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Vaccine Choice for New Jersey

Jan 26th, 2009
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New Jersey Coalition for Vaccination Choice

Today is the extended dead­line for forced flu shots for young chil­dren in New Jer­sey, the day schools across the state threaten to kick stu­dents out if they haven’t taken the mercury-laden vac­cine. Every year sees more forced and/or pres­sured vac­ci­na­tions, many dozens now in New Jer­sey. The flu shot is par­tic­u­larly unnec­es­sary. An aver­age of two kids a year die from flu in the state and this flu sea­son has only seen two pedi­atric deaths in the entire coun­try. Yes, every death is a shame but why are we kick­ing kids out of school and spend­ing bil­lions of dol­lars in flu shots for a largely non-lethal disease.

New Jer­sey is also known as the state with the high­est con­cen­tra­tion of autism. I’ve met sane-seeming par­ents of special-needs kids who say the symp­toms started right after a vac­ci­na­tion. I’m no expert but I’ve read enough to know the doc­tors and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies have no clue about the cumu­la­tive effect of all these vac­ci­na­tions. They took our lit­tle one Fran­cis in to school this morn­ing despite not hav­ing the shot. We’re keep­ing our fin­gers crossed.

Other New Jer­sians want­ing to know more can check out the New Jer­sey Coali­tion for Vac­ci­na­tion Choice for more about the move­ment to have par­ents these choices for their kids.

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  • AnneS

    Yup, we’re sane. In fact, most of us are highly edu­cated. We saw what hap­pened to our kids, and started research­ing. We leave no stone unturned. And that makes Big Pharma and Big Med­ical and Big Gov­ern­ment unhappy.
    Too many, too soon, too toxic.

  • Dee

    Hey Mar­tin, I used to be a reg­u­lar poster at non​vi​o​lence​.org until for rea­sons not known to me, you stopped the dis­cus­sion board. You know I remem­ber your baby was just born around that time. You may not remem­ber me, but I used to love post­ing with other mem­bers at your site when the US inva­sion of Iraq was at it’s peak. Vac­ci­na­tion is a issue close to my heart now. You may like to visit http://​www​.forums​.beyond​vac​ci​na​tion​.com for some great minds think­ing and debat­ing about this very impor­tant and cru­cial issue.

    • http://www.martinkelley.com/ Mar­tin Kelley

      Hi Dee: thanks, that looks great. I just looked through it and book­marked it for later use.

      The Non​vi​o​lence​.org board was drain­ing all of my time and atten­tion. Between con­stant upgrades from keep­ing it from being hacked and con­stant cat-and-mouse games with extreme trou­ble­mak­ers it was too costly. I moved the site over to a social “Ning” site last year and there’s all sorts of dis­cus­sion boards and Blog forums there: .

  • http://dodgytackle.wordpress.com/ Quak­er­Dave

    Since I work in a large pub­lic school, I cringe at the idea that some of my stu­dents may not be vac­ci­nated against seri­ous ill­nesses. How­ever, I share your con­cerns about the link between autism and vac­cines. I do NOT com­pletely trust the recent gov­ern­ment reports de-linking these two, and — call me cyn­i­cal — but it’s because a) the vac­cine man­u­fac­tur­ers have the gov­ern­ment in their pock­ets, and b) the gov­ern­ment, believe it or not, has been known to lie.

    And requir­ing the flu shot for oth­er­wise healthy kids is just dumb. I had my first-ever flu shot a few years ago, and I was sick for the next four days.

    • Daniel

      Inter­est­ingly, the legal cases that have been awarded to plain­tiffs have shown a con­nec­tion between vac­cines and viral-induced brain trauma (which is in turn con­nected to autism) while specif­i­cally avoid­ing the con­nec­tion to Autism. In these cases the judges have explic­itly agreed that there is some con­nec­tion between the two. In the cases where “Autism” is to be proved the courts have sided with Big Pharma. Thus, when courts say the vaccine=autism link has been “struck down” what they appear to be strik­ing down is really the seman­tic con­nec­tion, and not the med­ical one.

  • dis­c­golfer

    I want to move to New Jer­sey (Fair­lawn) in three or four months with my Ukrain­ian wife and her 7 year old son. How­ever, I will NOT move there with the cur­rent (sick) “Manda­tory” vac­ci­na­tion sched­ule! Any ideas on how to opt out of this? Philo­soph­i­cal or reli­gious exemptions?