VACCINES: There Is No Answer.

If only we shared as much love on Facebook as we do divisive and oversimplified vaccination memes. IF ONLY.

AUTISM LINK. HERD IMMUNITY. Yes. I know. But see those people on the other side of the fence? They also want their kids alive and healthy. BUT WE'RE IN AN OVERPOPULATED WORLD WITH DISEASES THAT MUTATE AND THIS SH*T IS HARD TO MANAGE.

But it's also straightforward in a way. No amount of justified distrust of big pharma can make the following statements untrue. Vaccines are not guaranteed to work. But that doesn't mean they never work. Vaccines contain toxins. But that doesn't mean they will always cause harm.

The human body has a system to deal with toxins. But sometimes the detoxification system will fail to do its job. So sometimes vaccines will cause harm or death. Definitely not always.

The human body has a system to deal with diseases. But sometimes the immune system will fail to do its job. So sometimes diseases will cause harm or death. Definitely not always.

So let me quickly get real about what that means.

You truly do not know whether your child would be saved or harmed by a vaccine. You can guess. You can somewhat educatedly guess. But you do not know.

Because the data needed to get a precise risk analysis? It is extremely broad. And there are some big unkowns that can make all the difference to your individual situation.

First let's weigh the risk of disease. We have to know the likelihood of contraction in vaccinated persons relative to those unvaccinated. Then we have to know the likelihood of permanent damage or mortality when contracted. Those statistics exist. If you ask me, they're fuzzy as sh*t because they hinge on decades of data and how the eff do you account for population growth, sanitation conditions, other medical developments, and general health? Or even random sh*t like how antibacterial hand soap is affecting human immune systems and germ strength?

But still, we get statistically maybe-somewhat-accurate trends. But even so. Relying on probability to determine your risk is inherently inaccurate for an individual when one single occurrence can instantaneously turn the numbers the way that only contagious diseases can.

And the other side of the equation is an equal b*tch to compute. Vaccine injury and death rates exist. And here you have some more fuzzy as sh*t numbers because are they under-reported by doctors or over-reported since the timing of vaccines coincides with that of symptom onset for neurological problems that occur even without vaccines?

But maybe they give us some general idea. But then we get M. Night Shyamalaned again. Because can you read your genetic code? Me either. And toxin exposure from sources other than vaccines? Maybe you have a general sense of your child's, but how much BPA did those kids in the statistics chew on before they got vaccinated? And how much GMO food did they eat? No one's controlling for that. And if one does control for BPA or GMO or OPP (yeah you know... nevermind) exposure, what about all the toxins they don't even know about? The ones in non-BPA plastic that they haven't studied yet? The ones in perfume? All the ones in all the places that you'll only know about in twenty years? And are they ever even going to try to isolate the variable of those increasingly flashy HD strobe lights marketed as educational television? These other toxins matter. It's science.

What you end up with is two amorphous gray blobs on each side of the scale. But hey, it's great for you if you can convince yourself that it's a big black mass against a tiny white spec. Peace of mind. Enjoy it.

But it'd be better for our collective peace if we all just recognize that it's a crap shoot. On the count of three, let's all stop pretending our guesses are answers, and just respect each other's guesses.

Because get ready. Sh*t's about to get cray.

First. Any brain scientist will tell you that what people may label an "instinct" is actually the result of your brain's unconscious observations and synthesis of said observations.

Second. If you haven't watched the documentary I Am, go do it. It explains the very very real reality that information is transferred in ways other than through our senses and conscious mind. This isn't trippy, this is modern physics. Okay. Maybe it's both. But, for reals, molecules are connected in ways we LITERALLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND (and when I say we, I mean physicists too, because I have so much in common with them). As such, information is passed via electromagnetic fields. And in case you didn't know, the heart's electromagnetic field is FIVE THOUSAND times the size of the brain.

So all I'm gonna say is this. What if all of us moms were making the right decisions for our kids and we didn't even know it? What if, collectively, we were unconsciously avoiding every avoidable instance of neurological damage and death? And here's the big one: What if we all just assume that to be true?