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The TDaP Vaccine – What They Aren’t Telling You

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vaccine photoI’ve been doing a slow burn about this and I just can’t keep it in any longer. Last night I got yet another voice message from the school district about the requirement for kids in 7th – 12th grades to be immunized against Whooping Cough and get the TDaP (Diphteria, Tetanus, and Pertussis) vaccine. The message stated that the immunization is required and that students will not be allowed to attend school without it.

 

This is not true.

 

Before I explain that let me state that I am not anti-vaccine. I am against the way they are currently administered. I am against dictating to parents that they have their kids immunized without educating them about all options and alternatives. I am against implying that there are no options and alternatives by only providing partial information (My mother would call this a lie of omission – still a lie).

 

I would also like to say that I do not lay the blame for Matthew’s Autism on vaccines. I do believe that they may be one of the variables that collided to cause it. Matthew was born early and suffered respiratory distress. I suspect there are some family members who may have been on the Autism spectrum somewhere. I also think that the vaccines may have been a trigger. When I watch early videos of Matthew he clearly digresses and he did receive vaccines during that period of time. He had an ear infection when he received that vaccine, too.  Makes me wonder.

 

I explain all of this so that you have an understanding of why I feel so strongly about the “requirement” that students get the TDaP vaccine.

 

Here are my concerns:
1. The claim is that there is a Whooping Cough epidemic. So why are they using the TDaP vaccine that includes Tetanus and Diphtheria?
2. Matthew hasn’t had so much as a cold in years. He has not been exposed to Whooping Cough. If he is exposed then I will keep him quarantined until the incubation period has passed and he has medical clearance to return. This is a requirement of the school and I have no problem with it, it is common sense.
3. The law states that parents may choose to not have their kids vaccinated based on personal beliefs or they may get a statement from a doctor stating that the vaccine is not safe due to medical circumstances. But they don’t tell you this in any of the information they send home, give in phone calls, in the news or anywhere. You really have dig to find it.

 

And this last point is my biggest concern. I listened to the message last night very carefully. At no point was it mentioned that a waiver was available. It stated clearly that students without the TDaP vaccine would not be allowed to attend school. There is a bigger issue here than a Whooping Cough epidemic and required vaccines.

 

Here is a link explaining the Personal Beliefs exemption and a link to the waiver form (for personal beliefs or a Doctor’s exemption).

 

Agree or disagree? I’d love to hear your thoughts. You can either leave a comment or send me an email via the Contact page.

 

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Important Information on the Reid-Obama Health Care Bill

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Senate Health Bill Raises Taxes on Families of Special Needs Children

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — There are 18 separate tax hikes in the Reid-Obama healthcare bill. One of them caps the amount that can be deferred in Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) at $2500 per year (a similar provision was included in the Pelosi-Obama health bill and written about by Congressman Cathy McMorris-Rogers, R-Was., for National Review Online). There is currently no limit to how much can be saved, though all monies must be used by the end of the year. Employers may put a cap in place for their employees, but this would put a cap in federal tax law for the first time. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), 30 million American families use an FSA.

* For most people, the $2500 cap won’t be noticed. FSAs tend to be used for things like small deductibles, co-payments, eyeglasses, over-the-counter medicines, and laser eye surgery. The amount deferred in the typical FSA is probably much less than $2500 today
* There is one group of FSA owners for whom this new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of special needs children. There are thousands of families with special needs children in the United States, and many of them use FSAs to pay for special needs education. Tuition rates at one leading school that teaches special needs children in Washington, D.C. (National Child Research Center) can easily exceed $14,000 per year.
* Under tax rules, FSA dollars can be used to pay for this type of special needs education.

According to IRS Publication 502, Medical Expenses:

You can include in medical expenses fees you pay on a doctor’s recommendation for a child’s tutoring by a teacher who is specially trained and qualified to work with children who have learning disabilities caused by mental or physical impairments, including nervous system disorders.

You can include in medical expenses the cost (tuition, meals, and lodging) of attending a school that furnishes special education to help a child to overcome learning disabilities. A doctor must recommend that the child attend the school. Overcoming the learning disabilities must be a principal reason for attending the school, and any ordinary education received must be incidental to the special education provided. Special education include teaching Braille to a visually impaired person; teaching lip reading to a hearing-impaired person, or giving remedial language training to correct a condition caused by a birth defect.

Americans for Tax Reform is a non-partisan coalition of taxpayers and taxpayer groups who oppose all tax increases. For more information or to arrange an interview please contact John Kartch at (202) 785-0266 or by email at jkartch@atr.org.

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Information on new health care bill

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Note: Becky Willis asked me to pass this information to our Village. Following is the email I received from her. If anyone else has any information or ideas on this, please post a comment. Thanks! ~Sandy

As you know, I have a son with autism and this health care bill scares me.  I listened to the interview with Fred Thomsonand there is much more than just page 425.  We must contact our congress.  Becky

Page 425 of HealthCare BILL

O.K.  folks – I ‘think’ this will ‘shake us up’ – read and listen to this Interview – “IF” this does not cause every red-blooded American to contact their Representatives, I don’t know what will!!  It’s time for ACTION!  Americans!!
Both Democrats and Republicans beware.

(If this doesn’t make your blood boil…. nothing will!!)

Page 425 of Health Care Bill – Listen to this interview Fred Thompson’s Radio Show interviewing Betsy McCaughey (pronounced Mc Coy).

Fred Thompson: Interviews

On page 425 it says in black and white that EVERYONE on Social Security, (This includes all Senior Citizens and those on SSI) will go to MANDATORY counseling every 5 years to learn and to choose from ways to end your suffering (and your life).  Health care will be denied based on age.  500 Billion will be cut from Seniors healthcare.  The only way for that to happen is to drastically cut health care, the oldest and the sickest will be cut first.  Paying for your own care will not be an option.

Now, CALL YOUR REPS IN WASHINGTON!!!!!
Tell them to read page 425 if they don’t read anything else.
Surely some of them have parents.

“ON PAGE 425 OF OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE BILL, the Federal Government will require EVERYONE who is on Social Security to undergo a counseling session every 5 years with the objective being that they will explain to them just how to end their own life earlier.  Yes…They are going to push SUICIDE to cut medicare spending!”

Fred Thompson: Interviews

(BE SURE TO CLICK ON THE ABOVE LINK!)

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