letters or fill out forms if no-one is

actively pushing it.  

This decision may not have been just about funding but a

Waikato Kohanga reo expelled a child, (whose mother, in the

face of aggressive coercive blackmail steadfastly refused

vaccination on cultural and religious grounds) as the

government funding for that Kohanga was tagged in favour of

vaccination. (How many of you are aware that vaccines are

manufactured on the cell tissue culture of choice, diploid tissue,

otherwise known as aborted foetal cell culture?)  

In the late 1950's early 1960's all pupils in schools throughout

the country (2,500,000 children) were vaccinated against polio.

Later through the media, we learned that some were injected

with a batch of highly dangerous contaminated monkey based

polio vaccine. This substance left some children crippled for life,

and the rest of us facing threats of possibly developing brain,

kidney, breast and other tumours and multiple sclerosis (to

mention a few).

In 1973 Professor. Classen, (Director of the Institute of

Preventative medicine at the University of Odense in Denmark)

warned the medical establishment : " Millions of people have

been inoculated with anti-polio vaccine contaminated with

tumoural SV40 virus (present in green monkey cells ground to

produce the vaccine). It is possible that it will take 20 or more

years before the eventual harmful effects of the vaccine manifest

itself " .

A decade later our Minister of Health Dr A Malcolm stated: " It

cannot be ruled out that two million New Zealanders could not

be suffering in 30 years time from cancerous brain tumours as a

result of vaccinations " .

The Evening Post (24/7/87), the Dominion (dated July 29/87),

and the NZ Listener (Aug 29 1987) reported that some New

Zealand children given a polio vaccine from Connaught Lab in

USA suffered alarming neurological effects and viral meningitis.

the mass immunisation campaign was called off.

Many of us believed the propaganda that to be good, responsible

adults we had to vaccinate children.

With a family of nine, Maori friends immunised a couple of their

tamariki then discovered that the children still contracted

measles, despite being told that the jabs were to protect them.

Concerns as to why the tamariki contracted measles were

fobbed off with; " oh some children still get a mild dose. "

The woman being a lawyer, our friends began studying vaccine

labels, questioning doctors, reading books, finding out about

alternatives such as nutrition, homeopathy, and looking at our

recent history to see how our forebears and mothers dealt with

illnesses such as dysentery, measles, flu, smallpox and so on.

They looked at diet and qualities of certain foods such as garlic,

honey, oranges, kumara, puha and shark oil. (Captain Cook

stopped scurvy by feeding citrus - vitamin C - to his crew).

Some years ago, indigenous babies in Australia - every second

aboriginal child - began dying following the introduction of an

vaccination programme. Dr Cilento found by feeding them

vitamin C before innoculation, they survived.

We have been born with an immune system which has to

recognise invaders and protect the body against diseases, many

of which are linked to poverty. Maori people had access to good

food - kai which is needed to keep the immune system strong -

food that is now packaged and sold (for exorbitant prices) off the

shelf, such as fish oils, seaweed, kutai, puha, kumera, riwai or

kanga.

Once the family had educated themselves, they decided not to

vaccinate their children. Naturally the public nurses, plunket

nurses and doctors continued to pressure them to conform,

mainly using fear tactics such as " if your child gets measles,

they could be brain damaged " . The whanau waited for their

tamariki to catch all of the usual childhood illnesses - ones

which we were exposed to as children - and nursed their

children that caught mumps, chickenpox, measles, through in

the same way their parents did - including resting in a darkened

room, food rich in vitamins C and A, sufficient hydration, some

sponging down, keeping warm and resting.

The mother was later told by a Chinese practitioner that if the

children didn't catch the diseases at a young age, it was unlikely

that they would get them later as they might have already

developed an immunity by having been in contact with someone

who had had the disease.

She believes the push for inoculation of common childhood

illnesses over the last 30 or so years has diverted our attention

from healthy eating and living. It has also undermined our

confidence to use basic nursing skills to deal with illnesses

which happen with or without vaccination.

The Immunisation Awareness Society, ( http://www.ias.org.nz/ )

Vaccine Information Network, newspapers and some books

comment on the devastating effects of vaccinations which are

not highly publicised. (eg 'The Dangers of Compulsory

vaccinations How to avoid them Legally', by US Attorney Tom

Finn.)

In the book, 'Animal Research Takes Lives' by Bette Overell is

discussed (in chapter 5) the Vaccination conspiracy and the

research and findings into all major childhood immunisations.

If the authorities want to improve Maori health then governments

need to begin with the basics and ensure that their policies will

provide access to jobs and resources which will allow us to feed

our tamariki a balanced diet, and adequately house them.

Housing New Zealand has recognised the proven fact that

insulating houses can improve the health of people living in

substandard dwellings and are taking steps to meet insulation

needs of some of their tenants (who, from recent media

accounts may be better housed than some of our people).

My friend says that the currently highlighted third world conditions

that some Northland people are living under contribute

significantly to ill health and set up pre-existing conditions which

ensure that in the absence of good food and housing,

vaccination against diseases is the only other option.

If you want to banish measles you may wish to consider reading

a South African medical journal about vitamin A therapy. It was

found that one dose of vitamin A given to children under two

years old reduced morbidity and mortality by 30 and 50 percent

respectfully - just one single dose, of a simple cheap nutrient.

Compared to the cost per vaccine of around $85, vitamin A

dosing may save enough money to provide better housing to

ensure healthier New Zealanders.

Kia ora koutou.

Jan, you really got me going. Some of what you say is true. Some

of it is rubbish. Some is just plain stirring.

Yes, vaccines change the genetics of a population, but mostly

because they affect who survives to pass their genes on. So do

diseases and so does education. Population genetics are

changing all the time for all sorts of reasons.

Every medicine, treatment and remedy (including the so-called

natural ones) has some bad effects. They are used because

they do far more good than harm and there isn't anything better.

Yes, there are drug and pesticide companies who make big

profits out of other people's misfortune. But they also make

products that give many thousands of people better lives.

When the pot calls the kettle black I wonder if it is really trying to

draw attention away from itself.

Jan, if you go though life seeing mostly what is bad you will get

the miserable life you deserve. Just look around and you will see

plenty of people making themselves unhappy over things that

can't be changed. You are what you notice.

Alan Armstrong

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