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Food & Water, Nope. Vaccines, Yep.

July 24, 2012 by admin in Vaccines with 12 Comments

This inspirational pictorial essay documents the insanity of vaccinating people who don’t have the basic needs of life.   

Baby with measles in bathby Gianelloni

Before I went to Uganda, I knew all about Bill Gates and his billion dollar vaccine campaign. I had read the stories of him going into remote African villages and vaccinating children with the measles vaccine at gunpoint. I knew about the thousands of cases of children in India becoming paralyzed after receiving his polio vaccines. I’ve researched the African children coming down with the mysterious “nodding” disease immediately after vaccination. I’ve listened to the interviews where Bill Gates calls his vaccine campaign “population control”.
But like most things, we don’t really believe it until we actually see it.

During my time in Uganda, I saw it.

It wasn’t 10 minutes down the road from the airport, that I saw all the big banners hanging. Bill Gates vaccine campaign had been in town the week earlier. Big posters reading “Any child under 5 can come get free polio & measles vaccines”. Woo-hoo. Nice, I thought.  Well at least that happened the week before. I did not want to witness it.

And then I witnessed it. 

We spent one of our days in a village in a remote area, at the home of a young lady who raises 26 orphaned kids. She also runs a school with about 96 kids.

This is the land, the home, and the school:

The land, the mission, and the school

The skitThe students did a skit for us. They held up signs that represented their current childhood epidemics. Yellow Fever, Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Diarrhea, etc.. then the skit showed how the body fights sickness through white blood cells. One of the kids was the “white blood cell body guard” that protected the body. It was a very cute skit and informative.

None of the children held up signs that said “Autism” or “Asthma” or “Allergies” or “ADHD”. Or any other autoimmune disorder that is currently affecting 1 in 6 American children.

The skit, againThe children in Uganda also don’t receive 49 doses of 14 vaccines.

They also didn’t hold up signs that said “Whooping Cough” or “Measles” or “Polio” or “Chicken Pox” or “Hep B”. Nope. None of those.

The children in these remote villages are sick and dying from malnutrition and unsanitary living conditions. They are not dying from undervaccination and they are certainly not injured from over-vaccination.

They simply need Food, Water, & Sanitation.

Where they bathe

Water …

They drink the same water they bathe in.

Sanitation …

That water comes from dirty stagnant water sources. They bathe on a dirt floor.

They eat outside on the same dirt floor.

Food …

The photo below shows the outdoor kitchen where the children eat ONE meal a day.

The kitchen, where they eat their only daily meal

And the naked little girl was suffering from measles. I asked why.

 

I was told that someone came into the village 2 weeks prior and gave the kids measles vaccines. Now the little girl has measles. They kept putting her in a tub of water to help with the itching. It was truly heartbreaking to witness.

With no medical means to care for her illness, they are left to deal with the aftermath of what we call “preventative healthcare”. Ha!

Baby with measles in bath

I don’t care who you are or what side of the vaccine philosophy you fall under, there is no logic in the world that can explain going into a remote village with children who only eat one meal a day and have never had clean drinking water … and giving them a vaccine. Seriously?

Water systemThink about it. Can you imagine walking up to this precious little girl and saying: ”I know you are starving, but here is a measles vaccine instead. I promise this will make you much healthier than food or water”.

It’s a scary day when simple logic no longer exists.

Food & Water, nope. Vaccines, yep.

And innocent children suffer the consequences.

The cowIt’s absurd.

Here’s what we did. We showed them what preventative healthcare really looks like.

We gave them a water system (shown above).

And we gave them a cow and a year’s worth of rice & beans.

And we painted their finger nails. Because little girls want to feel loved and pretty.

Painting fingernails
Little girl with measlesAnd we loved on the little girl with measles and tried to help her stop itching.They want to know people really do care about them.

They don’t want to walk around their remote villages hungry, and the only people who show up are people who are there to stick a needle in their arm and make them sick.

Every now and then, when I write a post, I’m just plain mad.I like to refer to it as Righteous Anger.

This is a Righteous Anger post. …

“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,
 for the rights of all who are destitute.
Speak up and judge fairly;
defend the rights of the poor and needy”
—Proverbs 31: 8-9

The original post is here.

The Gianelloni Family

The Gianelloni Family

The Gianelloni 6 is a family of missionaries sharing their experiences in Uganda. They describe themselves this way:

Over the span of 5 quick years, we grew to a family of 6. This blog is about our family. Each family experiences and interprets life differently. This is our life as we know it! We invite you into our lives to learn, grow, & be encouraged. We hope to provide inspiration and perspective. We will be honest and share truth. 

We won’t forget to add humor. And we will always strive to glorify God in everything we do!

Please, visit the Gianelloni’s site and make a donation!

 

 

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  • http://twitter.com/VaccineRisks Vaccine Risks

    This inspiring article about a wonderful family’s kindness and understanding really pulls at the heartstrings. It gets the message over better than a thousand peer reviewed studies.

    Building up of immunity by having access to clean water, sanitation, good nutrition, pure air and shelter is the way towards decline of infectious diseases. Nope to vaccines!

    From:
    http://vactruth.com/2011/12/06/vaccines-verse-and-worse/

    For all our children to be well and strong,
    giving them vaccines is really wrong.

    To help the children of the world
    we must all be aware:
    that they need clean water and good food,
    shelter and pure air.

    Then all the children
    will be strong and healthy,
    – tho’ the vaccine promoters won’t be so wealthy!

  • Cwaldman

    I have read that the first year of mass vaccination of American schoolchildren with measles vaccine was1963.  I got the measles that year, in first grade.  I have always wondered if more kids got measles that year than in prior years, from all that live virus shedding.  Thanks for this post. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Deborah-Lynne-Downs/1388378462 Deborah Lynne Downs

    One little girl with measles…if indeed it was measles…but no children with high fever, encephalitis, brain damage, loss of hearing or eye sight…nor death…all things that I saw before measles vaccination became standard…and none who will suffer these things, as so many did previously in this country and across the world as they have been vaccinated and have a better chance at building their immune systems…Thousands of children who were not malnourished nor living without clean water and sanitation…You choose to omit that the Gates foundation feeds hungry children, funds sanitation and water projects, provides live stock and supports local farmimg across the area with both funding and education to promote, local, sustainable living…You don’t sound angry at all…you sound disingenuous….There is no connection…none, between vaccinations and autism…but some people are simply hardwired to deny the truth, and to embrace conspiracy theories…It seems to be an evolutionary mechanism…(There are peer reviewed studies for that, which you can peshaw! as well) no matter the evidence…I applaud your work, I honestly do…but I also think that people like you are dangerous, that you misdirect others and give them half truths deliberately, that shouted laud and long enough, they begin to seem like truths…(another proven fact)…You see, I am genuinely angry…because such narcissism in the face of truths other than your own hurts children…

    • http://www.facebook.com/becky.hastings.CT Becky Hastings

      I’d love to compare the amount of money the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation spends on vaccinations versus the essentials they provide in the same communities as you mention in your post.  I guess there are people on the other side of the argument who could possibly say many of the same things about you – about blindly believing what people tell you and purveying half truths. Both sides make bold assertions. The biggest reason I’m skeptical of the pro-vaccination camp has to do with all the money being made by big pharmaceutical firms. It’s really hard to believe people who have so much vested interest.  The whole medical community seems less and less believable.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Deborah-Lynne-Downs/1388378462 Deborah Lynne Downs

        You can find that information, Becky…and lots more if you really want to find it…Even Bill Gates detractors, like Huffington Post writers whose main complaint is fear that the foundation is too big and too powerful, nearly to an article begrudgingly concede that the foundation does more good that bad at least at present…But you’ve got nothing to lose by looking at the Gates Foundation Website, too…Of course it could all be lies…but they are a fairly transparent group…their CEO for example admits that making sure that grant money is spent in the most beneficial way is a difficult problem and they voluntarily use an independent watchdog group to rate the performance of those grants…for this is how the organization works…through a grant process…Here is what perplexes me…The problems we face are gargantuan…and such plodding progress has been made in alleviating the plight of the poor the world over…Lest you doubt this, study the UN…like it or not, at this point in human evolution it takes money to provide, food, healthcare, clean water, and education for disadvantaged people…Even the good folks that this blog is about ask for donations…And yet, when anyone does step up, we who are giving little more that lip service to our compassion become embroilied in arguments about what is the best way to keep a child right in front of us from dying…and when the child dies while we argue, then we blame everyone but ourselves for her death…Here is how gargantuan the problem is…600 billion dollars, about what the Gates Foundation is currently worth, could only affect about 5 percent of the HIV cases alone just in Africa…The other thing is…All rich people are not evil…They just are not…and while we all know that generalizations are harmful…We turn to them every time we don’t understand something…I Have done my homework…and I don’t rely much on the mainstream media…because guess what, their main concern is selling advertizing…Their main concern is money…I do read lots of blogs…from all sources…and if you do you become adept at spotting underlying agendas…usually it is the omissions that give folks away…Just as here…Didn’t you think it strange that the measles were itchy…I had every known kind of measles when I was child…They were not itchy…chicken pox were…One of my grandmother’s babies died from red measles…My husband’s oldest brother nearly did, but survived to suffer mental disabilities so that he now must be cared for in a facility…I wish they’d had measles vaccines back then…Peace…

        • HeidiStevenson

          Who turns to rich people when he/she doesn’t understand something?!  Huh?

          You had “every known kind of measles”? Excuse me? There is one disease called measles. Not every non-chicken pox rash is measles! And yes, measles does itch – terribly so. I had measles – it itched like mad. 
          So-called red measles is German measles, rubella – a completely different disease and extremely mild, except in its possible risk to the baby of a woman during early pregnancy. Rubella can cause disabilities in babies born to mothers who had it during pregnancy. It does not cause disabilities in children who get it, though it can very rarely cause encephalitis in adults. (The information here about how mild the disease is comes straight from the CDC: 
          http://www.cdc.gov/features/rubella/)Of course it takes money to provide the basic necessities – but what point is there in throwing money at vaccines for people who don’t have the basics? There are such things as priorities and those are ignored when money is spent on vaccines instead of the basics of life. “Here, we’ll stick this needle in your arm to prevent measles. Sorry your belly is swollen from hunger. If you survive, maybe we’ll bring some food next time.”

          • http://www.facebook.com/people/Deborah-Lynne-Downs/1388378462 Deborah Lynne Downs

            Huh?…respectfully, read more carefully please…I said we turn to generalities when we don’t understand something…Additionally, not understanding how grants work, you might believe that there was no will to feed the people in this village…But you seem to think that Bill Gates marched into that village, gathered up the children and vaccinated them himself…He didn’t…His organization addressed a need through a grant that some group applied for…Just like for a clean water plant, contraception, HIV education, sustainable farming, and the many other things for which grants could be used…Perhaps the people working there now could do the same…Your link either is temporarily down or “has been removed”…I will try again later…but no where have I seen itching as a symptom of measles…Perhaps you infer itching from rash…Before there were vaccines there were 4 or 5 strains of measles…The main concern now is Rubella/German measles, once called 3 day measles which can cause birth defects for the infants of pregnant women…There is also Rubeloa, once called ten day measles,,,It was also possible to have these measles more than once…And there is roseola that mainly infants contract…Now, few children get the measles, and of those who do, complications are rare because of vaccines…I had all 3 but I don’t remember the roseola, because my mother said I was a little over a year old….Before there were  vaccines…most children got the measles…Thus more children with complications…so many that most people knew of a family who had lost a child or a child who had survived the complications of measles…as in my family and my husband’s…In 1980 our infant daughter was hospitalized for a good portion of her first year…at that time I knew of 4 children who had sever complications from measles, chicken pox, or meningitis..these included, loss of hearing and eye sight, and brain damage…and for one little girl first amputation and then death from menengitis…there are vaccines now for all of these…Its fairly safe to say that had those vaccines been routine at the time…those chidren would have fared better and and the little 5 year old would have lived….It is going to take us all to solve these problems, missionaries and billionaires…skepticism is great…but sometimes skepticism is really bigotry…the most difficult thing to do is change our own opinions…and you see…over the course of 30 years, I have changed my opinion…most people want to help other people…I did not always believe that…

          • HeidiStevenson

            Your accusations of not reading carefully are ridiculous. First, you clearly didn’t read what I wrote. Second, when you can’t even do a paragraph break to assist your reader in figuring out what you’ve said – and produce one big run-on sentence, then you have a lot of gall expecting anyone to read what you wrote. (But I did, anyway.)

            How grants work is irrelevant to this topic. Gates could give grants to whomever he chooses. The WHO could choose to consider water problems a health issue – but they specifically do not. (http://www.gaia-health.com/articles151/000190-mass-vaccinations-in-haiti.shtml – next to the last paragraph)

            Gates chose to provide vaccinations, not food or water or sanitation. It has absolutely nothing to do with grants. Your argument here is beyond absurd.

            You say that itch isn’t a symptom of measles!?  Medline states:  ”The main symptom of measles is an itchy skin rash. ” (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/measles.html)

            Rubeola is the disease referred to as measles. Rubella is not the measles. It’s alternately referred to under different names – but the measles vaccine has nothing to do with rubella. The first M in the MMR vaccine refers to measles. The R refers to rubeola, German or red measles. Measles is a single disease. 

            That’s as far as I’m going in what you wrote. It’s pure, utter nonsense. You mix diseases up and make up your facts as they suit you. You make no sense whatsoever.  

  • Jennydiez

    Bill Gates is a huge fan of eugenics. People really need to do some research on just what this is and why it is such a dangerous ideal to live by.  Need more information?:  http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/index.html

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Deborah-Lynne-Downs/1388378462 Deborah Lynne Downs

      That is simply untrue…In fact, it was the earliest “progressives” who supported eugenics in the early part of the last century…and there are a number of them who still support it today, some of whom have had our president’s ear…some who support not granting “personhood” to infants for varying times following birth…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Deborah-Lynne-Downs/1388378462 Deborah Lynne Downs

    Heidi…I did not realize that I was dealing with an irrational person. My apologies…Again…Your links don’t work…

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