The Pertussis vaccine presents a really interesting example of how vaccines are inferior to natural
infection.
During a pertussis infection, the bacteria releases several toxins, one of them extremely
clever and is called ACT.
ACT tricks your immune system into thinking nothing is wrong for about 14 days.
This gives the infection a two-week head start before your immune system figures out what's
really going on.
During that time, the infection is able to get a solid foothold.
Eventually your immune system will catch on,
and is able to develop protection against ACT.
That's a good thing, because the NEXT time you get a Pertussis infection, your body will
be prepared and the ACT sneak attack won't work.
The NEXT time you get an infection, it can be cleared easily because that two-week grace
period is now gone.
When you receive a Pertussis vaccine, your body's immune system gets programmed incorrectly.
The Pertussis vaccine doesn't contain any ACT antigens, because they haven't figured
out how to do that yet, so the vaccine forces your immune system to react to a Pertussis
infection differently than a natural infection.
It reacts much more slowly.
Unfortunately, your body will never learn that ACT trick once you're vaccinated.
Even if you get a Pertussis infection after you were vaccinated for it, your immune system
has already been programmed incorrectly from the vaccine and can't be taught the correct
way.
EVER.
It can't un-learn the old way.
This is why it's so important to mount the correct immune response the first time.
You basically get one chance to get things right.
I'm oversimplifying this a bit, but the crucial component of the natural immune response to
Whooping Cough is your body's ability to quickly recognize that specific toxin, ACT, and start
mounting a defense.
The vaccine specifically prevents your body from doing this.
Dr. Suzanne Humphries explains this much better than I can in her Dissolving Illusions book,
so I'd go read that book and get a real explanation from a real physician.
Another interesting thing about ACT- I'm sure you've heard that many of the pertussis outbreaks
happening around the country may actually be from a different strain of bacteria than
the one targeted in the vaccine- what they call Bordetella PARA-pertussis.
Well the ACT trick is also employed in THAT strain of the bacteria to get that 2-week head start
on your immune system.
Remember, if you had a natural infection, you will have developed ACT immunity and even
though you were never vaccinated for Bordetella PARA-pertussis (because a vaccine doesn't
exist for it) and even though you had never caught PARA-pertussis before, your body would
still quickly mount a strong response to it.
Nature is amazing like that.
More amazing than science in fact.
I believe in Nature.
Do you?
I'm pro-nature.
Are you?
Besides the gnarly side effects that have been associated with the Pertussis vaccine
throughout it's troubled history, it just doesn't work very good.
Possibly due to the way it prevents your body from dealing with that one toxin correctly.
How effective is it?
There was a study in 2012 out of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center that looked at an outbreak
of 132 cases of laboratory-confirmed Whooping Cough.
81% of those were fully-vaccinated.
That means they'd had what, 5 pertussis shots?
This wasn't a case of PARA-pertussis infections, by the way.
These were your standard Bordetella pertussis infections- the one the vaccine was designed
to protect against.
The un-vaccinated kids got infected at the same rates as the fully-vaccinated.
You expect the un-vaccinated kids to pick up the disease.
But just once.
The fully-vaccinated get the disease just as frequently.
It's no wonder they're openly discussing going back to the dreaded whole-cell Pertussis vaccine-
the one that worked slightly better and like the current acellular vaccine also had nothing
to do with increased sudden infant deaths and/or seizures.
And just in case you're new around here, the Pertussis vaccine doesn't prevent disease
transmission.
It doesn't affect the spread of Whooping Cough.
It doesn't factor into herd immunity, protecting the weak, etc.
So if you're insisting children get a DTaP shot on your Facebook page to protect the weak, you can take off
your halo 'cause it doesn't work that way.
If you are considering vaccinating your baby 164 times for the rest of their life in hopes
they don't get Whooping Cough, then I applaud your courage and steadfast devotion to mainstream
medical orthodoxy.
It takes a lot of courage to run that gauntlet in hopes that all the vaccines add up to
having been worth it.
If, however, you prefer to intelligently examine the actual science about vaccines, and the
actual nature of the human body, I think you'll find it very easy to say no to the Pertussis
vaccine.
And that is my incredible opinion.