Mumps is a nasty virus - it can cause fever, headache, and painfully swollen glands. In serious cases, it can cause meningitis, deafness, and even testicular inflammation. Mumps is also easily spread through mucus: if an infected person sneezes, coughs, or even talks, they can pass it on.
For these and other reasons, most Americans are vaccinated against mumps through the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) shot, which is also one of the more dangerous vaccinations. But in the early 2000s, researchers began to notice an alarming pattern: those vaccinated against mumps were still becoming ill with it - at alarming rates.
This worrisome trend is accelerating: in April 2014, the New Jersey Department of Health warned of an outbreak of mumps at the Stevens Institute of Technology. Eight cases of mumps were confirmed - yet all of those infected had been fully vaccinated with two documented doses of the MMR shot.
What's going on here? Is the vaccine losing its efficacy - or was it never effective in the first place? There are a number of explanations:
- The effectiveness of the MMR vaccine in preventing mumps is - according to Dr. William Schaffer, a pro-vaccine researcher at Vanderbilt University - "not so good." A CDC study of a 2009 - 2010 mumps outbreak in the northeastern US found that a full 77% of those sickened in 2009 outbreak had been vaccinated.
- The effectiveness of the mumps vaccine depends heavily on the strain contracted. According to a 2008 FDA study, the vaccine is "0 to 33%" effective on the Rubini strain. Even so, this study, like other government studies, blamed outbreaks on low vaccination rates instead of on low vaccine effectiveness.
- A whistleblower case unsealed in 2012 suggests that Merck, the producer of the MMR vaccine, might have misrepresented the results of research on the vaccine's efficacy from the start. The case, initiated by a pair of former Merck researchers, claims that Merck manipulated the results of clinical trials in order to keep its exclusive right to manufacture the vaccine. By claiming a fabricated 95% effectiveness rate, Merck allegedly defrauded the US government, causing it to buy 4 million doses of "mislabeled and misbranded" MMRs vaccines. The suit also claims this helped spark two major mumps outbreaks, and that "the ultimate victims here are the millions of children who every year are being injected with a mumps vaccine that is not providing them with an adequate level of protection."
Conventional medicine openly acknowledges the dangers of the MMR vaccine, yet still decrees that its benefits outweigh its risks. When the evidence clearly dictates that there is less benefit to the mumps vaccine than thought, the usual arguments at least need to be revised.
Some observers believe that the risks from this vaccine are magnified by giving three shots in one rather than individually. That idea deserves more attention. The usual reason conventional medicine prefers to give a lot of shots all at once is that they worry they won't be able to get parents to come in more often. This is not a proper justification for exposing kids to unnecessary risks.
When too many vaccines are given within a short period of time, the body may experience an immune system overload, as discussed in J. Barthelow Classen's evidence review of vaccinations published in the peer-reviewed journal Molecular and Genetic Medicine. In his review, Dr. Classen discusses the data supporting a relationship between an epidemic of inflammatory diseases and vaccine-induced immune system overstimulation, as well as the evidence linking immune overload with epidemics of diabetes (both type 1 and type 2) and obesity. Government officials simply ignore these legitimate concerns and keep adding more vaccinations all together at ever younger ages, as revealed by the CDC's busy vaccine schedule.
Despite all this evidence, the government still refuses to comment on or conduct further research on the vaccine schedule or the ineffectiveness of the MMR vaccine for mumps. There's no way to know why for sure, but one possible reason is that - after spending millions on a multiyear contract with Merck - they're attempting to avoid another embarrassing repeat of the Tamiflu scandal, where the government spent $1.5 billion on flu treatments that were found to be no more effective than aspirin.
Of course, those who choose not to vaccinate their children are still the laughingstock of the mainstream media. Just this month, The Daily Show aired a scathing segment mocking parents who choose not to vaccinate.
Comment: Saying no to vaccines appears on The Daily Show
Weston A. Price Chapter leader and popular blogger Sarah Pope of Healthy Home Economist has left people on both sides of the vaccine issue in awe after her appearance onThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Her segment is actually with Samantha Bee, and her pro-vaccine opponent is the ubiquitous propagandist Dr. Paul Offit. Four-and-a-half hours of interview were carefully chiseled into a few minutes of carefully selected phrases.
It took guts for Sarah to agree to share why she doesn't vaccinate. While there was a risk in being edited, national viewers were finally exposed to someone stating that "herd immunity" through vaccination is a myth. There was a clear bent against people who don't vaccinate, but in the end both sides were ridiculed.
Action Alert! Contact the Centers for Disease Control and ask them to do more research on mumps, the MMR shot, and the vaccine schedule.
Every time I read about a disease outbreak, it turns out that anywhere between 50-100% of the infected had been fully vaccinated. Yet the official claim is still that vaccines are 'efficient'.
This is like putting a net over your head during rain, and while standing there completely drenched, claiming that the net is an efficient protection against rain.
I imagine this will be a huge scandal one day (unless it gets buried by something even bigger, like that $2.3 trillion did in 2001). But I kind of understand that nobody in the government (nevermind Big Pharma) wants to be the one to admit the facts. The shitstorm that would follow could be pretty deadly for that person. So I assume that even if they're aware of the facts, they just want to finish their term in office without trouble and leave it to whoever comes next. That is, of course, putting aside the pressure from Big Pharma and other things. My point is, even if someone in the government wanted to admit the facts, I doubt they would have the guts to face the consequences. And it would be a big can of worms. "If they lied to us about something this big and the scam went on for decades, what else are they lying about?"
The more and the longer you lie, the more impossible it becomes to admit the truth. Though in the end, each of those lies becomes another nail in the coffin of a psychopath. That's apparently the limitation of their 'intelligence'.