IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN the commercial in which GlaxoSmithKline has ripped a page out of 1930’s Nazi Germany, you won’t believe your eyes. In this commercial, and in associated propaganda posters, grandparents are demonized and turned into wolves – leering at their own grandchildren.
Here, non-vaccinated grandparents are depicted as animals, less than human, and as a dire threat to a helpless infant. With the insinuation that grandparents could be responsible for any case of infantile pertussis infection, the message pitches family member against family member. Joseph Goebbels (Nazi propaganda Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945) would be proud that their tactic of de-humanizing part of the population is alive and well in 2017.
Yes, pertussis infection is contagious. What GSK has left out, however, is the fact that individuals who vaccinated can be turned into silent carriers, based on two reasons.
(1) The vaccine itself, not low vaccination rates, can lead to persistent asymptomatic pertussis infection.
(2) As a result of (1), the TDaP/DTaP vaccination program has failed. That’s not my opinion. That is scientific consensus:
In the commercial, we see that the grandmother has symptoms (a slight cough or sniffle). This is meant to imply that an infection is the threat. In reality, asymptomatic wild-type pertussis carriers are the threat, and they are created by exposure of the immune system to the failed vaccine.
The realization that TDaP/DTaP has failed has led to experimental use of TDaP (with no safety or efficacy data: Source: CDC) during pregnancy. It is “hoped” that it will prove effective and safe. Studies after the introduction of TDaP during pregnancy are biased: they removed (excluded) women who were at risk of complications. These women are not screened out of the clinical vaccination program, however, and this represents a consistent failure of translational research on vaccines. The FDA stands by while vaccines never tested on a given population are applied, and they are thereby complicit and responsible for the fetal deaths and other serious adverse events, such as autism, that can result from maternal immune activation during pregnancy.
New York Times Calls for Citizens to Break Federal Law
Today, The NYT ran a piece asking the question “Can I Spread the Word About an Unvaccinated Child?” and the author counsels the public to go ahead, spread the word about unvaccinated children. Each person, and their children, are entitled to medical privacy under the The HIPAA Privacy Rule, which establishes national standards to protect individuals’ medical information.
Meanwhile, in 2017 Germany, Kindergartens must report their parents to the State if they have opted out of vaccination (Source: Reuters):
The Nazi propaganda protocols are well in place. Turn your enemy (the informed, non-vaccinating public) into animals, and then turn people against each other. The next step is the argue that those who do not vaccinate do not have the same rights as those who do vaccinate. Luckily, 48/50 states in the US allow non-medical exemptions for children whose parents are informed of the actual risks associated with vaccines.
Here are some additional reminders of disgusting Nazi propaganda posters depicting members of the Jewish faith into sub-humans. Remember, the TdaP/DTaP not only fails to protect individuals from infection – it can create silent carriers. The logical outcome of continued use of TDaP in any population is a pertussis epidemic. Here a a Scientific American story on the problem:
With symptoms, infected family members could know they should stay away from baby, and they could seek treatment. Pertussis infection is curable via antibiotics.
With the vaccine, family members could unknowingly spread pertussis to their newborns.
We don’t need propaganda. We need CDC and ACIP to adult, and pull TdaP/DTaP from the schedule. Better yet, GSK should pull it themselves. If CDC/ACIP or GSK won’t, we need the FDA to ban the vaccine, forcing the development of safer, more effective means of controlling pertussis.
In the meantime, babies are at risk of pertussis infection from the vaccinated, silent carriers, and CDC/ACIP, FDA, and GSK – NOT grandparents – are responsible for the associated morbidity and mortality.
-James Lyons-Weiler, PhD
Sept 26, 2017, Pittsburgh, PA
