Quickly! Someone alert Chicken Little because once again, the sky is falling! It’s actually been falling for a few weeks here in South Carolina where I live. There’s a measles outbreak in this area and the media has been dispensing measles-related drama for about a month or so at least. The local evening news has been updating the number of people infected (last figure I heard was 38) on a nightly basis as if we are all expected to “shelter in place” until it is over.
So what is the deal with measles and why is the media hyping it here so often? Well, the cynic in me believes it helps Big Pharma sell vaccines and you better believe that every measles-related story I have seen over the last few weeks always ends with advice that includes getting vaccinated to protect against measles and halt the spread. The trouble is that it is hard to believe any medical advice coming from mainstream media after they bent over backwards to promote the Covid jabs and to some extent, still are.
As I have revealed in the past on my Substack, I did not get the Covid jab and I am very thankful that I chose not to. I have friends that got the jab and soon regretted it but I do not know anyone who regrets not getting it. I have no trouble believing the numerous reports of failing health following the Covid jab, including “turbo cancers” that are affecting younger people who “shouldn’t” be dealing with cancer in the high numbers being seen.
I decided to check in with AI regarding measles because I wanted to know how dangerous it really is. The local media sure is treating it like it’s a serious disease. According to AI, measles is “has always been a serious disease with the potential for severe complications.”
Well, many things have the “potential” for severe complications. If you cut your finger it has the potential to get infected and kill you if you do not get the proper treatment. Growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, I seem to recall that measles was pretty common in kids and I think I even had it myself. I have no memory of anyone dying from complications related to measles but I sure do recall it being pretty routine for kids to get it and I recall it not being treated more seriously than chickenpox at the time.
Granted, my memory is far from infallible but I am pretty sure I would remember hearing about measles killing lots of American kids. I don’t think that happened when I was growing up and that leads me to believe that it is not quite as serious as the media (and AI) would like to have us believe.
And here’s why I do not recall hearing about any kids dying from measles when I was a kid. It just didn’t happen very often. In fact, it appears that the average number of deaths each year from measles was between 400 and 500 from 1956 to 1960. For comparison, consider that in 1968 approximately 5,000 children died in traffic accidents.
It seems actual data regarding annual pediatric traffic fatalities during that time period is not available but 5,000 was the estimated number AI came up with based on the data that was available. Assuming the number is accurate it seems to suggest that a child alive during that time period was about 10 times more likely to die from a traffic accident than from measles.
I suppose that is why I do not recall it being treated as a serious disease during that time period. I did not know any kids who died in traffic accidents when I was growing up so it is even less likely that I would have known any kids that died from measles.
I’ve been quietly enduring the media pearl-clutching over the measles cases here for around a month if not a little longer. Today, however, I saw a news story online that inspired me to break my silence on this issue. The headline in question reads as follows: Holiday travel could lead to increase in SC measles cases, health official warns. Does that sound familiar?
It surely sounds familiar to me. I recall all the warnings from the Covid Cartel back around 2020 when some of our relatives bought into the hype and refused to gather with us for Thanksgiving and Christmas. By then I was convinced most of what we were being told about Covid were lies and I wasn’t willing to abide by any of their “lockdown” restrictions or recommendations. That made it particularly disturbing for me to see my relatives believing all the lies.
That was what sprang to mind immediately when I saw that measles-related headline this morning. “You’re not going to pull that again!” I thought to myself. I don’t expect that anyone is actually working on a lockdown plan due to measles here in South Carolina and I would admit that I may have over-reacted a bit at the time but the memories of the Covid Scam are still very fresh for some of us.
Regardless of what the media or AI claim with respect to the seriousness of measles, I choose to fall back on my experience as a kid when it seemed like everyone got it at some point prior to their teen years. Since I know of not a single person that died from measles, that casts doubt on the claims that “The measles vaccine has been incredibly effective at preventing the disease. It is the main reason why measles is no longer a common childhood illness and why the number of deaths and complications has dropped so dramatically.” Thanks, AI, but that smells like Big Pharma propaganda to me.
Just as there are those that claim the measles vaccine has saved many lives, there are those that say that it has no benefits and actually has a better chance of causing illness than preventing it. The folks at Children’s Health Defense claim that the risk of death and permanent disability from the MMR Vaccine is far greater than that of measles.
It helps to remember that organizations like Children’s Health Defense are not receiving millions of dollars from Big Pharma like the mainstream media does. If you watch even a little TV these days you’ll know how hard it is to watch during certain times of the day and not see advertising from a pharmaceutical corporation. During the network evening news broadcasts (which I hardly ever watch) you’ll see that Big Pharma is far and away the primary sponsor.
Reently, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor and public health expert who has been nominated as NIH director under the Trump administration, had this to say on the matter: “Have you asked yourself why there are ads on TV for pharmaceutical products that maybe three people on earth really need? “I saw an ad once in an airport — a huge ad, I don’t know how much it cost the pharmaceutical company — for a cancer that 50 people a year get. What is the purpose of those ads? The purpose of those ads are to make sure that the media, where they put those ads, do not criticize the pharmaceutical companies in ways that they otherwise would do. Essentially, it’s a bribe. So the press then serves large political interests and large corporate interests.”
I believe Dr. Bhattacharya is exactly right and that is why I find it impossible to believe a single thing that comes from the pharmaceutical industry or anywhere else that is part of the modern day Medical-Industrial Complex. Virtually all of their efforts are for on sole purpose and that is to enrich themselves with more profit. I don’t rule out even more nefarious purposes that some others believe but so far, I have not been able to fully accept things that evil as truth. It’s hard to accept that humans could be that utterly evil and actually want to harm their fellow human begins in such a horrific way.
I’ll treat this latest hype over measles the same way I treat most of what comes from the mainstream media and that is with the assumption that virtually everything they say is questionable at best.
If I still had small children I would keep vaccinations to an absolute minimum and very possibly prevent them from getting any vaccinations of any kind. We were all born with an immune system for a reason and we should rely on it without subjecting ourselves to the potential of serious side effects and long-term health problems that vaccines most likely contribute to. And yes, I believe that includes autism and no amount of Big Phrama-funded “science” will change my mind.