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Aliss Terpstra's avatar

Re: measles. I know there is no point in yelling at the TV because they can't hear you, but yesterday while watching reruns of Call The Midwife I just couldn't stop myself. I never saw this series for the psy-op it really is when I first watched it on PBS years ago. In season 8 episode 5 (I think... not sure because I got so blind with rage) Dr. Turner sets up an experimental measles vaccine trial and tasks the clinic midwives with drumming up participants, children ten months of age and up. They do so by scaring the shit out of mothers with half truths about measles (which in East End London by 1964 was not at all the lethal childhood infection that it was in Victorian times). They do not mention vitamin A, or that any of the mothers who had measles themselves as kids have passed long lasting immunity to their infants up to age four years. So why was the trial set up to vaccinate babies for measles at ten months of age when their risk was essentially nil even in one of the poorest parts of London? And the show, which purports to be historically accurate, omits the historical fact that the first experimental killed vaccines caused severe illness, permanent disability and death, and were withdrawn. The early live attenuated ones were not much better. In the episode, one nervous panicked mother gets hysterical because her seven month old child does not qualify for the trial. She had lost her first baby at eight months of age who "just died" and no cause was found. Hmm. What vaccines were 8 month old babies getting from the NHS back in 1962? Diphtheria? Tetanus? Pertussis? Polio? Smallpox? What was the measles mortality incidence for ten month old babies in 1963 that would lead a researcher to believe a vaccine was necessary at this age? Anyway, second baby gets a rash, mom goes wild with fear that baby is dying of measles, mad as heck because it should have been prevented by that shot she wasn't allowed to get, and Dr. Turner is SO reassuring that it's just roseola, Sixth Disease, a mild self limiting harmless virus infection. (Like measles in 1964). I am still fuming.

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Big E's avatar

The link for Dr. Lindley's video isn't live. Could it be this one? https://x.com/KLVeritas/status/1902465569468633136

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