Vaccines which use thimerosal (a mercury compound) as a preservative revolve around the assumption - one unfounded by science - that ethylmercury, a compound the body metabolizes thimerosal to (alongside thiosalicylate), shares a toxicity level equal to methylmercury. The EPA guidelines recommend limiting mercury to 0.1 micrograms per kilogram of body weight per day, based on studies concerning a case of methlymercury poisoning in eighty-one Iraqi children. The FDA's guidelines recommend a maximum daily mercury intake of 0.4 micrograms per kilogram of body weight. There exist vaccines which contain up to 25 micrograms of mercury per 0.5 millilitre dosage, meaning a twenty-pound child (weighing 9.07 kilograms), following one of the dozens of vaccines he or she is required to take, would cause an overdose of nearly 28x according to the EPA's guidelines, and nearly 7x according to the FDA's guidelines.
Following the autism explosion (autism in the United States between 1992-1993 and 2000-2001 increased 644% amongst children on average), and congressman Frank Pallone's successful amendment to the FDA's reauthorization bill requiring the FDA to "compile a list of drugs and foods that contain intentionally introduced mercury compounds and [to] provide a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the mercury compounds in the list", many vaccine manufacturers began to significantly reduce or altogether remove thimerosal as a preservative. What is interesting to note is how mercury poisoning and autism have incredibly similar characteristics, such as psychiatric disorders, disturbances, abnormalities, motor disorders, cognitive impairments, immune dysfunctions, gastrointestinal problems, sensory impairments, epilepsy, and gender targeting. Interestingly enough, urine samples from autistic patients revealed high levels of sulfate despite low blood levels. Similarly, mercury and other heavy metals disturb the sulfate transport mechanism in the body, damaging sulfate retention (especially at the level of the kidneys) almost completely. This causes an excessive loss of sulfate.
But whether thimerosal is removed completely from vaccinations or not has no bearing on whether vaccinations should be legally mandated. Based on T. H. White's The Once and Future King, totalitarianism has come to be defined as, "everything not forbidden is compulsory". This is how I view the subject of mandatory vaccinations. Problems encountered with mandatory vaccinations not related to totalitarianism and other ideas revolving around population reduction methods would include accidents. One such example would come from early 2009, when an Illinois-based pharmaceutical company, Baxter International Inc., was caught shipping vaccinations to eighteen countries which contained live avian bird flu viruses. Remember, except for very few geographical exceptions regarding specific types of vaccines, you do not have to be vaccinated. Considering the great suspicion and distaste which exists within a growing majority of Americans toward Obama and his health care policies, it would take a massive effort to legally mandate vaccinations in the United States. Plus, Americans still have their guns, and I wish the best of luck to whomever attempts to vaccinate an angry individual with a gun. What always peaks my interest about mandatory vaccination debates is how the state would vaccinate individuals and their children who do not wish to be vaccinated. Would the state use the police force to tranquilize such individuals and temporarily kidnap their children? And for every vaccination people are encouraged to take by various public health agencies with differing guidelines? Hardly practical and nearly impossible to pull off against a well-armed public.
