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In reply to the discussion: The Year I Didn't Get A Flu Shot [View all]Major Nikon
(36,925 posts)148. What you posted not only doesn't prove your assertion, it contradicts it
I will quote you directly:
Because of the vaccine schedule, children were receiving higher cumulative doses than the government's scientists had determined were safe.
Notice how you wrote were while the FDA says could have in the very section you emphasized.
Also from your same source:
Available data has been reviewed in several public forums including the Workshop on Thimerosal, held in Bethesda in August 1999 and sponsored by the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, two meetings of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the CDC, held in October 1999 and June 2000, and by the Institute of Medicine's Immunization Safety Review Committee in July 2001 and February 2004. Data reviewed did not demonstrate convincing evidence of toxicity from doses of thimerosal used in vaccines. In case reports of accidental high-dose exposures in humans to thimerosal or ethyl mercury toxicity was demonstrated only at exposures that were 100 or 1000 times that found in vaccines.
https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/thimerosal-vaccines-questions-and-answers
Thimerosal was never a real problem, period. The only problem was from the hysteria that resulted from people who spread false information about it. The result is vaccines which should be cheap to produce are more expensive which effectively kills people in areas that have to choose how many people they can vaccinate on limited budgets.
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Your position is fine...at least until the day that there is more than scant evidence
stopbush
Oct 2019
#81
I did cherry pick the numbers - I used those that created the LOWEST threshold
Ms. Toad
Oct 2019
#170
Same here. Haven't had a flu shot in 25+ yrs. only had the flu once in all that time
Thekaspervote
Oct 2019
#20
Yup. I've smoked a pack a day since 1984 and haven't gotten cancer or emphysema.
LanternWaste
Oct 2019
#112
interesting...I also got the worst flu of my entire life right at New Years time
qazplm135
Oct 2019
#4
Before they eliminated mercury from childhood vaccines, the COMBINED amount some babies
pnwmom
Oct 2019
#50
Yes, there was a problem with thimerosal. Because of the vaccine schedule, children were
pnwmom
Oct 2019
#145
No, there's no contradiction. They determined that, based on the babies weight and
pnwmom
Oct 2019
#149
The retroactive determination didn't change the fact that using the best facts they had AT THE TIME
pnwmom
Oct 2019
#157
They didn't have a standard for ethylmercury then, so they used the standard of the other form,
pnwmom
Oct 2019
#162
From the FDA: "The US Public Health Service decided that as much mercury as possible
pnwmom
Oct 2019
#168
How does this not support what I've already said? There is no contradiction at all.
pnwmom
Oct 2019
#172
That isn't the point she was making. Since the vaccine IS available in a mercury-free form,
pnwmom
Oct 2019
#169
Wrong - there is mercury in multi-dose vaccines - single dose is mercury free
womanofthehills
Oct 2019
#129
Adults check their facts, before ridiculing people who have their facts straight
Ms. Toad
Oct 2019
#101
For a vaccine as ineffective as the influenza vaccine the participation required is more than 100%
Ms. Toad
Oct 2019
#134
Didn't take it for 40 years, got the flu once. Taken it last 2 yrs. I'm around people post chemo
flying_wahini
Oct 2019
#43
My husband never gets a flu shot. Usually he's fine. Until this past spring.
a la izquierda
Oct 2019
#98
The best deterrent to getting the flu or a cold is washing your hands frequently
YOHABLO
Oct 2019
#174