Measles is a highly contagious infection. During the poverty of the 18th and 19th century, following the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions, it killed many thousands of people. However, following the public health reforms from the second half of the 20th century onwards it declined. By the 1950's and 1960's conventional medical textbooks described it as a mild condition. My mum almost certainly took me to a 'measles party' so that I could contract measles 'naturally' through contact with other children who had contracted the illness. There was little or no fear.
However, when the measles vaccines were introduced, and everything changed!
This is why, in the UK during the last few days, the NHS has begun a new measles campaign. BBC News has explained why:
"Millions of parents in England are being contacted by the NHS and urged to make an appointment to have their children vaccinated against measles, as cases rise across the country. More than 3.4 million children aged under 16 are unprotected and at risk of becoming ill, NHS England says".
So the message is that there are 'millions of people' out here who are 'unprotected', and they urgently need to make an appointment to be vaccinated.
Otherwise, we were told, the vulnerable could suffer from a number of serious measles complications, such as pneumonia, blindness, seizures and meningitis. Babies, young children, pregnant women and the 'immunocompromised' were all particularly vulnerable to these serious side effects.
Predictably, the rest of the mainstream media carried exactly the same tale. "Measles is a nasty infection, so this is serious" the Guardian stated. "Measles cases are rising - and its about more than vaccine misinformation". And every other media outlet has relayed the same tale, often using identical language, and the the same story and statistics. It is a message co-ordinated by the pharmaceutical medical establishment!
So no more measles parties. No more medical textbooks stating that measles
is a mild disease. We have to be afraid, very afraid.
Nor was there much information about the size of the problem either, except that there have been 200-300 cases of measles reported in England in the last few months. Yes, 300 cases constitutes a serious medical problem! Is this true?
Is the panic really about just 300 cases? The NHS is struggling; it is the process of complete financial collapse, and complete medical failure; it complains constantly that it is in need of more resources, both personnel and financial; that it cannot cope with the longest ever waiting lists; all chronic diseases are now running at unprecedented levels, and rising. And yet, despite all this, the NHS is creating this (unnecessary?) campaign - over a few hundred cases of measles!
But more important than this, in my view, is that there is an important new message coming from the Conventional Medical Establishment which needs to be addressed.
Only vaccines can provide us with immunity from measles.
The state of our immune system is not considered, or even mentioned; presumably it has no role to play!
So this is where we now find ourselves. Natural immunity is something the NHS, and the wider pharmaceutical establishment, no longer considers. This might be a campaign to save us from measles; but there is no NHS advice about the need to support and strengthen our immune system, something we could all do, right now, immediately. It would appear that only the immunity the NHS is concerned about concerns vaccines, at whatever cost, and not natural immunity, which is virtually free!
Is this clever vaccine promotion? The campaign will certainly make people scared, and as a direct result of this fear it will ensure people get the message. Fear of ill-health always sells drugs. And when fear is accompanied by the usual "safe and effective" vaccine message, it is a winner. Especially if we are then led to believe that they are the only thing that can save us from this dreadful, life-threatening illness.
The campaign emphasises the historical importance of the MMR vaccine in reducing the incidence and impact of measles; it even said to have 'eradicated' the disease at some point. It never did any such thing. I wrote about this 3 years ago, January 2021, in this blog - "The Myths of Conventional Medical Success: conquering measles". Simply explained, the number of measles cases, and its seriousness, had been consistently reduced from the mid-19th century onwards, largely the result of public health improvements. By the time the measles vaccines were introduced numbers were already low, and it was no long considered to be a 'killer' disease. And the vaccine made absolutely no impact on this reducing trend.
Anyone who wants to escape these regular 'epidemics', the frequent scare stories and moral panics, need to resurrect the message, expounded by the medical textbooks, and practised by the wise mother's of the 1950's, - that the secret to protecting ourselves from measles, and good health generally, comes from building and maintaining a strong immune system. This is a comparatively simple task, one that each of us should be doing every day of our lives. Despite medical propaganda.....
Vaccine immunity has little or nothing to offer natural immunity