What Is Herd Immunity?
Herd immunity has been misunderstood when applied to animal herds and was always a false concept when applied to vaccinated groups.
- Herd immunity referred to natural immunity acquired by a herd of animals, that is, immunity acquired over time as animals in a herd got exposed to a disease and more and more individuals developed permanent immunity to it. When enough animals in a herd developed that natural immunity one could say, in a general way, that the herd had an immunity to the disease. This was versus another herd with less exposure and fewer members with natural defenses. Individuals in the first herd could still potentially catch the disease but “herd immunity” meant the disease would not run rampant since most of the animals had been exposed previously.In summary, herd immunity is thus a kind of comparative description of groups of animals that had already gotten the disease (naturally) versus groups that had not (those didn’t collectively have much immunity).
- When used to describe vaccination of groups the fallacy of herd immunity doubles. First, vaccines do not confer permanent immunity. In any group, vaccine “immunization” would always be wearing off for large numbers of the members of the group. Second, vaccines skew the immune system toward an inferior form of immunity, actually making those vaccinated more susceptible to disease.
Vaccines increase susceptibility to disease
This greater susceptibility to disease after vaccination is increasingly confirmed.
With flu shots, the person’s risk of getting the flu is doubled if they had previously been vaccinated for it. In addition, the indications in a ferret study (below) is that the vaccinated group became much sicker when they got the disease than those who got it but had not been vaccinated.
According to the Vancouver Sun:1
“Researchers, led by Vancouver’s Dr. Danuta Skowronski, an influenza expert at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, noticed in the early weeks of the [2009 H1N1] pandemic that people who got a flu shot for the 2008-09 winter seemed to be more likely to get infected with the pandemic virus than people who hadn’t received a flu shot. Five studies done in several provinces showed the same unsettling results.”
In March last year, ABC News reported:2
What was a bit surprising when we looked at some of the data from Canada and Hong Kong in the last year is that people who have been vaccinated in 2008 with the seasonal or ordinary vaccine seemed to have twice the risk of getting swine flu compared to the people who hadn’t received that vaccine,’ [Professor Collignon from the Australian National University] said.
ANU microbiologists say it is the opposite of what vaccines should do.
Professor Collignon says the findings of the study also highlight the benefits for healthy people who are exposed to some illnesses.
‘Some interesting data has become available which suggests that if you get immunised with the seasonal vaccine, you get less broad protection than if you get a natural infection,’ he said.
‘It is particularly relevant for children because it is a condition they call original antigenic sin, which basically meansif you get infected with a natural virus, that gives you not only protection against that virus but similar viruses or even in fact quite different flu viruses in the next year.’
‘We may be perversely setting ourselves up that if something really new and nasty comes along, that people who have been vaccinated may in fact be more susceptible compared to getting this natural infection.'”
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“Skowronski and a group of researchers have recreated the event in ferrets. Their findings were presented… at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a major international infectious diseases conference taking place in San Francisco. Skowronski… worked with 32 ferrets, giving half the 2008 seasonal flu shot and the rest a placebo injection. The work was blinded, meaning the researchers didn’t know which ferrets received which shot. Later, all the ferrets were infected with the pandemic H1N1 virus.
The ferrets in the vaccine group became significantly sicker than the other animals, though all recovered. ‘The findings are consistent with the increased risk that we saw in the human studies,’ Skowronski said.”
What is the difference between natural immunity and vaccine “immunization”?
From http://natureasmuse.blogspot.com/2012/09/naturally-acquired-versus-vaccine.html
“When children are born, they develop natural immunity to a large variety of microorganisms that they breathe, eat, and touch. The immune responses initiated by cells lining their airways, skin and intestines are very important in creating “memory” and protection against the microorganisms they naturally come into contact with every day. That primary line of defense is a very important step in the maturation of your child’s immune system – and it’s bypassed when he/she gets a vaccine. [Emphasis added.]
“With vaccination, you are merely creating an antibody, but as the Journal of Virology study9 showed, the unvaccinated children actually built up more antibodies against a wider variety of flu virus strains than the vaccinated children!
“Vaccines usually do not impart long-term immunity because they don’t create the kind of memory that occurs when you go through the process of a natural immune response. Natural exposure does not necessarily lead to symptoms of infection – it is possible for your immune system to respond and for you to obtain natural immunity without actually getting sick, if your immune system is functioning well. In fact, vaccines do NOT strengthen the healthy functioning of your immune system, but actually weaken it. [Emphasis added.]
“Here are just some of the ways vaccines can impair and alter your immune response:
- Some components in vaccines are neurotoxic and may depress your immune response or cause brain and immune dysfunction, particularly heavy metals such asmercury preservatives (thimerosal) and aluminum adjuvants
- The lab altered vaccine viruses themselves may also affect your immune response in a negative way
- Vaccines may alter your t-cell function and lead you to become chronically ill
- Vaccines can trigger allergies or autoimmune disorders. Vaccines introduce large foreign protein molecules into your body. Your body can respond to these foreign particles in a way that causes an allergic reaction or triggers autoimmunity, especially in persons genetically or biologically vulnerable to allergy and autoimmunity
GMO vaccines have altered the entire landscape of vaccination, making vaccine viruses highly unpredictable
Many are not aware but ALL the new vaccines are GMO vaccines (sometimes called “DNA” vaccines). http://salem-news.com/articles/july172011/murdoch-vaccines-wn.php The method of delivery of these vaccine into children and adults is the same as the method used to genetically alter corn or soy or other crops.
A veterinary article on rabies bait (food dropped from planes to wild animals, containing oral rabies vaccines) describes a disturbing turn of events with these vaccines, and by logical extension, with all recombinant GMO vaccines.
This is a critical article for everyone to read, to understand the highly unusual and very serious threat being posed now by GMO vaccines.
From With Baited Breath http://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/rabies-bait-dangers/
“There are other dangers inherent in genetically modified vaccines that make rabies baits pretty dangerous stuff. Splicing rabies onto other viruses can carry many risks that we are just recently becoming aware of. In Arizona and other parts of the US, rabies is starting to jump species. For the first time, we are seeing rabies jump from bats to foxes to skunks with no bite required. …. Maybe somebody should figure that out before they go splicing that virus together with other viruses, creating one angry mutant virus.
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“Dr. Terje Traavik PhD (Centre of Biosafety), has written extensively about how genetically engineered viruses are creating new hybrid viruses through recombination. He cautions that the characteristics of some of these new hybrid viruses are similar to both of the parent viruses but also include traits from neither. Dr. Traavik specifically expresses concern about the stability of genetically engineered viruses. He notes that cases of rabies infected humans could be due to a return to virulence of the genetically engineered rabies virus with the pox viruses. [Emphasis added.]
“In addition to the danger of jumping species and return to virulence, there is another frightening way for these new viruses to spread: aerosolization. It used to be that we could feel pretty safe about rabies because the chances that our dogs would trade saliva with another animal were pretty slim. Nowadays, thanks to recombinant vaccines, there is no bite required. The Center for Disease Control acknowledges that rabies can be spread via aerosolization so you or your dog need only be in close proximity to a rabies infected animal to be in danger.
“Despite these gaps of knowledge and frightening possibilities, the US alone continues to drop tens of millions of genetically modified, rabies/pox spliced vaccines into your backyard. What does this mean for you and your dog? It means the days of rabies being a simple but deadly virus with a simple mode of transmission are long gone. In their wake are questions of just easily how can these new mutant rabies strains be spread, can they just jump from one species to another and potentially jump to humans like West Nile Disease, and can the animals eating those baits actually get rabies? As we ponder these questions, the baits continue to drop by the thousands and new genetically modified vaccines are being developed at a maddening rate.”
Conclusion
Vaccines are being forced on the public under the false premise of creating herd immunity and the falsehood that non-vaccination is dangerous to the person and those around them. The opposite is true.
Herd immunity is only a collection of individuals in a group who acquired a disease naturally.
Vaccination disrupts natural immunity and substitutes an inferior, narrower and shorter-lived protection. And in multiple ways vaccination actually weakens the immune system. Additionally, it has now become clear that vaccination makes the person more susceptible to disease and a more serious case of it.
This explains why we are seeing outbreaks of measles, flu and other diseases in fully vaccinated populations that allegedly should have been protected by herd immunity.” Instead the group was more at risk and may have actually contracted the disease from the vaccines.
How it works in animals is the same as it works in people:
“When things go wrong, the animal is in a weakened state when he consumes the bait. When modified live vaccines are given to animals that are ill or stressed at the time of vaccination, there is a very real risk of vaccine failure or the vaccine actually producing the disease it is supposed to protect against. Alternately, any latent disease the animal may be harboring will become a full blown disease once he consumes the bait [takes the vaccine] because of the resulting stress on his immune system. With humans encroaching on their territory at an alarming rate, it is likely safe to say that many members of the wildlife population are stressed and malnourished, making them susceptible to vaccine-induced illness.”
Needless to say people are living under a great deal of stress themselves.
The solution to both the dangers of GMO vaccines and of vaccines weakening immune systems and causing diseases, is to rely on natural immunity and look for means to boost it and to kill viruses harmlessly using natural viricides.
Here is how to move to natural immunity with backup. This absolute viricid is entirely safe, so optimal dosage can easily be adjusted upwards.
http://injectablevitaminc.com/images/Ch23.pdf
But until herd immunity is fully laid to rest, the government will continue to blame unvaccinated people (where true group immunity needs to be allowed to happen) and to impose yet more immune-weakening vaccines on the public – vaccines containing mutating viruses that cause diseases that are increasinngly more contagious, virulent, and bizarre.
Beyond exposing the fallacy of herd immunity, there must be a rapid waking up to the extreme dangers of GMO vaccines, which should not be hard to achieve given the mass awareness occurring now around extreme dangers of GMO non-food. The anti-GMO groups often comprised of parents wanting to protect their children only need to recognize that their children are receiving GMO vaccines, already proven to be highly unpredictable and more virulent. But if they go one step further and realize that GMO vaccines are altering their children’s DNA – that is, genetically modifying their children as Monsanto is doing to corn -ebolagate then they will respond to GMO vaccines in a way that is protective of their children. Not many would be comfortable with insect DNA being shot into and becoming a part o their children’s DNA.
Guest writer ShiftFrequency
(Thanks, AS)