Where did the other half go?

The New York Times recently reported on a statistic released by the CDC that there have been 131 reported cases of measles in 2008. That number is up from the 42 total cases reported in 2007. The CDC also stated that half of the reported cases of measles this year were from unvaccinated, home schooled children.

Where did the other half go?

If half of the reported cases were unvaccinated and home schooled, what is the classification of the other half….? They are obviously vaccinated and must be public (or private) schooled. Why not report that half of the 131 measles cases were vaccinated? Why spin it to the unvaccinated population?

Point number two, why report this at all? There are 300 million people living in the United States. Why report that 131 out of 300 million people have the measles? That is 1 in 3 million people! Another way to report this is that as of 2008 you have a .0000001% chance of contracting the measles. Is this really news worthy?

Especially when the MMR vaccine has been linked to Autism. In CT the Autism rate about is 1 in 65 kids. Which is the highest in the nation. CT also has the highest vaccination rate in the nation. It is well over 90%.

In my experience the unvaccinated population learns faster, has better co-ordination, better cognitive and problem solving skills, next to no asthma rate. They don’t jitter, squirm or have colic. They don’t have ADD and they tend to express life fuller than their vaccinated counterparts.

But the CDC won’t tell you that because they are too busy promoting epidemics that don’t exist.