Media calls the Shots

ILLAWARRA MERCURY REMOVES LINK TO DISQUS FORUM AND TECHNICALLY SHUTS DOWN DEBATE AFTER ONLINE COMMENT IS PUBLISHED!

Dear Editor, you allow people in your forum to insult people like me who are opposed to vaccines i.e. new age idiots, impress dummies and so forth. If you are going to remove my remarks, then edit out the insults to us too. Mortality from Cervical Cancer is non-existent for women under the ages of 19 years of age, most mortality from this disease is in women over the ages of 40 and the other main group is women over 70 years of age, statistics provided come from government departments. Abbott wasn't dumb for not wanting to vaccinate his girls. I even provide the link and you still removed the comment. Is there anywhere people can hear the truth? NO!!! Why? Bill Gates pushes vaccines globally; Google is now the arbiter of truth, i.e. not allowed to rank sites that go against vaccines globally, including scientific research that opposes it. The best opposition to the truth is the media. Murdoch Daily Telegraph (2013) is responsible for instigating No Jab No Pay, No play (pushing unsubstantiated claims that unvaccinated children caused outbreaks of diseases) and oddly enough James Murdoch was the director Glaxo Kline and Smith until 2012. I won't be surprised if you remove this comment too. 

This response was published online for 5 hours (20/1/2016), then later that day the DISQUS forum link was removed. Original article titled 'No Jab, No Pay is now in Play 'written by 5/1/2016 by Lisa Wachsmuth, online titled  'Vaccinate, or forgo family and childcare payments'.  

Illawarra Mercury - below email response to an unsolicited comment published 5/1/2016 by Lisa Wachsmuth, Health Editor of the Illawarra Mercury.

From: Lisa Wachsmuth 

Sent: Wednesday, 6 January 2016 8:42 AM

To: Healthy Families of Illawarra

Subject: Re: Illawarra Mercury - where do I have a say in your article? Are you against free speech?

Hi Patricia, I had to fit a lot of information into that article, plus the comments of four people. I wanted to make the point that some people opposed the policy and used a comment you had sent to us regarding the policy which summed that up. I simply had no room to outline your whole stance in this article, that's not to say there won't be follow ups where that may be possible. I had a look at your website which seems to be an anti-vaccination website - I'm happy to remove those words from our online story? Indeed if you want your whole comment removed from the online version, I can do that too. This is obviously a very emotive issue for people and when I write articles on it I try and keep them simple and outline the facts and some different peoples views. I include politicians comments as these are our region's chosen representatives. Thanks, Lisa Wachsmuth.

Sent from my iPhone

On 5 Jan 2016, at 9:50 pm, Healthy Families of Illawarra> wrote: 

Re - There are some opponents to the policy, such as Illawarra resident Patricia Bohackyj, who runs an anti-vaccination website.

Hello Lisa,

I don’t understand why you didn’t try to interview me and balance the truth in your article.  I have made this point clear before, that I had initially vaccinated my children until I found that they harmed my children, there is plenty of medical literature to support my stance that vaccines are ineffective, cause outbreaks, injury and death.  There is no truth medically that herd immunity exists, it is an assumption. The assumption has gradually increased over the years from 70% to 95% percent; you will not find any published factual medical article that has researched this phenomenon. The NO Jab NO Pay policy now pressures parents not to delay vaccinations even if their children are sick, this should be a concern for all parents as adverse reactions are unlikely to be considered if a child has an existing medical condition and or an acute illness. The fundamental truth is that this is a Social Services Bill; it has nothing to do with an epidemic or a Health Department alert. It is a pity that you didn’t state my website Healthy Families of Illawarra in your article, so people could see that I am one of these intelligent educated parents that the government has said repeatedly that make up the 1.7 percent of conscientious objectors who have legitimate fears against a coercive and manipulative vaccination policy, which is now permanently linked to welfare with no legal provisions to object on any grounds (except medical – now tightly regulated) and it is also discriminatory in regard to declaring a child’s status before they are permitted to enter preschool or child care.  

You interviewed the other people in your article, but you didn’t interview me except you published a quote with no reference to where you got it. You are a health editor, so you should know that Tetanus is not contagious.  If you really researched your information, then you would also publish factual information about diseases like polio and diphtheria. Polio still exists; its eradication was not by vaccination but by reclassification. Also, why do you allow people like politicians to slant people for understanding that they have a fundamental right to object to a medical procedure? I am extremely disappointed that you quoted me as ‘Illawarra resident Patricia Bohackyj, who runs an anti-vaccination website.’ I provide an Information only website, which discusses vaccination decisions and explicitly explains rights and obligations regarding these procedures for entitlements to welfare linked to vaccination status.  Vaccination is a choice that should not be forcibly given to a child or an adult, the terms to legally vaccinate an individual with a Valid Consent 2.1.3 (10th Edition Immunisation Handbook).  No Jab, No Pay, and in some states also, No Play Policy, is a violation of this right to a valid consent if there are no legal provisions to refuse vaccinations if the person is in need of Centrelink payments linked to vaccination status.

Patricia Bohackyj, 

Healthy Families of Illawarra