HPV vaccine police fail in attempt to target another U.S. locale
It was a giant victory in the fight to keep our kids safe.
Just yesterday in a packed meeting room in Pittsburgh, the Allegheny County Board of Health almost unanimously rejected a plan to force HPV shots on county children.
At first, it looked like another case of the vaccine police coming for our kids, just as was done in California and Rhode Island.
Only this time, the message apparently got through loud and clear — parents and grandparents won’t be standing for officials taking charge over what shots their kids get or don’t get.
And while this was just one county in one state, the implications are enormous.
But we can’t let our guard down just yet.
Health authorities in Allegheny County wanted to force HPV shots, such as Gardasil, on children as a requirement to attend school. The kids would have to get the full series of three shots by the seventh grade or they would be tossed out on the streets.
It’s all part of a frightening new scheme to up Gardasil sales — an attempted takeover by unelected officials who, once again, tried to strip us of our voice and put thousands more children in harm’s way.
Although this proposal was decisively voted down, the officials who were behind it haven’t given up just yet. The decision still kept a crack in the door open for bringing the idea of an HPV mandate back in the future.
While mandatory HPV shots were rejected, the Board of Health requested that the Allegheny County Health Department create a “road map” to up vaccine rates and get the public involved in continued “discussion of vaccines.”
But I bet they’ve heard quite enough from the public for a while!
Not only did concerned parents fill the meeting room, but flooded the officials’ email boxes as well.
Some parents, like Ginger Hites, were ready to yank their kids out of school if the mandate had passed.
Hites knows from personal experience what Gardasil can do to perfectly healthy children.
Her daughter Maggie received two shots when she was 11. And soon after the second dose, Maggie experienced burning pain and joint stiffness that spread all over her body.
“It’s not (just) all these people around the world that have these reactions,” said Hites, “We live right here.”
But it doesn’t matter where you live. Gardasil maker Merck is trying to take its vaccine push to every state, county, and town in America.
Just a week ago I told you about the nationwide commercial Merck rolled out. The ad shows a flashback to childhood of two young adults (actors) with cancer asking their mom and dad if they knew there was a vaccine that could have prevented it.
Call it a coincidence, but the ad debuted right around the same time these health officials came out with their proposed mandate.
Since Day One I’ve been telling you heartbreaking stories of young girls and boys who have suffered seizures and paralysis and even died after getting these vaccines. The government-run Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has already paid families over $6 million to settle HPV shot injury claims.
And most of the cases are still pending.
To say that parents are somehow preventing their kids from living a “safe” cancer-free life if they’re against HPV shots is one of the most heartless ploys to come out of the vaccine propaganda machine yet.
Jessica Fitzgerald, who attended the meeting yesterday, perhaps put it best: “When there are risks, there has to be consent. Period.”
And Fitzgerald believes, as do many others, that officials will keep trying to force these vaccines on the public. But, she said, “We will keep fighting.”
And I say “amen” to that!
Sources:
“Allegheny County Board of Health rejects mandating HPV vaccine, Lauren Rosenblatt, July 13, 2016, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, post-gazette.com
