1) Know the tactics they use on you.
2) Understand just how little most people who vaccinate their babies actually understand about the real risks of either the disease or the vaccine in terms of what they are doing.
The DVD starts out by
ASSURING YOU, not once,
but three times,
that vaccines WILL protect
your children against ALL these serious
diseases (and that
they are tested and safe).
That message is constantly reinforced
right through the DVD…
Right at the end of the video, is the
comment that these vaccines, “protect
your children from these diseases
throughout their lives.”
Pro vaccine people, please read those
sentences again. And again, if
necessary. The MoH DVD says: ALL
the vaccines WILL protect your children
against ALL these serious diseases
throughout their lives.
Okay? Ad nauseum.
Make it
your mantra, please!
And don't contradict it.
So how is it then, that, in the DVD, lots of parents start expressing concerns that people who don’t vaccinate will bring back epidemics into the community? One father even said that when the number of unvaccinated children grows, “you lose your group immunity”?
Did he miss the main message of the
DVD?
Did he perhaps not listen?
Perhaps these parents really didn’t
understand those two words… “WILL
PROTECT”.
Why is it, that the Ministry of
Health misses the huge cognitive
disconnect that the belief expressed by
many people, that unvaccinated children
would cause the vaccinated to lose their
group immunity, is
a contradiction to their own core
message that vaccines will protect their
children right through their lives.
Right here ... in their own DVD? Either
vaccines protect, or they don't. Which
is it to be, MoH?
Or is this a deliberately
framed message in order to
generate an illogical holier-than-thou
type indignation, pitting parental
vaccine defenders against those who say
no, and refuse to go with the
flow? Hopefully even provaccine parents
who see this DVD have brains enough to
see the stupidity of this contradiction.
No doubt, Wiremu Grace from ImagiN8tive
Productions, and Heather Kizito from
Zebra Associates asked loaded questions
provided to them by MOH, which were
worded in such a way to get the
‘responses’ wanted to accompany the
simplistic MoH drawings.
Perhaps these parents didn’t know the whole "script", and had no idea what the end result would be? Maybe they did, but didn't really "think" about the implications of what they were saying.
Another piece of scripted insinuated
dogma we are asked to believe, is that
it will
ONLY be the
unvaccinated who then bring in disease,
and spread it to the vaccinated.
Perhaps the Ministry of Health can get
away with such porkies, for the simple
reason that NOT one person filmed for
the DVD would have realised that
whooping cough in this country is
primarily contracted and spread via the
fully vaccinated majority. Exactly how
many MeNZB vaccinated people still got
meningitis?
This country is littered with parents
who can tell you about their measles
vaccinated children who still got
measles.
The description of the immune system is insulting, but fits the current IMAC/MoH modus operandi of KISS (Keep it simple, stupid!). Looking at this DVD, you’d be left believing that the only part of the immune system that really matters, is antibodies.
There are, to the astute listener
some very revealing comments in this
DVD, which I’m surprised the MoH left in
there. Like those saying that
vaccination ...“is just what
you do”…"it's
not something we really had to think
about...". There were a
whole swag of comments, which to the
truly informed show that the parents
interviewed had NOT taken the time to
seriously research the issues.
A nurse talks to the pakeha mother and
maori father about the vaccines, the
times they are given, the National
Immunisation register, points to some
things in a pamphlet and asks,
“Are you happy with the information?”
What sort of question is that? The
parents nod. She then asks if they are
happy for her to go ahead and vaccinate
their baby and they eagerly say yes.
I did not know that I was NOT happy with
the Health Department information, until
I found all the information they had NOT
told me, in their own medical
journals. Two years before, I too would
have just believed what I was told.
The disease section of the DVD, tells
parents ONLY the worst possible case
scenarios about what might happen if a
child gets any of the diseases
"covered". (Love the use of the word
"covered". More "framing"!)
Parents will not know that for all the
diseases mentioned, the majority of
people who contract them will not
experience any of the clinical symptoms
spoken about.
Parents WILL think that if their child
gets the disease, they WILL suffer
serious complications and/or die.
Does this DVD inform parents honestly about the real issues surrounding the diseases, and the vaccines, that they need to know? No.
Does it brain wash parents
into assuming these diseases all maim
and will cause problems in their child
if they don't have the vaccine?
Yes.
Does it condition parents to
assume that vaccinating is a no-brainer
and that if you love your child, you
will immunise your children?
Yes.
Does it infer that parents who
don't vaccinate their children are
irresponsible?
Yes.
What does this DVD
really do?
It conditions parents to submit to peer
"knowledge", and follow the herd. It’s
puts the IMAC/MoH slant on the words
choice… i.e.
you chose to immunise your children. To
the MoH/IMAC, choice is not about a
'yes' or a 'no'. There are a couple of
places where lip service is given to the
word "no", but the total message is not
about informed decision making. It’s
all about
herd
compliance, peer pressure, and social
conformity.
In the booklet with the DVD (which
parents will not see) called "Educator's
Guide", the back page has a heading:
Informed consent.
In that paragraph the booklet says that
it is a parent’s choice to immunise
their child
or not.
It also says that,
“The doctor or nurse will check that
parents have sufficient information to
make a decision about whether or not to
immunise their child.”
In my experience and opinion, few
practice nurses or doctors are in a
position to give both sides of the
story, because they are contracted TO
immunise, their practice immunisation
returns are dependant upon their
compliance with MoH policy, and most of
them only read the pamphlets and
information handed to them by IMAC.
Neither will parents have sufficient
information for an informed choice after
reading the Health
Department Immunisation Handbook
2006. Key concepts important for
parents have NOT been discussed in that
book either.
Why has the Ministry of Health put out a
DVD based on emotional blackmail
concepts? Because medical studies have
shown, when parents are just given the
cold hard facts with no emotional
blackmail, immunisation rates drop, not
rise. Medical studies also show
that when thinking parents are given ALL
the information, they often decide NOT
to vaccinate.
This DVD, and the accompanying MoH
pamphlets are designed with one thing
only in mind.
Community coerced compliance.
That is all.
Oh, one final thing.
Don’t ask questions of Execam, Wiremu
Grace or Heather Kizito about why the
debate was framed in such a
condescending, ignorant or insulting
manner, because they were just earning
their bucks; the footage is copyrighted
to MoH; and the back of the DVD refers
all questions to the MoH... which is
exactly where they should be directed.
It's not fair to shoot at the shovels
who put the message together.
And of course, the MoH will stand on the
Fallacy of Authority to shut up any
questioners.
After all, what Med School did you go to?