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Shining a Light on Government Betrayal<\/em><\/strong><\/p> The date of this event, November 14, 2019, is noteworthy, as it was the 33rd<\/sup> anniversary of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA). I wrote extensively about this Act a few years ago<\/a>, as it was one of the first shocking things I learned about after my children suffered their injuries. Though most folks still don\u2019t know this Act exists, the original legislation did a number of significant things, including:<\/p> Unfortunately, the Act\u2019s measures to improve vaccine safety, guarantee informed consent, reduce the numbers of injuries and deaths created by our national vaccine program, and preserve the public\u2019s right to trial were all an orchestrated scam. Barbara Loe Fisher, parent activist and founder of the National Vaccine Information Center, worked with Congress on this Act in order to ensure these protective measures were included. At the V.I.E. Event, Ms. Fisher laid it out for the crowd: <\/p> \u201cWe had been fighting for so long to protect the Act from industry greed and government overreach that we never saw the betrayal coming. On November 14, 1986, we did not know that the very same lawmakers sponsoring the Act were already working behind the scenes to dismantle it. This law, while acknowledging vaccines cause injuries and deaths, has ultimately been used to give vaccine makers a free pass from any liability for harm caused by their product. To make matters worse, all measures for ensuring vaccine safety were completely watered down, and what remained of the safety mandate has been completely ignored \u2013 for 33 years<\/a>. <\/p> The full burden of vaccine injuries and deaths are left on the families\u2019 shoulders. With no legal accountability , this law incentivized drug companies to rush more and more vaccines to market regardless of their safety profile<\/a>. This is the antithesis of what was promised to the public in 1986.<\/p> Shining a Light on The Epidemic<\/em><\/strong><\/p> Throughout the Event, my friend Leigh noted that the thousands of us standing there were barely the tip of the iceberg <\/a>when it comes to the number of people truly affected by vaccine injury, and she\u2019s absolutely right. You don\u2019t have to dig very deep to find that the \u2018one in a million<\/em>\u2019 line touted by public health officials and regurgitated by the media is a false assurance that grossly misleads the public. <\/p> Consider that roughly 35,000 adverse reactions, including permanent injuries and deaths, are reported to the Department of Health and Human Services each year<\/a>, but an HHS-funded study found that these reports account for less than one percent of actual adverse events<\/a> – a proverbial drop in the bucket. Additionally, this same federal study found that vaccine injury ratios are actually closer to 1 in 39 than 1 in a million \u2013 that\u2019s quite a discrepancy<\/a>. <\/p> The\u00a0Vaxxed Bus which provides a jaw-dropping visual of the impact of vaccine injury in our country. In just a few years, more than 8,600 signatures representing lives destroyed or lost due to vaccine injury have accumulated on its surface. If vaccine injuries were truly one in a million, given that there are roughly 325,000,000 people in the U.S., that bus should have no more than 325 or so names on it.<\/p> Shining a Light on Corruption<\/em><\/strong><\/p> Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., environmental attorney and founder of Children\u2019s Health Defense<\/a>, stated during his rousing speech that the companies we are supposed to blindly trust with vaccines are the same companies who have been proven in court time and time again to be utterly corrupt. These four companies, over the past 10 years, have collectively paid $35 billion in \u201cdamages, penalties and fines for defrauding regulators, falsifying science, lying to doctors, lying to the American people, ghost-writing science, and killing people.\u201d “The idea that these money-hungry, corrupt, deceptive companies that have broken law after law put their ruthless practices aside to practice altruistic medicine when it comes to vaccines is illogical at best.”<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure> This is the industry that brought us the opiate crisis that kills \u201cmore American children every year than the Vietnam War killed in 20 years.\u201d He also reminded us that Merck, the largest vaccine manufacturer in the US , was responsible for Vioxx \u2013 a headache pill that they knew caused heart attacks \u2013 that killed 500,000 Americans.<\/p> The glaring difference, however, between the opioid crisis, the deadly Vioxx scandal, and the vaccine injury epidemic is that the pharmaceutical companies are accountable legally and socially for their lies and fraud when it come to the two former atrocities, while they escape – profits in hand – for the latter. The idea that these money-hungry, corrupt, deceptive companies that have broken law after law put their ruthless practices aside to practice altruistic medicine when it comes to vaccines is illogical at best.<\/p> \u201cThis industry owns these guys. These people are supposed to be representing us, they\u2019re supposed to be protecting our children, and instead they\u2019re working for this industry.\u201d<\/p>Robert F Kennedy, Jr.<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure> In 1986, vaccines were a $1 billion industry. Since gaining their freedom from liability and rushing so many additional vaccines, vaccine combinations, and boosters to market, vaccines have grown into a $50 billion industry and are projected to approach $60 billion by 2020<\/a>.<\/p> As Mr. Kennedy pointed out, the bigger money is made because \u201cthey have persuaded the American public to trade a series of minor, mild, self-limiting childhood rashes for a chronic disease epidemic like the world has never known.\u201d <\/p>
Then in the early 1990s, Congress added more amendments to weaken the vaccine safety provisions and allow the Department of Health and Justice to systematically gut the VICP with rule making so fewer children would be compensated. And all along, the vaccine safety studies parents were promised were never done.\u201d<\/p>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/texansforvaccinechoice.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Two-Page-Spread-Inside-updated-1024x665.jpg\")
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Mr. Kennedy also brought attention to the fact that our U.S. Congressmen are \u201cthe indentured servants of this corrupt industry”, as there are \u201cfive times as many pharmaceutical lobbyists in that building as there are elected representatives, and they give more money to our elected representatives than any other industry.\u201d Pharma pours twice as much money into lobbying efforts as the oil and gas industry and four times as much as Defense and Aerospace. \u201cThis industry owns these guys. These people are supposed to be representing us, they\u2019re supposed to be protecting our children, and instead they\u2019re working for this industry.\u201d<\/p>