The decision of whether to vaccinate or not is one of the most important decisions a parent will ever make. Test your knowledge – use this quiz to help you make a fully informed decision about vaccine safety, efficacy, and necessity.
Unlike all other pharmaceutical products, childhood vaccines are not required to undergo long-term, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies to assess safety1. Safety trials conducted without a neutral placebo are unable to determine if a product is safe.
The length of pre-licensure safety testing of vaccines on the childhood schedule is 3–42 days, with the average length of testing at 5 days 2, 3. These safety trials only consider short-term reactions and are not designed to determine whether vaccines contribute to the development of long-term neurological disorders, autoimmune diseases, cancers, or other chronic illnesses. Whereas, the length of pre-licensure safety testing of pharmaceutical drugs is typically 5–10 years.
A study conducted for the Center for Disease Control by Harvard Pilgrim Hospital in the US concluded that fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported1. This means that more than 99% of vaccine adverse events go unreported. The study also found that 2.6% of vaccinations resulted in injuries — a ratio of 1 for every 39 vaccines administered.5
Canada introduced a vaccine injury compensation program in December 2020. Until then, Canada and Russia were the only G20 Nations without a vaccine injury compensation program. The funds paid to vaccine-injured individuals come from taxpayers, not the producers of the vaccine. Vaccine producers are not held responsible for injury and death caused by their products.
None of the vaccine products licensed for use in Canada provide lifetime immunity. Up to 10% of individuals are non-responders to vaccination and receive no protection from vaccines. This is considered primary vaccine failure. The immunity offered by vaccines wanes over time. This is considered secondary vaccine failure. The immunity offered by vaccines is “partial, temporary and incomplete.”6 Many outbreaks are due to vaccine failure rather than a failure to vaccinate.
Not all vaccines are designed to prevent infection or transmission. Many vaccines are only intended to reduce the severity of symptoms should an infection occur. These include – Polio, Diphtheria, Influenza, Pertussis, Tetanus, and COVID-19 vaccines. Therefore, being vaccinated for these infections does not increase the safety of public spaces.7 These vaccines do not provide ‘immunity’ to disease.
Up to 99% of the decline in mortality in the last century occurred prior to the introduction of specific vaccines. Clean water, closed sanitation, improved hygiene, reduced exposure to toxins, clean air, better housing, breastfeeding, good nutrition and quarantine are the public health measures responsible for the decline in mortality.8 Medical interventions, including vaccines, are recognized as contributing only 1–3% of the decline.
The EPA in the US classifies a level of mercury above 200 ppb as toxic waste. The level of mercury in the childhood influenza vaccine (multi-dose vial) is 25,000 ppb, and 50,000 ppb in the adult influenza vaccine.10 There are no clinical studies that show injecting mercury into humans is safe in any amount. Mercury is ranked as the third most toxic substance by the US Government Agency for Toxic Substances.11
The CDC began recommending the influenza and DTaP vaccines to pregnant women despite no randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials to determine whether this is safe. A 2019 Freedom of Information request which sought the clinical trials relied upon by the FDA prior to approving any currently licensed influenza or Tdap vaccine for use in pregnant women revealed the FDA has “no records of such clinical trials.” 12 The CDC’s own researchers have found an association between the vaccination of pregnant women and a significantly increased risk of miscarriage.
Disorders such as autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities, life-threatening allergies, juvenile diabetes, childhood cancers, seizures, and autoimmune diseases such as arthritis are increasing at a dramatic rate. Today, one in ten children in Canada has a life-threatening affliction.13 The 2018 Raising Canada report conducted by the O’Brien Institute for Public Health concluded that “there is a failing state of children’s health today.”14
The vaccine injury compensation program in the US has awarded compensation to many individuals on the basis that vaccines contributed to or caused autism.15 The government’s primary autism expert in Vaccine Court, Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, provided an affidavit affirming that vaccines can cause autism in some children.16, 17 A recent Freedom of Information request revealed that the CDC was unable to provide a single study to support their claim that the vaccines given to infants in the first six months of life do not cause autism.18
Prior to 1970 autism was extremely rare with a rate of less than 1 in 10,000. The rate of autism in Canada today is estimated to be more than 1 in 66. The rate of autism is increasing at a rate not possible with genetic causation. An environmental factor is clearly indicated.
According to Health Canada, approximately 1 child in 66 and 1 in 42 boys is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.19 This rate continues to increase. At the current rate of growth, autism is projected to affect 1 in 2 children by 2032. By comparison, there was a total of 113 cases of measles in Canada in 2019, with no deaths or permanent injury reported.20 No children under 15 years old have died from measles in Canada during the last 10 years, whether vaccinated or unvaccinated.
The estimated lifetime cost to support an individual with autism and an intellectual disability is $2.4 M US ($3.14 M CA).21 Researchers estimate that by the year 2025 the annual cost to care for individuals with autism in the United States will exceed $461 billion per year.22 In the UK, the cost to support individuals with autism is greater than that of cancer, heart disease and stroke combined.
Nearly all ingested aluminum is excreted from the body, whereas nearly all of the aluminum administered by injection remains in the body and accumulates over time. Researchers have discovered that aluminum in vaccines crosses the blood-brain barrier and is transported into the brain where it can seriously disrupt the normal course of brain development.23 Injected aluminum has also been identified as a contributing factor to Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
Currently, aluminum is included in at least six childhood vaccines including: Hepatitis A & B, Diphtheria-Tetanus containing vaccines, Haemophilus Influenza Type B, Pneumococcal, and HPV.24 A child in Canada receiving all government-recommended vaccines can be injected with over 7,000 micrograms of aluminum in the first few years of life.25 Vaccines are recognized as an acute source of aluminum exposure.
The following live virus vaccines are grown in cell strains derived from aborted human fetuses – Rubella (MMRV), Varicella (chicken pox), Zoster (shingles), and Hep A & B. This is identified on the product information insert as WI-38 and MRC-5. WI-38 are cells from the lung tissue of an aborted girl in 1964. MRC-5 is a cell strain from a 14-week male aborted in 1966.26
Vaccines contain all of the above, and more: detergents, stabilizers, stabilizers, neutralizers, carrying agents, MSG, glyphosate, genetically modified viruses, human and animal DNA/RNA, and other ingredients.27 These ingredients can counteract and/or bond synergistically, thereby increasing their potential impact. The consequences of this interaction are unknown.
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The medium in which vaccine bacteria and viruses are cultivated can include all of the above. The animal DNA/RNA and viruses cannot be fully screened out during the manufacturing process.28 The injection of animal DNA/RNA compromises the biological integrity of the human race. The long-term impact of this is unknown.
A child in Canada can receive as many as 73 doses of 20 different vaccines by age 18 if one follows the recommended vaccine schedule, not including the COVID-19 vaccine.29 If the COVID-19 vaccine continues to be recommended for children, a child could receive more than 90 doses of 21 vaccines by age 18. Children in Canada and the United States receive the most vaccines in the developed world.
Children as young as 9 years of age are being allowed to make vaccination decisions without the knowledge or consent of his or her parents. In many provinces there is no specified age of consent. Public health officials regularly use the Mature Minor Doctrine to undermine parental authority.
All vaccines in Canada are voluntary. Only two provinces, Ontario and New Brunswick, require the filing of an exemption if abstaining from one or more of the recommended vaccines. Health Canada has clearly stated that vaccines are voluntary in Canada and cannot be made mandatory due to our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Vaccines administered under coercion is considered medical assault.
We know that parents who vaccinate their children sincerely believe they are protecting their child from harm. They believe vaccines will provide a type of health insurance, shielding their child from disease.
At Vaccine Choice Canada we think it is important that we push beyond using ‘belief’ as the basis for the vaccine decision, and instead decide from a place of information based on quality scientific evidence.
Edda West, Co-founder
Vaccine Choice Canada
The absence of real scientific evidence of vaccine safety and effectiveness leads informed parents to conclude the vaccination paradigm is ideology rather than evidence-based medicine and more akin to religion than science.
Parents whose children have been harmed are no longer accepting the vaccine ideology on faith. Their trust has been broken.
Ted Kuntz, President
Vaccine Choice Canada
If they are science-based, step up and be science-based. If they’re not science-based, make that explicit and then society can have an interesting discussion about whether we should have these philosophies… as part of our health-care system.
Timothy Caulfield
Canada Research Chair