With caucus night & the primaries rapidly approaching, we need to look at where the candidates stand on the vaccine issue.
I know that Clinton & Sanders are for mandated vaccinations. Clinton has said that vaccines protect kids. Sanders has called unvaccinated kids "killers."
O'Malley - believes kids should be vaccinated. Unable to find out if he is for exemptions or not
De la Fuente - unable to find his stance
Trump has said - too many, too soon. Some of his employees take their kids in for their shots & they go from a normal child to a vaccine injured child. He believes we should have the choice.
Cruz - is for vaccinations
Carson believes that vaccines should be mandatory with no exemptions at all.
Rand Paul - Is for vaccinations but also for the freedom to say no.
Chris Christie - says kids should be vaccinated but parents should have the freedom to opt out.
Rubio - believes that kids should be vaccinated
Bush - believes kids should be vaccinated
Fiorina - Believes that parents should have a choice BUT thinks kids shouldn't be able to attend school unless they've had their shots
Gilmore - unable to find his stance
Huckabee - supports mandation
Kasich - unable to find his stance
Santorum - Believes kids should be vaccinated
As some of you have heard, Bloomberg from New York may be throwing his hat into the ring for a run in order to defeat Trump. Since New York City has mandated vaccines for all school children, it is obvious that he is for mandatory vaccines.
I'm spending the weekend with my son, his wife & my grandson. As I watch him snooze via the room camera, I thought I would take some time to write a blog article.
Those of you who were born in the 70's & earlier will remember the Tylenol scare of the early 80s. I remember this very vividly as I had just had a couple of teeth pulled in preparation for braces & the oral surgeon said to take Tylenol for pain. My grandmother threw out the bottle we had at home & there was none to be had anywhere in our small of town of 2500. We ended up getting a small prescription for pain killers for just a couple of days following the oral surgery.
So, how did this scare start? Lets start with watching a few news videos -
So, even tho J&J knew their product wasn't tampered with at the factory level. They assumed responsibility & pulled the product from the market in order to assure consumer safety & confidence in their market. After the scare, their product came back & is still the #1 pain reliever on the market today.. It is recommended by doctors, dentists & given to to women after childbirth that are dealing with dreadful cramps.
More recently, metal fragments were found in liquid childrens tytenol & federal charges came about as a result. Again, McNeil was involved & agreed to pay $25 million to resolve the case.
According to Medalerts which can scan the VAERS database, over 6,000 infants have died from vaccinations since 1989. Over, 9,800 had life threatening reactions to vaccines. Just over 73,000, the child/person did not recover. And over 11,000 are now disabled as a result of vaccination.
The government agency that oversees the VAERS database -
More than 10 million vaccines per year are given to children less than 1 year old, usually between 2 and 6 months of age. At this age, infants are at greatest risk for certain medical adverse events, including high fevers, seizures, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Some infants will experience these medical events shortly after a vaccination by coincidence.
"Underreporting" is one of the main limitations of passive surveillance systems, including VAERS. The term, underreporting refers to the fact that VAERS receives reports for only a small fraction of actual adverse events.
Under reporting of events - only a small fraction of events are ever reported. I heard from a pediatrician at the Autism One conference this last year that he called in a report in which the child had a life threatening reaction to a vaccine. He was told that they couldn't accept it because it couldn't be proven that the vaccine caused the problem.
7 people died as a result of taking Tylenol that may or may not have occurred at factory level & millions of bottles are recalled. But yet, thousands of kids are injured or die as a result of vaccination & they remain on the market.
Big pharma donates millions to lawmakers in order to get bills passed in their favor. I'm sure many of you were following the passage of SB277 in California with great interest like I did. I fought the passage of it as much as I could from Iowa.
Senator Pan who spearheaded the bill received over $95k from big pharma to get the bill passed. Other lawmakers received money as well. The income that big pharma has to receive from this bill passing is in the billions.
Money is winning out over science. Remember these names the next time you vote.
The children are not guinea pigs for big pharma. The children are not collateral damage for the greater good. The children are not profits for big pharma.
As a merchandiser, I put out hundreds of these every week in 3 separate Walmarts in Central Iowa & a Lowe's. I can't keep them on the shelf. I think it is absolutely amazing how this has caught on. I've picked up a few myself & my daughter has gotten into them as well.
But what are the health benefits of coloring? Truthfully, there are quite a few benefits.
First off, think back to when you were a kid. You would color & your frustrations with life would magically disappear. The frustrations would appear on the paper in front of you. Either as mad scribbles or a meticulously colored picture.
Studies has shown that coloring is a great stress reliever. In group discussions it helps people focus, if they fidget quite a bit coloring helps reduce fidgeting & the best part of coloring is that it changes your brainwaves by replacing negative thoughts with something positive.
Coloring also offers an alternative to meditation. A way to change your world for a time. I'm sure some of us moms who are stressed by life, work, family & all of the extra curricular activities enjoy a temporary get away from life & escape into a world of color.
Also by coloring, we use both of our cerebral hemispheres to mix & match colors, to use our vision & fine motor skills .
Psychologist Antoni MartÃnez recommends a quiet environment & chill music while coloring. Personally, I prefer to have 80's music in the background.
Ok, you have your adult coloring books in front of you & the largest box of colored pencils that you can find on the shelf. You look at the colorless picture in front of you. Where do you start, what colors do you choose.
This color psychology page gives you a pretty good idea on your personality based on the colors they choose -
Associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery.
A mysterious color associated with fear and the unknown (black holes).
Usually has a negative connotation (blacklist, black humor, ‘black death’).
Denotes strength and authority; it is considered to be a very formal, elegant, and prestigious color.
The symbol of grief.
There are many free coloring pages available online thru google images if you don't want to fight the holiday crowds for one of those long sought after coloring books.
Until next time, be happy & color your way thru the holidays,
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