Jeni Barnett LBC MMR show transcriptPart 1
JB1.mp30.00 to 7.01 minutesJB: Now, it's cold, it's miserable, lots of us are snuffling, lots ofus have got viruses, some of us will be affected by it, some of uswon't. Every single time we come round again to 'measles epidemic' or'infection rates rise in Europe" my first thought is: I'm anindependent, individual human being, I have raised a biological childand two logical children. Sometimes their responses to things wereworse than others, sometimes children around them had a response thatwas worse than mine, than my kids. The fact is, the notion that we'reall the same, that you have to be inoculating children with this MMRjab, this debate is going to go on for ever and ever and always at theback of it, in my head is 'hold on a minute, there's a drug companythat's making lots of money out of it'. And I always get reallyanxious when I hear the you know now that we've got 'Banishing measles*TIMESTAMP: 1.00*from Europe in 2010 may have been dashed by poor vaccinations rates ina handful of countries'. you cannot have your cake and eat it. Youcannot be putting rubbish and carp in food endlessly and looking at therise of asthma and obesity and then turn round and not say look what'shappening with measles. You have to approach the whole thing at thehealth of our children and the health of our society. Now back in theday (and that's an expression I've learned from my [unclear] son), backin the day, children got measles, children got mumps. I'm notsuggesting - I am not suggesting - that we got backwards where somechildren, where we have one in fifteen children die of it. And thatone person in fifteen is the one we have to be looking at and wonderingwhy and dealing with it. But if, as a human being, you decide you donot want to give your child a vaccination, you should, in a democracy,have that right to day no.*TIMESTAMP: 2.00*There are some children - whether you like it or whether you do not -that have a response to that triple jabbing that is not good for them.We have evidence, however much people say we don't, we have evidencethat if a child's immune system is weak; my daughter was one of them,she was very asthmatic as a child, she could not have received thattriple vaccine, she couldn’t have done it so I made a calculateddecision that I didn't want to go there. and it isn't a decisionthat's made easily, it's a lonely decision, if you're not part of theherd, if your' not mooing with the other cows or baaing with the othersheep, if you wanting to stand alone, it's a very lonely businessstanding under a tree in a field all on your own saying 'I don't wantto do that'. So I want you to phone me and tell me why you decidedagainst the vaccine and how you're coping with people saying 'See!You're the reason, you are the reason we haven't banished measles'. Ihad that said to me by doctor in Canada: 'You haven't had your chidvaccinated?*TIMESTAMP: 3.00*
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